Lines in the Sand: A Week of Drug War Summits in South America
October 19, 2005
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The northern Colombian city of Santa Marta - and Colombian president Álvaro Uribe - played host this week to the 15th
Summit of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA) of Latin America and the Caribbean.
President Uribe, addressing the delegations of about forty nations, took the opportunity to bash the drug legalization
movement and demand that its neighbors to more to stop Colombian drugs from reaching consuming countries. Meanwhile, one
of those neighbors - Venezuela - made some blunt criticisms of Plan Colombia and joined another one of Uribe’s neighbors
- Ecuador - in complaining that the effects of the U.S.-sponsored crop fumigation program are spilling over the border
and causing environmental and other damages...
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From somewhere in a country called América,
Dan Feder
Managing Editor
The Narco News Bulletin