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Colombia's Changing Approach to Drug Policy
Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1
Peace and Counternarcotics..................................................................................................... 4
The Drug Trafficking Partial Agreement............................................................................... 4
Colombia's 2015 Counternarcotics Policy: A Shift in Approach? ............................................... 6
Selected Elements of the Drug Strategy ...................................................................................... 8
Coca Cultivation and Coca Eradication ................................................................................. 8
Eradication and U.S. Drug Policy ........................................................................................ 12
Supply Reduction: Policy Alternatives to Aerial Eradication? ............................................ 14
Interdiction........................................................................................................................ 15
A lternative D evelopm ent ............................................................................................... 15
Colombia's Other Armed Groups and Future Drug Trafficking .......................................... 17
Policy Issues for Congress............................................................................................................. 18
Funding Trends and U.S.-Colombian Counterdrug Cooperation......................................... 19
State Department Counternarcotics Foreign Assistance ............................................... 19
Department of Defense Counternarcotics Authorities and Funding ............................. 20
Colombia and Regional Counternarcotics Efforts............................................................... 21
Outlook.......................................................................................................................................... 22
Figures
Figure 1. Map of Colombia Showing Departments and Capital ................................................. 2
Figure 2. Historical Cocaine Production and Coca Cultivation in Colombia............................. 10
Figure 3. Coca Cultivation in Colombia (2000-2015)............................................................... 12
Figure 4. Colombian-Trained Third-Country Security Forces ................................................. 22
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Author Contact Information ..................................................................................................... 23Congressional Research Service
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Beittel, June S. & Rosen, Liana W. Colombia's Changing Approach to Drug Policy, report, March 10, 2017; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc980544/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.