Timeline - Fumigation in Colombia

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Timeline - Fumigation in Colombia

1 October 2015

For 37 years Colombia has been spraying chemicals to combat illicit crops, particularly coca. These massive eradication programmes became part of the US-backed 'War on Drugs'. The fumigations are controversial for their proven inefficacy to reduce supply and demand and for the use of herbicides such as glyphosate.

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