University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 25, 1992
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Billions fail to win drug war
Production up report quotes
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's multibillion-dollar strategy to curb Latin American cocaine production has failed to stem the tide of illegal drug shipments to this country, a congressional report said yesterday.
The report, issued by the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary crime subcommittee, said that there was no evidence that any street dealers missed any sales because of a shortage of cocaine, despite the 700 percent increase in government spending over the last decade to stop drug imports.
The study was issued by Rep. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the panel's chairman, as President Bush prepared to join five Latin American presidents to tomorrow in San Antonio to discuss further efforts to curb
cocaine traffic.
Although Bush claims that the administration is winning the war on imported cocaine, the report said, "By any objective standard, the president's Andean Initiative has failed in several critical respects."
Efforts to eradicate coca leaf-growing in Peru, Colombia and Bolivia have failed to prevent an increase in cocaine production and shipment to this country, the report said.
Once primarily restricted to Colombia, coca processing is now suspected in six other nations. "Substantial numbers of labs are found in nine countries and believed to exist in four others," the report said.
The number of countries cited as transshipment points has increased from 11 to 25, the report said.
Since Bush attended the last drug summit two years ago in Cartagena, Colombia, the expansion of the drug trade throughout South and Central America has proceeded apace, the report said.
*Venezuela has become a significant coca grower, while refining labs
The report cited the administration's own estimates that production increased from 836 metric tons in 1989 to 970 metric tons last year.
have been established in Ecuador, Chile, Brazil and Venezuela," the reportsaid.
The administration, which set a goal of reducing cocaine production 10 to 50 percent in its 1989 drug strategy, did not include a target in the plan it released last month, the report noted.
However, Bush contended recently that the U.S. is winning the drug war. Since 1989, federal spending on drug use has almost doubled to more than $12 billion.
The administration contends that cocaine use is down 35 percent since 1988 and that, among adolescents, the decline is 63 percent. During the same time frame, it says, the percentage of students who approve cocaine use has dropped by 47 percent.
Crackdowns by the Drug Enforcement Administration on smuggling into Florida has only forced drug traffickers to shift their routes through Mexico, the report said.
The Associated Press
Report says officials abuse residents immigrants along Mexican border
EL PASO, Texas — Federal officers assault border residents and immigrants, sexually harass them and violate their civil rights, and seldom are investigated or disciplined, an immigration group said yesterday.
In conjunction with the report's release, the committee plans to urge changes in the investigation, complaint and training procedures of the U.S. Customs and Immigration and Naturalization services and ask for the creation of a civilian oversight panel.
The American Friends Service Committee, in a report scheduled for release today, said that it had documented more than 1,200 cases of abuse that occurred on the border between 1989 and 1991.
Maria Jimenez, Houston director
of the committee's Immigration Law Enforcement Monitoring Project, said that foreigners were not the only ones affected by policies such as U.S. Attorney General William Barr's plan to beef up enforcement on the border.
Jimenez said the fact that 17 percent of the border abuse victims were U.S. citizens told them that all parts of the community were affected.
Messages left by the Associated Press with the INS in Washington and U.S. Customs Service in Houston were not immediately returned.
She said that the report was more critical than two previous reports on border abuse by the committee.
One case cited by the committee was that of Rafafa Rivera, a U.S. citizen who says a customers inspector twisted her arm in a scuffle during a
routine inspection as she and her husband returned from Mexico Feb. 8.
The inspector said that he was kicked, but Rivera said that he grabbed her when she asked why he washing his car trunk with a hammer used to find concealed compartments.
Customs said it did not investigate the case because Rivera never filed a formal complaint. Rivera's attorney said that she planned to sue.
Jose Moreno, director of the El Paso Catholic Diocese's Migrant and Refugee Services, cited the 1987 case of a man who drowned in the Rio Grande when Border Patrol agents yanked a rope guiding his makeshift raft.
A federal investigation found no negligence but the family was awarded $210,000 in civil damages.
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