Is Colombia's Renewed War On Drugs About To Get 'Ugly'?

Colombia Reports: Colombia’s renewed war on drugs could get ugly, and solve nothing

The war on drugs could get ugly in Colombia after the country’s new government said it would ignore crop substitution agreements made with 75,000 coca-growing families and send in the military.

Two days after taking office, Defense Minister Guillermo Botero said that the government would withdraw from the agreements made between the previous administration, the United Nations and the farmers in May last year.

Botero bluntly said that “voluntary substitution is over” and that he would return to forcible eradication and aerial fumigation, breaking yet another state promise made in a peace agreement with the FARC.

The new policy ignores the advice of the UN and local experts who have warned that the government again breaking its word could result in increased violence, without providing long-term solutions to a decades-old problem.

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WNU Editor: Colombia's war against drugs has always been ugly. I expect this "new war" will be just as "ugly".