The World - News from March 11, 1988

A lawmaker introduced congressional resolutions to deny foreign aid and trade privileges to the Bahamas, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay for alleged failure to cooperate with U.S. anti-drug efforts. Rep. Larry Smith (D-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Task Force on Narcotics, said the five countries have been wrongly certified by President Reagan as cooperating with drug enforcement programs. By law, the President must certify annually that major drug-producing and shipment countries have “fully cooperated” with the United States, or they face loss of certain military and economic development aid. “Some of these ‘cooperative’ countries have even actively frustrated our efforts to stop the production of drugs and their trafficking into the United States,” Smith said.