Pubdate: Mon, 08 May 2000
Date: 05/08/2000
Source: New York Times (NY)
Author: Melanie Lenart
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n578/a06.html

To the Editor:

Re "To Colombians, Drug War Is Toxic Enemy" (front page, May
1):

The Clinton administration is proposing a stepped-up program to
fumigate Colombian drug crops as part of a $1.6 billion emergency aid
package.

But even now critics say the spraying is hurting people's health and
their food crops. This means that a quarter of a century later we are
again financing the spraying of herbicides on people and their land in
the name of war.

Melanie Lenart
Tucson, May 2, 2000