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...July 1980, Garcia Meza wrenched power from civilian hands in what has become known as the Cocaine Coup. U.S. Bolivian Affairs Expert James Malloy wrote then that the Garcia Meza government was a "rapacious, uniformed kleptocracy," openly in league with drug dealers. As major suppliers of the coca paste that is processed into cocaine, Bolivian drug traffickers earn some $3 billion a year...
Developing countries see drug abuse as America's dilemma, not theirs. Says Bolivian Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy: "It is unfair to put most of the weight on the coca-producing countries when it is a simple law of demand. American and Western European consumers keep doping more and more. Consequently more coca is planted." For that reason, U.S. corporations that try to stem the demand for drugs are getting right to the heart of the problem...
...officials and their families to leave the country. In Peru, 19 members of a U.S.-sponsored program to eradicate coca bushes in the wilds of the Amazon jungle were killed, four of them, the State Department was told, after being tortured. In Bolivia, intelligence agents discovered that Colombian and Bolivian cocaine traffickers had paid a gunman $500,000 to murder U.S. Ambassador Edwin Corr (the ambassador continues to drive around La Paz, varying his routes and his routine each...
...uphill struggle. "The mere fact that they're beginning to chase the traffickers is refreshing," says Dr. Carlton Turner, special assistant to President Reagan for drug abuse policy. "But I have my doubts that you're going to be able to do away with the corruption built into the Bolivian system...
...equipped 100-man companies took to the field. Some of them gave local growers warning of their imminent raid six days in advance. One general actually resigned, saying that he was not about to kill campesinos just to please North Americans. The 150 men of the U.S.-funded Bolivian antidrug unit known as the Leopards have not fared much better. After two months of special training, complained one U.S. official, "they spent months and months doing nothing. The government's choice was to avoid confrontation, so they stayed in their barracks." Finally, last October, 93 members of the heavily armed...