Sentences with phrase «coca fields»

Mister Goyes also accused the WWF for its complicit silence in lieu of the fumigation of coca fields in Colombia which has caused damage to the heart of life for communities and irreparable damage to the native forests.

A diplomatic conflict between Ecuador and Colombia stemming from the controversial aerial spraying of herbicides onto coca fields as an antidrug measure does not sound like a likely subject for mathematical research.

Starting in 2000, with support from the U.S. government, Columbia had intensively sprayed the herbicide to try to destroy the country's illegal coca fields.

Beneath the coca fields in southern Colombia lie the largest undeveloped oil deposits in the Americas.

Not exact matches

Under the watchful eye of cartel operatives, coca leaves are converted into cocaine, usually in Colombia, Peru, or Bolivia, in labs near the fields where they're grown.

Because coca is often planted in the same field with food crops, corn, bananas, yucca and beans are killed along with it.