The White House reported that aerial fumigation of Colombian coca fields alone cut cultivation by 20 percent.
Yet there was little impact on the streets of U.S. cities. Recent figures from the Rand Corporation show the price of street cocaine in the US has fallen by 31 percent since Plan Colombia was established in 2000. The price of cocaine decreasing leads to it becoming a more accessible product. Furthermore, in poor, remote areas, where farmers have no alternative way of making a living, the arrival of American spray planes has sent young peasant recruits into the war, and drove their parents to grow cocaine elsewhere. During Plan Colombia, coca cultivation spread from 12 Colombian provinces to 23. Human rights violations by guerilla groups like the FARC have also gone