Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday said that his country will use drones to return to the aerial fumigation of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine. The country’s government…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos dismissed the possibility of returning to aerial fumigation to combat the skyrocketing production of coca crops in the country. The possibility was raised by Prosecutor…
Unable to curb a boom in cocaine production by manually eradicating coca, Colombia’s Prosecutor General asked counter-narcotics authorities to return to the highly controversial aerial spraying of coca fields. The proposal…
Colombia is seeking a less toxic herbicide to restart aerial fumigations of coca crops, the director of the national police said, after the Andean country halted spraying with the chemical…
Colombia will begin testing new herbicides’ effectiveness in destroying coca plants next week after glyphosate, the original chemical used in coca fumigation, was discovered to be likely carcinogenic and was…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General has joined a growing number of top officials who believe fumigating illicit crop fields with glyphosate should be suspended immediately because of potential health risks.
Colombia’s Health minister, Alejandro Gaviria, has asked for the banning of aerial fumigation after the World Health Organization (WHO) classified glyphosate, the chemical used, as likely carcinogenic.
The new labeling of the world’s most-popular weed killer as a likely cause of cancer is raising more questions for an aerial spraying program in Colombia that is the cornerstone…
Colombia may have violated its agreement with Ecuador to forgo aerial fumigation near its border, according to a report by the Ecuadorean Interagency Committee Against Fumigation, or CIF.