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From Coffee to Cocaine: U.S. Pours Gasoline on Colombia's Flames

By Gary Maceoin, AlterNet. Posted September 12, 2001.


Colombia's chaos is rooted in a long history of exploitation, inequality and instability, not from cocaine. Far from improving the situation, the U.S.'s war on drugs can only make it worse.
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