Manuel Rodríguez, Colombia's first environment minister, authorized aerial
spraying of drug crops in the early 1990s under strict guidelines, Engle writes. But according to Engle, Rodríguez thinks that the government has become lax in abiding by these regulations -- perhaps part of the reason the public has grown so outraged at the
practice.
In this photo, another taken during the Oct. 5, 2011, farmers' protest against aerial fumigation of illicit crops, a Colombian farmer and his children rest outside the Coliseum in Taraza.
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