Скачать или смотреть Glyphosate use suspended in coca eradication

(15 May 2015) Colombia's National Narcotics Council approved a government request to phase out the use of a herbicide that has been a key part of US-financed efforts to wipe out cocaine crops.
President Juan Manuel Santos last week decided to halt fumigation in the wake of a report by a research arm of the World Health Organisation classifying glyphosate as a probable carcinogen.
The National Narcotics Council, who set Colombia's drug policy, met on Thursday in the capital Bogota and ruled to phase out glyphosate by October.
A slower manual eradication technique would instead be carried out by army units in areas often dominated by rebels.
Opponents of Santos have warned that Colombia could soon be swimming in coca, however, many observers argue that current fumigation techniques, carried out since the 1990s, have done little to reduce cultivation of the leaf.

Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...