•HRES 1483 IH 
Year 2008, Venezuela and Bolivia, ‘‘failed demonstrably 
during the previous 12 months to adhere to their obliga-
tions under international counternarcotics agreements’’; 
Whereas earlier this year, a mob of more than 10,000 
marched to the gates of the United States Embassy in 
La Paz; 
Whereas United States Agency for International Development 
workers in the coca producing Chapare region of Bolivia 
were threatened expulsion by cocalero syndicates en-
dorsed by the Bolivian Government, and subsequently 
withdrew; 
Whereas the United States was forced to withdraw Drug En-
forcement Administration agents from the Chapare re-
gion of Bolivia; 
Whereas the United States as a precautionary measure is 
withdrawing all Peace Corps volunteers from Bolivia for 
security concerns; 
Whereas Bolivia experienced a 14 percent increase in land 
used for coca cultivation in 2007 increasing the potential 
cocaine yield from 115 to as much as 175 metric tons (as 
estimated by the Drug Enforcement Administration); 
Whereas, according to United States Assistant Secretary of 
State David Johnson’s statement to the press on August 
12, 2008, increased Bolivian drug cultivation is causing 
an escalation of drugs flowing into Brazil and Europe; 
Whereas Venezuela has complicated efforts by the United 
States to assist in the fight against drugs by denying 
entry visas for Drug Enforcement Administration agents; 
Whereas more than 250 metric tons of cocaine transit 
through Venezuela every year; 
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•HRES 1483 IH 
Whereas in 2007, 17 percent of the documented cocaine flow 
from South America went through Venezuela, a five-fold 
increase from the 51 metric tons estimated to have 
flowed through Venezuela in 2002; and 
Whereas the recent expulsion of United States ambassadors 
from Venezuela and Bolivia was both provocative and un-
justified and hinders counternarcotics cooperation be-
tween the United States and these countries: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) the House of Representatives— 
(A) expresses its outrage over the expul-
sions of United States Ambassador to Ven-
ezuela Patrick Duddy and the United States 
Ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg, two 
first-rate career diplomats; 
(B) strongly condemns the actions and in-
actions of the Government of the Bolivarian Re-
public of Venezuela and the Republic of Bolivia 
in ‘‘failing demonstrably during the previous 12 
months to adhere to their obligations under 
international counternarcotics agreements’’; 
(C) calls on the Government of the 
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Re-
public of Bolivia to support alternative develop-
ment efforts that help coca farmers shift away 
from illicit crop production; and 
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•HRES 1483 IH 
(D) calls on the Governments of the 
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Re-
public of Bolivia to resume full counternarcotics 
cooperation with the United States in the inter-
est of stability and prosperity for the people of 
Venezuela and Bolivia, without delay; and 
(2) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that— 
(A) it should continue to be the policy of 
the United States to work with all countries in 
the Andean region to combat trafficking in nar-
cotics and other controlled substances; and 
(B) steps should be taken to restore full 
cooperation between Venezuela, Bolivia, and the 
United States Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion. 
Æ 
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