Judge suspends Colombia’s aerial fumigation pilot : A Putumayo from the southern Putumayo province suspended the government’s announced resumption of the aerial spraying of coca, ordering information that would allow “a sufficiently informed decision on the merits.” Earlier this week, the National Narcotics Council (CNE) ordered the National Police to restart the aerial fumigation of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, “as a controlled, limited, temporary, and evaluable experimental phase, the implementation of a pilot plan for the eradication of illicit crops through aerial spraying using a manned aircraft and the formulated product Glufosinate Ammonium 200 SL.” The National Police subsequently said that the 10km2 pilot area was located in Putumayo, a province inside the Amazon forest. These announcements triggered a local foundation to sue the administration, claiming that the plans to do a pilot were in violation of the 2015 ban on aerial fumigation and threatene...