Final Exam.

U.S. CERTIFICATION RESULTS FOR 2001 could be the last. President George W Bush isn't keen on the annual report card and several proposals floating around Congress could make it but a memory by next year. The U.S. State Department this year certified Mexico and Colombia--despite increased coca production--along with Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. Haiti remains decertified for not working hard enough to stop drug traffickers but faces no sanctions.

"Throughout its 15-year existence, the certification process has proved to be an effective, if blunt, policy instrument for counter-narcotics cooperation."

-Rand Beers, assistant secretary of state for narcotics (AFP)

"We despise it. It is unilateral and is counterproductive."

-Rodrigo Labardini, counselor for antinarcotics programs at the Mexican embassy in Washington (San Diego Union-Tribune)

"Mexico has done some record-setting...opium and marijuana production eradication."

-Robert Brown of the White House Drug Control Policy Office (AP)

"The litmus test is going to be whether they catch and prosecute the major kingpins in Mexico."

-Ana Maria Salazar, expert on U.S.-Mexico relations, Mexican Autonomous Technological Institute (Knight-Ridder)

"The annual drug certification process...has outlived its usefulness."

-U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes (LATIN TRADE)

"[Before certification] we got zero cooperation. Colombia and Mexico wouldn't even talk to us."

-U.S. Senator Joseph Biden Jr. (The Washington Times)