Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as coca production continues to thrive in Peru and Bolivia, it has also begun to explode in previously undeveloped areas, such as Brazil's Amazon River Basin, a wilderness of lush jungles and rivers that is almost two-thirds the size of the U.S. Three years ago, policemen noticed that relatively primitive Indians were suddenly sporting modern clothes and traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than...
...Brazilian government has not pursued the trade with notable zeal. On the books in Brazil is 1980 legislation under which foreign drug dealers, if caught, can be expelled rather than imprisoned. That, says Tavares, is "an open signal that the narcos have nothing to fear in Brazil." Dealers who wind up behind bars, moreover, manage to get free relatively easily. Last year, a Colombian who had set up a refinery just outside Rio simply walked out of a federal maximum-security prison and away from a 27-year sentence. Not long thereafter, a prison guard who claimed that the fugitive...
...explains Ambassador Corr in Bolivia, "the more bang you get for your buck. By the time it gets to East St. Louis or Champaign, Ill., it's all over the place." U.S.-backed programs of coca eradication have enjoyed some measure of success: last fall in "Operation Federico" in Brazil, 9 million epadu plants were burned while workers in Peru slashed down more than 5,000 acres, three times more than in all 1983. But eradication does not work unless it is accompanied by adequate compensation to campesinos for the loss of a crop that requires less work and promises...
...supports, says Amstutz, "created a cushion of comfort for others" in world markets. Farmers in Brazil, Argentina, the European Community and elsewhere expanded production, secure in the knowledge that they could undersell U.S. farmers. And the supports kept American farmers from cutting prices to get back the lost sales; growers have no incentive to take a lower price overseas than they could get from the Government...
...Korean conglomerate, could link up with Ford, and Chrysler has held talks with Samsung, another firm with designs on the U.S. market. Maryann Keller, an auto-industry expert with Vilas-Fischer Assoc. in New York City, predicts that imports from such countries as South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico and Brazil will one day control the important U.S. market...