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Bolivia Expands Coca Growing over U.S. Objection

HeadlineDec 20, 2006

In Bolivia, President Evo Morales has announced plans for a major expansion of the legal area for growing coca. The new rules would challenge U.S.-backed eradication programs in Bolivia and across South America. On Monday, Morales said the U.S. government could effectively combat cocaine production if it moved to reduce its own role as the world’s largest cocaine market.

Bolivian President Evo Morales: “If the illegal market does not drop, who knows that the efforts of the Bolivian government were in vain. We are obligated to debate, analyze, exchange dialogue so that the fight against the drug trade is effective not only on a national level but on an international level.”

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