Jeff Duncan actually said...

You know how difficult it is to manually eradicate a coca tree. You can't just machete these things. You need to pull them up by the roots.

We all want to see these problems resolved and peace achieved.

the United States is not meddling in the affairs of Colombia, but we are very interested in seeing a peaceful solution of this.

Colombia has been a leader in creating the Pacific Alliance to further the economies of the free trade trading bloc.