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Background
In September 1989, President Bush approved an Andean counter-drug initiative that expanded narcotics-related military, economic, law enforcement, and intelligence cooperation for selected Andean countries for the purpose of strengthening their counter-narcotics efforts. At the Cartagena summit in February 1990, President Bush joined Andean presidents from Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru in a commitment to fight drug trafficking through a strategy of mutually reinforcing actions to cut demand and supply. At that summit, the Andean presidents appealed to President Bush to provide new trade opportunities to create legal sources of employment to displace …