Three of de la Espriella’s proposals, backed by Donald Trump’s administration, threaten disaster for Colombia’s Amazon.

"Espriella wants to bring back aerial spraying of coca, a fast-growing bush mainly grown by small farmers, who minimally process the leaves and sell the product to drug traffickers who refine it into cocaine. The president-elect calls for attacking this poorest link in the cocaine supply chain by applying herbicides from aircraft over the Amazon basin countryside, as well as other parts of the country."

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