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Police destroy coca fields; army report on drug trade

(16 Dec 2008) 1. Aerial of the area due to be eradicated of coca crops 2. Mid of helicopter landing 3. Mid of land mine detector sweeping ground 4. Various of police officers working with mine detector 5. Mid of police officials walking in field 6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luis Angel Mendoza, deputy director of Colombia's counter narcotic police: "Today we finished eradicating 95,323 hectares (234,750 acres) of coca crops as well as 371 hectares (916 acres) of poppies. We are talking about the kind of work we did all over the country." 7. Mid of police pulling out coca plants 8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luis Angel Mendoza, deputy director of Colombia's counter narcotic police: "The intention we have for 2009 is of course an increase in manual eradication - that means about 100 thousand hectares and we will continue the aerial spraying because the two complement each other." 9. Various of police officers pulling out coca plants 10. Mid of helicopter carrying police officials taking off 11. Aerial of helicopter flying over the area where police are eradicating coca plants STORYLINE: Colombia's counter narcotics authorities said on Tuesday that they had eradicated over 95 thousand hectares (234,750 acres) of coca crops near the border with Ecuador. Luis Angel Mendoza, the deputy director of Colombia's counter narcotic police, added that 371 hectares (916 acres) of poppies had been destroyed and the aim for next year was "an increase in manual eradication." Police commanders and an AP Television crew accompanied Mendoza to see his men working in the township of Villa Garzon in the province of Putumayo in southwest Colombia. Dozens of policemen were sent to different townships in Putumayo to manually uproot thousands of hectares (acres) of coca plants. Mendoza praised the joint efforts between the police and armed forces to eradicate the coca plants, which are used to make cocaine. The U.S. has provided Colombia with more than 4 (b) billion US dollars in aid since 2000, aimed primarily at curbing cocaine production in Colombia as the means to reduce supplies of the drug on US streets. Colombia is the largest producer of coca in the world. Many of the crops are found in the lawless and impoverished south of Colombia, where drug traffickers, leftist rebels, far-right paramilitaries and government security forces battle for control. The eradication of coca would cut off the main source of funding for rebels and paramilitaries. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...