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February 9, 2002
Breaking News...
BLOCKADES SUCCEED!
Hardline Collapses in Bolivia...
http://www.narconews.com/
In the predawn Saturday negotiations with coca growers' leader Evo Morales,
the embattled Bolivian government, faced with national paralysis from the
blockades (see previous Narco News coverage of the social uprising),
cancelled Supreme Decree # 96415 this morning, relegalizing the sale of coca
leaf in the Chapare region, reopening the Sacaba Coca Market and the coca
farmers' independent media outlet, Radio Sovereignty.
The agreement, signed by the government, by Evo Morales, by indigenous
leader Felipe Quispe and labor leader Oscar Olivera, calls for a 90 day
truce between the government and coca farmers.
-- Calm returns to Bolivia... for now.
-- Congress will reopen case of expulsion of Evo Morales.
-- U.S. Embassy, silent on the failure and collapse of its hardline
anti-coca policy.
Narco News Andean Bureau Chief Luis G�mez is on the scene in La Paz,
chronicling the immediate history of this popular victory...
from somewhere in a country called Am�rica,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
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