Latin American Poppy Fields Undermine U.S. Drug Battle. Juan Forero and Tim Weiner.
by Forero, Juan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 76Health. Publisher: New York Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Drug traffic -- Colombia | Drug traffic -- Mexico | Fumigation | Heroin habit | Heroin industry | Narcotics -- Control of -- Colombia | Narcotics -- Control of -- Mexico | Opium poppy growers | SprayingDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Colombia and Mexico have become the dominant suppliers of heroin to the United States, supplanting Asia, in a trend that experts and the authorities fear could offset American-backed successes in a campaign against drugs that has focused mostly on cocaine." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article discusses Colombia's expanding opium poppy market, while noting that the shift from coca to opium production may "present a challenge to aggressive American-financed efforts to fight the illegal drug trade in Colombia with aerial fumigation of coca, a lowland crop used to make cocaine."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
Originally Published: Latin American Poppy Fields Undermine U.S. Drug Battle, June 8, 2003; pp. 1+.
"Colombia and Mexico have become the dominant suppliers of heroin to the United States, supplanting Asia, in a trend that experts and the authorities fear could offset American-backed successes in a campaign against drugs that has focused mostly on cocaine." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article discusses Colombia's expanding opium poppy market, while noting that the shift from coca to opium production may "present a challenge to aggressive American-financed efforts to fight the illegal drug trade in Colombia with aerial fumigation of coca, a lowland crop used to make cocaine."
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