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Bolivia challenges Washington wisdom in the Andean drug war.
Byline: Kevin G. Hall
LA PAZ, Bolivia _ After nearly a decade of forced eradication of coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, Bolivia wants instead to try to persuade poor farmers to abandon illicit crops in favor of coffee and cocoa.
The strategy shift, outlined in a report obtained by Knight Ridder exclusively, is tacit acknowledgement that unpopular forced eradication has come with too high a social and political cost for the country once hailed as the Andean leader in the U.S.-backed drug war.
The United States and Europe, which will be asked to pay for most of President Carlos Mesa's new $969 million, five-year antidrug plan, are grudgingly sympathetic. Successful past eradication efforts, in which military troops uproot coca plants, have taken an estimated $400 million out of Bolivia's small economy in ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Bolivia challenges Washington wisdom in the Andean drug war.