US Secretary of State doubles down on backing aerial coca spraying in Colombia

[TomSea]

US Secretary of State doubles down on backing aerial coca spraying in Colombia
by Jack Norman

The US still strongly supports the resumption of aerial spraying of pesticide on Colombian coca fields, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a Senate panel Tuesday.

Without mentioning any other strategy for reducing coca production and without acknowledging growing global criticism of the pesticide glyphosate, Pompeo told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control that spraying “is an important tool they need” to reduce Colombian coca production.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court banned spraying of glyphosate in 2015, after research by the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded it probably caused cancer in humans.

Read more at: https://colombiareports.com/us-secretary-of-state-doubles-down-on-backing-aerial-spraying-of-coca-fields/

The article goes on to say the current president of Colombia, Duque, does want the spraying to resume. The Court there needs to rule on this.

[dfwgator]

Well it will sure drive up the price of Cocaine.

Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money!