Decades after aerial herbicide campaigns first divided Colombia, Bogotá has announced their resumption following high-level talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio — only to face an immediate legal challenge from local courts concerned about the health of civilians in coca-growing regions. The episode reveals a tension as old as the war on drugs itself: the distance between the strategic logic of enforcement and the lived reality of those who inhabit the land being treated as a battlefield. What unfolds in Colombian courtrooms now may determine not just a policy's fate, but whose priori
Colombia Resumes Aerial Spraying of Coca Crops Amid Health Concerns
Potential health impacts to communities in coca-growing regions from aerial spraying chemicals, though specific casualties or displacement not detailed in source.