Plan Colombia Out, Advertising In: A New Tactic in Colombia's War on Cocaine Production

Colombia, home of the nominally Marxist narcoterrorist group, FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), is about to try a new tactic to stem the group's main source of financing, international cocaine trafficking: advertising.

Beginning today, recreational European cocaine users will find themselves the object of an advertising campaign connecting their use to human and environmental damage wrought by cocaine in Colombia. "We need to tell Europeans that the line of coke they snort is tainted in blood," said Vice President Francisco Santos, who reserves particular ire for supermodel Kate Moss, whose alleged cocaine use was front page news in the UK last year. According to reports, recreational cocaine use is up significantly in a number of European countries, but continues its two decade decline in the United States. Read more ...