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November 23, 2001
Narco News 2001
Bolivia
Suspends
Coca
Eradication
Historic
Talks Begin but
US Embassy
is Enraged
National Coca Summit
Begins Today, Mediated by the Catholic Church
Popular
protests and blockades forced the government to suspend
eradication
and withdraw 4,000 troops from the Chapare region
US
Embassy opposes the suspension; Bush calls Bolivian president
to Washington woodshed; presidents will meet on December 6th
Unrest in the Military:
Colonel accuses US Embassy of forming paramilitary
mercenaries
with "the most racist commanders" to bypass Bolivian Army
because it is "90 percent indigenous"
Congressman
Evo Morales: Bolivian Law 1008 specifically allows a "cato
of coca" (a 40 by 40 meter garden) per family in the Chapare
Government
hardliners insist on resuming eradication on Wednesday,
regardless
of the results of the talks
Indigenous leader El
Mallku threatens "Christmas Blockades," to surround
the capital of La Paz
Toll of 53 deaths, 500
wounded, due to US-imposed anti-coca policy
A Narco News Global Alert
By Al
Giordano
WITH
PRESS BRIEFING
Sometimes the lack of
press coverage in the
United States of the immediate history in our Am�rica
suggests that a story is too important to be told. Some news
has consequences to manufactured public illusions. Such is the
case with the news, this month, from Bolivia.
The US-imposed drug policy
of eradicating the coca plant, even for use as a food and sacrament
by indigenous farmers, is a rotund failure that has only succeeded
in destroying the economy of a nation, and it has destabilized
the US-backed regime of Bolivian President Jorge "Tuto"
Quiroga.
In
recent days, Narco News has translated reports that indicate
a Bolivia
on the verge of social uprising and that members
of the United States Congress are concerned about the price in
human rights, militarization,
democracy and justice exacted by the drug policies demanded by
the US Ambassador in La Paz, Manuel Rocha.
United States press agencies
- despite loud self-praise of "having rediscovered foreign
news" post-9/11 - are not reporting the story.
Surely, it was news when
the Quiroga regime sent 4,000 military and police troops to the
Chapare region this month to forcibly eradicate coca.
It was news when the Bolivian
press discovered that 500 illegal paramilitary forces were among
those troops, and documented that they are funded by the United
States, to do the dirty work of assassinating peasant farmers
and social activists.
It was news when nine
farmers were assassinated.
It was news when US Ambassador
Manuel Rocha praised the bloodshed, in the Spanish-language press,
as "heroic" and "sacrificial."
It was news when the farmers
of the Chapare region of Bolivia announced plans to blockade
the nation's highways in protest of the military invasion.
It was news when other
social movements, including 250,000 retirees, joined in the social
protests.
All this was, and remains,
the news of recent days, that goes unreported in the commercial
press.
Even now, when the Bolivian
government, defeated by the popular protests, its economy in
shambles, withdraws 4,000 troops from the Chapare region and
suspends the forced eradication of coca, there has so far been
no mention of the details in the US press.
Alone among the English-language
press has been the French wire service, Agence France Press,
with a report that appears below. But AP, UPI, Reuters, the New
York Times (with at least three correspondents in South America),
the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN and the rest have chosen
to ignore the fact that one of three coca-growing countries in
South America has now suspended the program that eradicates coca
plants because of popular protests against the policy.
The subplot is that the
US embassy is hopping mad at the decision to suspend eradication,
has begun behind-the-scenes pressure tactics against the democratic
institutions of Bolivia, and that President George Bush has called
Bolivian president Jorge Quiroga to Washington on December 6th
to reiterate the US position that, when democracy conflicts with
drug policies imposed by the US, democracy must be stopped at
all costs.
Here is the hard news
and immediate history from Bolivia.
>From somewhere in a country
called Am�rica,
Al Giordano, publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
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