Spraying feud with Ecuador escalates
From Times Wire Reports
Colombia pushed on with chemical spraying of the coca plants used to make cocaine along its border with Ecuador in a campaign stoking diplomatic tensions between the Andean neighbors.
Ecuadorean President-elect Rafael Correa canceled a trip to Bogota to protest the fumigation with the herbicide glyphosate, which Ecuador says is harming crops and residents on its side of the border.
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