Word: peru
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...that even if the U.S. aid package helped the Colombian military eliminate the FARC from the jungles of the south, Colombia's cocaine crop may yet find its way to the ever-hungry U.S. market. The drug war's greatest successes have been to substantially slash cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia, but Colombian expansion has for the most part filled the shortfall. And even if Colombia was unable to meet the demand of the U.S. market, the simple economics of supply and demand would see the industry establish new production centers elsewhere in the region. "Remember, the more...
...PERU DAY TRIPS SLOW TRAIN FROM CUZCO...
...main streets of Cuzco, the majestic Inca capital of Peru, are still slumbering in the half-light between dawn and day as minibuses and taxis take tourists to the small San Pedro rail station. There, behind the chaotic stalls of the city market, crowds jostle in the entrance waiting for the three services that run from Cuzco to the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. The most comfortable and costly of the three services is the one-stop, 3 1/4-hour Inca service that leaves Cuzco at 6:15 a.m. daily for Machu Picchu. For railroad buffs, this 70-mile Cuzco...
Daughters Katie and Emma, 7 and 5, were spinning the globe in search of exotic destinations as Phillips took off for a long weekend in Ecuador and Peru. He got home March 13, seriously jet lagged but 1 million miles richer. The only problem is that he gets just 18 vacation days a year, and neither pudding nor miles can buy more...
...thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs and airstrips and then deliver Colombian police and military forces to destroy them. This drug smothering from the air has a credible track record in the region, cutting narcotics production in both Bolivia and Peru over the past decade...