BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia must maintain eradication and substitution of coca crops as a long-term policy across the Andean nation's isolated jungle and mountain zones to permanently defeat drug trafficking and consolidate peace, the defence minister told Reuters.
A new government, which will be elected next year, must keep up the policy if the nation hopes to stamp out the illegal drugs industry, which has funded Colombia's half century war that has killed more than 220,000 and displaced millions.
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