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Weekly Report - 8 November 2005
COLOMBIA: Colombia and the alternative to fumigation
Colombian Foreign Minister Carolina Barco has been trying out on a congressional committee the arguments she intends to deploy if Ecuador picks up her invitation to a 'frank' dialogue on drug crop eradication by fumigation. One is well known: that Colombia has verified none of the ill-effects of fumigation which Ecuador claims are visible along the common border. Another, more muted, is that the alternative to fumigation - manual eradication - requires a degree of security Colombia cannot yet provide along the border.
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