Circumstances Quote by Juan Manuel Santos

If you look at the U.S. government data, our own data, there is as much coca today in Colombia and as much cocaine in…

— Jan Schakowsky

The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no particular desire…

— Noam Chomsky

A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you…

— Juan Manuel Santos

For decades, Colombia has been accused of being the world's principal provider of cocaine. If this comes to an end, it would be a…

— Juan Manuel Santos

The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.

— Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

— Juan Manuel Santos

I think the coca grower needs an alternative to stop growing coca. We need to have a comprehensive policy, which means separating the coca-growing…

— Ollanta Humala

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug…

— Jan Schakowsky

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery,…

— Noam Chomsky

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

— Juan Manuel Santos

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

— Evo Morales

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

— Barry McCaffrey