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Relief efforts in Peru have been hampered by a strike among health-care workers. When Bolivia tried to send doctors to the Andean village of Puno, where an outbreak was beginning, the medical team was asked to stay home. Finally the strikers allowed a limited number of Bolivian technicians to disinfect Puno's sewage pipes with chlorine...
...reason for this longevity may be that Yemenites always find time for a communal chew of kat, a mood-altering plant whose effect seems similar to that of the Andean coca leaf. Horwitz also makes the kat scene, but the effect soon dissipates in the tensions of Cairo, Khartoum and Baghdad. In 1988, he notes, the popular joke in the Iraqi capital was that there were 32 million Iraqis: 16 million people and 16 million pictures of Saddam Hussein. This count included the President's face on wristwatches and ashtrays, and an unnerving number of government officials who are Saddam...
...rival cocaine refiners in Cali and elsewhere have stepped in to fill the void. Raw coca from Bolivia and Peru is plentiful and will remain so. Leaders of the Andean governments have rejected U.S. State Department plans for wholesale eradication, arguing that such an approach would starve and radicalize hundreds of thousands of peasants for whom coca leaves are a valuable cash crop. Moreover, heroin is making a frightening comeback in some areas. Thanks to bumper crops of opium in insurgent-controlled northeastern Burma, Southeast Asian heroin traffickers are flooding New York and New Jersey with moderately priced, high-quality...
...their part, the Latin leaders will reiterate long-standing claims that American consumers, not Latin suppliers, fuel the drug wars. To buttress that accusation, the Andean Presidents may even bring up the arrest on drug charges of Washington Mayor Marion Barry. The Latins will decry what they perceive as an attempt by Bush to shift the flagging need to battle international communism to an expanded offensive against a new "evil empire," this one based in Medellin. If, as one Colombian commentator warns, Bush attempts to "project the image of the defiant macho," he can expect little cooperation from his Latin...
Much of the wish list will not be realized. Last month Bush unveiled a proposed foreign aid budget for fiscal year 1991. He allocated a total of $423 million for military, law-enforcement and economic aid to the Andean nations. While the request would double the 1990 bequest, the package represents just 4% of the $10.6 billion Bush has proposed for all antidrug programs. The White House emphasizes, however, that European countries will join the U.S. in providing Andean...