Adam Isacson
Adam Isacson
bad bizarre means opposition relations selling
It's a bizarre working at cross- purposes. You have bad relations with this government, and you're selling them the means to put down opposition protests.
deterred economic people
People with no economic alternatives have not been deterred by fumigation.
easier elsewhere fund programs
It may make it easier to fund demobilization and re-integration programs elsewhere in the world.
blows bolivia next quite time
the next time Bolivia blows up I think they'll be used quite a bit.
billion plan spent talking
You're talking about $4.7 billion spent on Plan Colombia, and this is all we have to show for it?
cut economic except farmers fields flights forests grow production reduced somewhere spray
Coca production was not going to be reduced just because fumigation flights spray some fields as long as these farmers don't have any other economic options, except to cut down forests to grow coca somewhere else.