The front-running presidential candidate in Peru, having pledged to put a stop to coca eradication, represents the latest challenge to a regional U.S.-financed counternarcotics effort that shows signs of fraying at its edges, according to U.S. and South American analysts.. . . 'We're going to protect the coca grower, and we're going to stop the forced eradication of their crops,' he [Ollanta Humala] said during a rally last month, La Republica newspaper reported. (Washington Post, Tuesday)
Eradicating coca, sowing anti-Americanism.
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