Published Feb 21, 2007
Every year in Colombia, more than 3,000 people, mostly citizens, are killed in the crossfires of a brutal civil war that has its roots in the drug trade, according to a May 24, 2005, BBC News article.The United States has pledged billions of dollars to stop the drug war in South America and has attempted to destroy the crop altogether through mass eradication programs since the 1970s.
But so far its tactics have been useless.