Why hasn’t the Colombian executive branch fully implemented the country’s own legislation on internally displaced persons?
With 3.8 million people forced to flee their homes due to civil conflict, violence and fumigation efforts, Colombia has the second largest number of internally displaced persons in the world. There are numerous reports of violations of their basic rights. “Rather than boasting about the great legal framework they have, they should enforce it,” said Sanchez. Fumigation has not curbed coca growing or cocaine production. Why should we expect fumigation to succeed now? Rather than ease farmers’ reliance on coca, aerial herbicide spraying reinforces it. Fumigation leads farmers to replant as quickly and as often as they can and forces them to move into ever more remote areas. As coca spreads, the armed conflict follows, worsening the plight of communities brought into the crossfire. Coca’s dispersal also entails deforestation and other environmental damage. “The real surprise would be if fumigation actually curbed coca cultivation,” said John Walsh, Senior Associate for the Andes and Drug P
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