The World - News from Nov. 13, 1988

Despite funding of more than $100 million in the past four years, U.S. anti-drug efforts in Colombia and Bolivia have been almost entirely ineffective and the cultivation of drug crops has increased dramatically in both countries, according to a General Accounting Office report. The strongly worded report contrasts sharply with State Department claims that programs being funded through its Bureau of International Narcotics Matters are achieving some success in Latin America. According to the GAO, the programs have had so little impact that South America’s production of coca--from which cocaine is made--doubled between 1982 and 1987.