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Originally Posted by jholmes800
Peruvian rebels killed five police officers and two workers from state coca company Enaco in an ambush in the country's cocaine-producing southern jungle, police and officials said.
Rebels attacked a convoy during a police crackdown on illegal coca production, the raw material for cocaine. Enaco is the only company permitted to buy coca to make food and teas that are sold legally in Peru.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,2957368.story |
Interesting, didn't think ENACO workers would accompany a police operation. I wonder if what their role was, analyse and assess the illegal coca patch, or seize the illegal coca and add it to ENACO stocks ?
anyhow, this is just another example of problems that arise when domestic policies and international policies clash. Cocaine is illegal, hence the financial basis of the empires of producer/smuggler, of leftwing guerillas and right-wing paramilitaries created to oppose the same guerrilleros...And all this in a state which has done the right choice of trying to control and impose state monopoly on legal coca (and legal cocaine production), while illegal cocaine is still so lucrative that groups can actually threaten an entire political system....again, either you believe in the global total prohibition and anihilation of cocaine, or you legalise and control its use, export and production, hence destroying the illegal market by cutting off this too easy and too attractive easy money... There might be other sources of income based on criminal activities, but they surely won't be in the same league as cocaine money...
control, educate, medicalize, assist...
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18-12-2006, 14:20
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