Bolivia's drug crisis

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This was too funny to pass up. I wonder where
NoFacts got a "recent classified National Intelligence summary"?


These ominous developments have not been mentioned publicly by
official Washington. "White House Hails Drops in Coca Cultivation in
Bolivia, Peru," trumpeted the State Department propaganda apparatus
on November 25. A close reading of the handout reveals that coca
production in Bolivia, not linked with Peru, actually increased in 2003.

Beyond numbers, the official U.S. line has little to do with reality. The
backlash to U.S.-sponsored coca eradication in Bolivia was behind the
violent ouster October 17 as president of Washington's friend in La Paz,
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. U.S. officials who have been there believe
the momentum is rising. Since September, according to human rights
groups, more than 120 have been killed in Bolivian political deaths (not
to mention the "disappeared").

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To combat these developments, the U.S. in the last year provided only
$500,000 for Bolivia's military and police compared with $90 million
for coca eradication. Bolivian security forces are well equipped for
anti-coca operations in the jungle but have been given neither
equipment nor training to maintain public order even for a single day.

Here is a latter-day domino effect. Dissenting officials in the U.S.
government believe Bolivia is becoming what the Pentagon calls an
"ungoverned area." They fear that Colombia's narcoterrorists will
switch their growing and processing operations to Bolivia, making
irrelevant U.S. counter-drug policy in Colombia.

CNN

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1. U.S. counter-drug policy

is a disgusting masturbatory waste of money that only serves to inflate the price of coca and profit the military industrial complex and vicious narco-terrorist cartels. I really shouldn't get started on the War on Drugs right now.