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...million Record settlement in the Coca-Cola bias suit, paying an average of $40,000 to 2,000 black workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Nov. 27, 2000 | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...number 8,000. They operate in 25% of Colombian territory, mainly in the north, along the Venezuelan border and in the central Magdalena River valley. But in the past month, AUC forces pushed deep into the southern Putumayo zone, challenging the FARC's dominance over 150,000 acres of coca plantations--which produce more than half the U.S.'s annual intake of cocaine from Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Of The Jungle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...funding a $1.3 billion drug-eradication program--even though most of the AUC's funds come from shaking down drug traffickers. "I prefer taking cash from the narcos than from honest people," says Castano, who explains that his group, like the rebels, collects a "tax" on coca paste and on the drug's transportation in AUC-controlled areas. Castano has given orders not to shoot at the government crop-spraying aircraft when they swoop over coca fields in his areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Of The Jungle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...Plan Colombia changes the spectrum of the conflict. The military component will affect us, but it affects us less than the guerrillas. We control about 25,000 hectares in Santander province and another 20,000 in south Bolivar - coca zones that we won in battle from the FARC and the ELN [the smaller leftist National Liberation Front]. We're not opposed to eradicating the coca fields, but as long as those crops are there, and guerrillas are nearby, we'll keep asking for a tax from the coca growers. This doesn't mean we're narcos. We don't export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs, Violence and Peace: A Colombian Gunman Speaks | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

...Coca doesn't help the peasant farmer to improve his life. The coca provides profits for narco-traffickers, and the guerrilla, and the AUC. The farmer earns more with coca than other crops, but at the same time, everything costs him much, much more in coca-producing zones. Plus there's prostitution, alcohol - and there's no social fabric, no education, no health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs, Violence and Peace: A Colombian Gunman Speaks | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

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