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Faced with previous complaints, Colombia had recently increased manual eradication of coca plants as part of an antinarcotics program financed by the United States.
Morales has ruled out the DEA's return but this week the vice-minister of social defence, Felipe Cáceres, said the government would accept $250,000 from Washington for satellite monitoring of manual eradication of illicit coca crops.
Whether or not those figures are right, the reality is that the flow of cocaine has continued without interruption, and the trend in its street price in the United States and Europe is stable or even declining.As a result, in the past couple of years, Mr Uribe's government has started to do more manual eradication of coca, in which gangs of workers yank out each bush by hand.
So the Colombian government has moved towards the manual eradication of coca plants, hiring locals to uproot each individual plant with a hoe.
And yet, the U.S. war in Colombia is focused upon destroying the FARC, and, to the extent it is aimed at the manual eradication of coca crops, this eradication takes place almost solely in areas under FARC control, leaving the big-time drug traffickers alone.
The only management technique currently available is the manual eradication of the weeds, as long as the infestation is not too strong.
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We used manual eradication to eliminate about 10percentt of the crop.
The most common anti-drug efforts are related to eradication of crops, and include large-scale spraying, manual eradication, destruction of laboratories, and procurement and seizing of drugs.
An aggressive American-backed campaign of manual eradication in the late 1990s wiped out most of the country's illegal coca.
Cultivation of coca, the plant used to produce cocaine, fell 18percentt in Colombia last year, largely because of manual eradication efforts, the United Nations said in a report issued Friday.
"This success is thanks to the democratic security policy and its integral approach to the fight against drugs, including manual eradication and aerial spraying of coca crops," a statement said.
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