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The amount of land planted with coca in Colombia will fall to a third or less of present levels by 2004 or 2005. A United Nations (news – web sites) report published a year ago pegged total coca cultivation at 360,000 acres in 2001. U.S. officials believe Uribe’s aggressive approach which did away with Pastrana’s restrictions against fumigating small lots .
– will eventually reduce the supply of cocaine and raise the price.
 
If Uribe’s tactic works, it would mark the first tangible success of the almost $2 billion Plan Colombia since the anti-drug initiative was launched in 2000. “We are extremely pleased with the progress Uribe has made since August,” Rep. Mark Souder, an Indiana Republican who is chairman of .
The House of Representatives subcommittee on criminal justice and drug policy told reporters during a visit to Colombia last week.
 
Putumayo once produced almost half of Colombia’s cocaine. Now the coca plants are steadily vanishing, taking the region’s prosperity with them. The coca fields that stretched along the Guamuez Valley as far as the eye could see now appear burned .

Cripple the world’s largest cocaine industry. The geared-up campaign, which includes more fumigations and more powerful herbicide, has destroyed vast coca fields in this key cocaine-producing jungle region near the Ecuadorian border. But the offensive has also brought misery to thousands of poor farmers who depend on the illicit crop.
 
In the past, to Washington’s frustration, spraying efforts made no .
Dent in the hundreds of tons of cocaine arriving in the United States as the sowing of new coca fields outpaced the fumigations. Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine, turns out 500 to 600 tons of the drug every year.
 
But Uribe, a stern lawyer who took office in August, is determined to succeed where past governments have failed. .
He says he’ll fumigate over and over, as many times as it takes, to crush the coca growers’ will to continue.
 
In four months of spraying in 2002, Uribe’s government destroyed 150,000 acres of coca, compared to 220,000 acres destroyed in all 2001 under his predecessor, Andres Pastrana, according to police figures.
 
At the current busy pace, U.S. officials hope .

Relationship with a part-time member of my staff.”He said he chose to resign rather than subject his family to a “painful, drawn-out process” in what he called “the poisonous environment of Washington, D.C.”
 
“I’m sick of politicians who drag their spouses in front of the cameras rather than confronting the problems that they’ve caused,” he said .On a hillside covered with .
Brown, withered bushes, Jesus, 12, picks sprouting leaves in what were once lush, green fields of coca.
 
Jesus, who has toiled in Colombia’s coca farmlands for a year, says that in a day’s work he harvests 80 pounds (35 kg) of coca leaves, the raw material for cocaine. That’s about half of what he picked before this village in southern .
Putumayo was targeted by a U.S.-backed fumigation campaign last year. “There was more coca before. People are leaving but there is still some coca left,” said Jesus, his bruised hands covered with rags as a group of children labored by his side.
 
After two years of faltering results, Colombia’s hard-line President Alvaro Uribe has intensified the aerial assault intended to .

Would choose a candidate for the November ballot. The special election cannot be held until at least 60 days after the vacancy occurs.
 
Throughout his time in Congress, Souder made his evangelical Christianity a centerpiece of his public persona. He was known for his outspoken views on religion and his uncompromising conservative positions on social issues such as abortion.
 
He said after .
A 2008 hearing on abstinence-only education that the only fully reliable way young people can protect themselves from pregnancy and STDs is by “abstaining from sex until in a committed, faithful relationship.”
 
Around the same time, he also recorded a video interview with a staff member in which he stressed the importance of abstinence education.As a lawmaker, Souder was best known .
For his work on drug enforcement issues and his opposition to online gambling. Souder played an important role in 2006 legislation that targeted methamphetamine dealers.
 
“To serve has been a blessing and a responsibility given from God. I wish I could have been a better example,” Souder said. “I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual .

Which he apologized for his actions but provided no details, including the name of the staffer. He said his wife and family were “more than willing” to stand with him, but “the error is mine and I should bear the responsibility,” Souder said.
 
“I am so ashamed to have hurt the ones I love,” he said as he battled tears. “I .
Am sorry to have let so many friends down, people who have worked so hard for me.”The announcement stunned many in political circles.”Most people in this part of the state are as dumbfounded as they could be,” said Bob Schmuhl, a political analyst and University of Notre Dame professor.
 
Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels said he was surprised and disappointed by Souder’s .
Announcement.”He did a wrong thing but now he’s done the right thing,” Daniels said.A spokeswoman from Daniels’ office said a special election will be held to fill the vacancy. The winner would complete the remainder of Souder’s term that ends in January.
 
Republican and Democratic precinct committeemen in the district will choose nominees for the special election, and GOP precinct officials .

The eight-term Republican rocked party leaders, who had counted on keeping the Republican-leaning district in a year that many expect will favor the Republicans nationally come November.
 
Souder’s staff contacted the staff of House Minority Leader John Boehner on Sunday to alert them to the situation. Boehner spoke on the phone with Souder on Monday.Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said the minority .
Leader “has been perfectly clear that he will hold our members to the highest ethical standards.”
 
Rumors of Souder’s infidelity had circulated in the northeastern Indiana district for months. Opponents reported receiving anonymous calls a few days before the May 4 primary with allegations of the affair.But Souder’s announcement that he would resign effective Friday and the confession of the affair .
Stunned many voters who had backed his conservative support for family values and traditional marriage.
 
“I just think it’s a crying shame,” said Jean Tarner, who owns the Huntington Street Bar in downtown Syracuse. “He’s supposed to be setting the values for the youth. It’s just too bad.”
 
Souder was alone during an emotional news conference at his Fort Wayne office during .

Make souder Borg current World Bank chief economist, Development Economics Research Group, working in the office of senior vice president. In 1989, he received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University after the accession to the World Bank, with a focus of international trade and finance.
 
He has participated in the World Bank in Asia, Africa, many European countries, economic .
Policy project, these countries are: Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Ghana, Russia and Turkey. Joined the economic development group, he succeeded in India and Pakistan were on the Government’s structural adjustment loans.
 
From 1997 to 1998, he left the World Bank and the Asian region as an economist working in the Hong Kong-based investment bank Salomon Smith Barney. Joined the World .
Bank before he worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development, National University of Singapore and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
 
Indiana Rep. Mark Souder, an evangelical Christian who promoted abstinence education and was known for his outspoken views on religion, said Tuesday he will resign from Congress because of an extramarital affair with a part-time staff member.
 
The announcement by .