Plan Colombia called dangerous failure

WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- The United States says it is winning the war on terrorism, but few officials argue it is winning the war on drugs.

Several government reports and experts on Capitol Hill say Plan Colombia, the U.S.-backed war on drugs in the South American nation, is failing, and some critics say the State
Department is mismanaging the operation.

The reports and experts argue bureaucrats and contractors have mismanaged the multibillion dollar program, which is administered through the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, in a
manner that leaves U.S. government employees and contractors at risk.

A report issued in June by the General Accounting Office found that despite getting $2.5 billion in U.S. aid specifically to fight narco-traffickers, Colombia is still the world's
largest producer of coca, the precursor to cocaine, and has expanded its production of opium poppy to become the largest supplier of heroin to the United States.

UPI

You mean spraying all sorts of poisonous chemicals on people and their livelihood ISN'T the best way to get them to join your team?!

I wonder how they'll try to salvage this, their proxy isn't exactly winning the civil war on top of this.

that might improve the situation is to decriminalize drugs
here in the USA. That would de-fund all the various
armies running around the country, and they would all
have to go find real jobs again. As it is, all the "criminals"
down there are rolling in drug dough, and so are most of the
armed forces and police. Of course, there is still kidnapping
and extortion, but maybe the cops would have time for that.