Colombia Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

— Barry McCaffrey

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International…

— Noam Chomsky

If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it…

— Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. "…

— Noam Chomsky

For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the…

— Juan Manuel Santos

There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

— Pedro Pascal

There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.

— Juan Manuel Santos

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

Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So…

— Juan Manuel Santos