Better late than never..... would have been nice 30 years ago.
Would have been better than nice. Someone I'll always care deeply for would probably still be alive today. The "what ifs" can eat you alive, if you let them.
The demand in the US and other countries is so high, the street value versus cost of production so astronomical, and the poverty in colombia so extreme, that I see no reality-based reason to expect the cocaine trade in the US to change.
The fact that colombia is partially controlled by a non-government military that uses terror and targetted assasinations as instruments of policy does NOT help prospects.
It was happening about ten years ago at the latest. That was quite a few years after the Colombian government had been begging for assistance and training from our government.