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Jim Risch: “It sure seems to me that it would be very difficult to argue that there is not backsliding going on.”

On the recordMarch 14, 2023
It sure seems to me that it would be very difficult to argue that there is not backsliding going on.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch expresses concern over Colombia's cessation of coca eradication efforts.

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