{"id":159228,"date":"2026-09-11T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/judge-suspends-aerial-fumigation-pilot-program-in-colombia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:01:14","slug":"judge-suspends-aerial-fumigation-pilot-program-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/judge-suspends-aerial-fumigation-pilot-program-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge suspends aerial fumigation pilot program in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Justice in Colombia halts aerial fumigation pilot program in Putumayo<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Third Promiscuous Circuit Court of Puerto As\u00eds, in the department of Putumayo, has issued a provisional measure that halts the pilot plan for aerial fumigation proposed by the Colombian Government. This initiative sought to resume the use of aircraft for the eradication of illicit crops, a practice that had remained suspended for years due to serious public health and environmental concerns.<\/p>\n\n<p>The judicial decision responds to a guardianship action filed by a citizen, which puts a pause on the spraying activities scheduled in the region. The government project intended to use ammonium glufosinate, a herbicide classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as moderately hazardous and whose application is not permitted in the European Union.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details of the suspended initiative<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Government&#8217;s plan was designed under an experimental, limited, and temporary scheme. According to initial projections, the intervention intended to cover up to 1,000 hectares over a maximum period of seven days. Authorities argued that the purpose was not a total reactivation of fumigations, but rather the collection of scientific evidence regarding the product&#8217;s efficacy and its impact on the environment.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Historical context of eradication in Colombia<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2015, under the administration of Juan Manuel Santos, the use of glyphosate was suspended following health alerts.<\/li><li>The Constitutional Court ratified this suspension years later, prioritizing the health of rural farming communities.<\/li><li>Since then, the country has focused its efforts on manual eradication and voluntary crop substitution programs.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>The possibility of re-implementing aerial spraying has been a subject of intense debate in Colombia. While the State seeks new tools to combat the expansion of illicit crops, communities and judicial authorities maintain a vigilant stance regarding the risks that these substances could pose to the ecosystem and the physical integrity of the inhabitants in the intervened areas.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice in Colombia halts aerial fumigation pilot program in Putumayo The Third Promiscuous Circuit Court of Puerto As\u00eds, in the department of Putumayo, has issued a provisional measure that halts the pilot plan for aerial fumigation proposed by the Colombian Government. This initiative sought to resume the use of aircraft for the eradication of illicit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[6747,15642,13440,15643],"class_list":{"0":"post-159228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-colombia","9":"tag-crops","10":"tag-fumigation","11":"tag-glufosinate"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}