Once again, the United States certifies that it will continue to help Colombia with resources in its fight against drugs, but this time it will focus that aid on a point that has been difficult to consolidate in the country: combating the aircraft that take cocaine out of Colombian territory. clandestinely.
The announcement was made by the president of that country, Joe Biden, who stated: “it is necessary to interdict aircraft that are reasonably suspected of being mainly engaged in illicit drug trafficking in the airspace of that country, due to the extraordinary threat posed by illicit drug trafficking to Colombian national security.
In the words of the US president, Colombia has systems to protect the lives of civilians and people unrelated to this business when aircraft interdiction is carried out, that is, the interception, blockade or even the shooting down of a plane detected in the Colombian airspace loaded with cocaine or other drugs.
increased production
President Biden’s announcement comes just one month after the report on crops for illicit use in Colombia prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, was released, in which it was recorded that in the country there was a reduction of coca leaf plantations, but on the other hand, the production of illicit drugs increased.
UNODC data records that the decrease in cultivated areas was estimated at 7% less and went from 154,000 hectares in 2019 to 143,000 in 2020, while production rose 8% and in 2020 1,228 tons produced were recorded.
The announcement of the aid also comes after the inauguration of the new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who stated in the presidential campaign that the fight against drugs in Colombia has been a failure, and intends to rethink the strategies that would range from the continued use of glyphosate to voluntary eradication programs in the country
Once again, the United States certifies that it will continue to help Colombia with resources in its fight against drugs, but this time it will focus that aid on a point that has been difficult to consolidate in the country: combating the aircraft that take cocaine out of Colombian territory. clandestinely.
The announcement was made by the president of that country, Joe Biden, who stated: “it is necessary to interdict aircraft that are reasonably suspected of being mainly engaged in illicit drug trafficking in the airspace of that country, due to the extraordinary threat posed by illicit drug trafficking to Colombian national security.
In the words of the US president, Colombia has systems to protect the lives of civilians and people unrelated to this business when aircraft interdiction is carried out, that is, the interception, blockade or even the shooting down of a plane detected in the Colombian airspace loaded with cocaine or other drugs.
increased production
President Biden’s announcement comes just one month after the report on crops for illicit use in Colombia prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, was released, in which it was recorded that in the country there was a reduction of coca leaf plantations, but on the other hand, the production of illicit drugs increased.
UNODC data records that the decrease in cultivated areas was estimated at 7% less and went from 154,000 hectares in 2019 to 143,000 in 2020, while production rose 8% and in 2020 1,228 tons produced were recorded.
The announcement of the aid also comes after the inauguration of the new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who stated in the presidential campaign that the fight against drugs in Colombia has been a failure, and intends to rethink the strategies that would range from the continued use of glyphosate to voluntary eradication programs in the country