{"id":824,"date":"2017-09-28T00:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T00:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2017-09-28T00:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T00:44:58","slug":"colombia-surge-in-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2017\/09\/28\/colombia-surge-in-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia Surge in Cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cocaine problem in Colombia has not gone away. Recent threats by President Trump questioning the ability and motivation behind Colombia&#8217;s preventive measures to stopping it have caused the country to go into a panic. Colombia has began to offer subsidies of 8,000 dollars for farmers to tear up the coca plant, and promise not to grow Cocaine.However, experts in Colombia said it is going to take more help from their government to convince farmers to not turn to the easy profits of cocaine, and proposed that bettering the infrastructure would be the best preventative measure in helping the farmers not turn to cocaine.<a href=\"http:\/http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/09\/colombia-surge-cocaine-production-government-efforts-170926115435250.html\">170926115435250<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cocaine problem in Colombia has not gone away. Recent threats by President Trump questioning the ability and motivation behind Colombia&#8217;s preventive measures to stopping it have caused the country to go into a panic. Colombia has began to offer subsidies of 8,000 dollars for farmers to tear up the coca plant, and promise not to grow Cocaine.However, experts in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2017\/09\/28\/colombia-surge-in-cocaine\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-the-americas-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}