US anti-drug campaign 'failing'
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winterbadgerUS drugs tsar John Walters has admitted that Washington's anti-narcotics policy in Latin America has so far failed.
Mr Walters said in Mexico that billions of dollars of investment over many years have failed to dent the flow of Latin American cocaine onto US streets.
"We have not yet seen in all these efforts what we're hoping for on the supply side, which is a reduction in availability," he said in Mexico City.
But he predicted positive results would be seen within a year.
Mr Walters was speaking just after he had visited Colombia, where US-backed efforts to wipe out drug-smuggling gangs and eradicate coca crops have turned the country into the world's third-largest recipient of US military aid.
However, in an interview with the Associated Press news agency, he defended the Plan Colombia aid package and insisted that it should continue.
full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3540686.stm
The Drug War has failed and three decades of arms and money haven't put a dent in the cocaine trade, but we should expect changes within 12 months with no chinge in policy. Right.
Mr Walters said in Mexico that billions of dollars of investment over many years have failed to dent the flow of Latin American cocaine onto US streets.
"We have not yet seen in all these efforts what we're hoping for on the supply side, which is a reduction in availability," he said in Mexico City.
But he predicted positive results would be seen within a year.
Mr Walters was speaking just after he had visited Colombia, where US-backed efforts to wipe out drug-smuggling gangs and eradicate coca crops have turned the country into the world's third-largest recipient of US military aid.
However, in an interview with the Associated Press news agency, he defended the Plan Colombia aid package and insisted that it should continue.
full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3540686.stm
The Drug War has failed and three decades of arms and money haven't put a dent in the cocaine trade, but we should expect changes within 12 months with no chinge in policy. Right.
