U.S. HAILS ANTI-DRUG DRIVE

Bogota, Colombia (AP) - With significant support from the United States,
Colombia may have turned a corner in its efforts to eradicate coca in the
country's principal growing region, U)S) officials said.

To reinforce that message with Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe,
Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived Tuesday night in Bogota, there he
planned talks with Uribe about the anti-drug campaign.

Powell told a Colombian newspaper that he sees the visit as a show of
support for Uribe in his efforts to fight "those terrorist elements within
Colombian people to have a democracy that gives them a society that is safe."