BOGOTA -- Environmental authorities in Colombia have accused the military of spraying glyphosate herbicide on drug crops without conducting adequate assessments of the harm it causes to human health and the environment, and of failing to mitigate such impacts.

In the department of Putumayo alone, where 60 percent of Colombia's coca plantations are found, some 30,000 hectares of the crop were destroyed from January to March of this year. That total was the goal set to be achieved within two years, according to the commander of the anti-narcotics police, Mario Montoya.

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