7 Quotes by Adam Isacson

Now you have a precedent of the United States actually helping these guys come in from the cold. There's more flexibility.

People with no economic alternatives have not been deterred by fumigation.

Coca production was not going to be reduced just because fumigation flights spray some fields as long as these farmers don't have any other economic options, except to cut down forests to grow coca somewhere else.

You're talking about $4.7 billion spent on Plan Colombia, and this is all we have to show for it?

It's a bizarre working at cross- purposes. You have bad relations with this government, and you're selling them the means to put down opposition protests.

It may make it easier to fund demobilization and re-integration programs elsewhere in the world.

the next time Bolivia blows up I think they'll be used quite a bit.