 Oh, this is gotta be flying to Colombia. Operation Snowcap, card number 27, Andean Fiasco, this is one cento, Operation Snowcap. Andean Fiasco, on August 20th, 1990, the House Committee on Government Operations released a report on the success of Operation Snowcap. The Reagan-Bush administration program aimed at stopping the flow of drugs into the United States at their source. Riddled with corruption on contradiction, Operation Snowcap, the House concluded, was a joke. Snowcap's goal had been to eliminate cocoa crops, cocaine processing laboratories, clandestine landing strips, and other trafficking operations in the cocoa-producing countries of South America. But the committee learned that less than one percent of the region's cocaine had been destroyed by this campaign. DEA agent Michael Levin asserted that his attempt to infiltrate top-level Bolivian drug cartels was sabotaged by his superior's insistence on an immediate low-level bust which blew his cover. The 1990 report found that in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia, authorities are deeply involved in narcotics trafficking. For example, when a DEA team tried to visit a processing site, in Peru, local police had opened up and fired at their helicopter. Operation Snowcap was simply following the formula of previous drug wars launched in Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, and Argentina. In each of these countries, the military used US drug war money to reinforce ongoing dirty war campaigns launched against local left-wing movements. Perhaps this was the covert intent of such US drug policies. While the military grew more repressive, the major drug growers had grown wealthier. After three-and-one-half-year of operation, Operation Snowcap, the only significant drug traffickers who had been caught and put out of business were those in direct competition with the major cartels. This has got to be connected up to Plain, Colombia, which was basically US military getting in bed with Monsanto at the time. Taking their pesticides and amplifying them, making them way more brutal and spraying Colombia and Panama and South America, some of the cocoa crops they could find, or they knew or they were trying to get rid of the competition from their people, and poisoning the land. There's a tremendous amount of people who have suffered because of this chemical warfare that was conducted in South America for a number of decades. And as far as I know, part of this operation continues to stay under a different name.