Miller, T. Christian. <br/><br/>
Colombia's Drug War Attracts Dubious Ally. / 
T. Christian Miller. 
 -  Los Angeles Times Syndicate,  2002. 
 - SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.  Article 61.  Health,  1522-323X; .
<br/><br/> Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.  Originally Published: Colombia's Drug War Attracts Dubious Ally, Aug. 19, 2002; pp. n.p.. 
<br/><br/> "A fledgling U.S. program to eradicate cocaine in Central Colombia has gained a notorious ally: a right-wing paramilitary army that the State Department has labeled a terrorist organization. The so-called self-defense forces, responsible for the majority of massacres in Colombia's bloody internal conflict, have thrown their support behind a U.S. alternative development program that seeks to persuade farmers to give up their profitable coca crops for legal products such as beans, chocolate and cattle." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article  presents paramilitaries' efforts to rid Colombia of cocaine and their reasons for doing so when "paramilitary leaders have long admitted that they rely on profits from drugs to support the estimated 11,000 paramilitary soldiers fighting throughout Colombia.". 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>1522-323X; 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coca industry--South America.<br/>Cocaine industry--Colombia.<br/>Drug traffic--Colombia.<br/>Narcotics--Control of--Colombia.<br/>Paramilitary forces.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Colombia--Politics and government.<br/>United States--Foreign relations--Colombia.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AC1.S5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>050