Bush’s much-touted 1989 Andean Initiative so far has “only marginally impacted on the narcotraffickers.”
Peru, a major coca producer, is such a “quagmire of deceit and corruption, attainment of U.S. objectives is impossible.”
Though the Medellin cartel’s crippled, the flow of cocaine from Colombian processing centers hasn’t been slowed.
“Micro-managing by Congress” and “bureaucratic inertia” have held up anti-drug aid to Latin America.
In sum, the report advises against deeper Pentagon involvement in the war: “[avoid] short term, relatively ephemeral, military solutions.”
