Bolivia Links for 10.10.06 Written on October 10, 2006, by Eddie.
Via Guccio’s page, where he said “This sequence of pictures is not from Irak. Those are from Huanuni (Bolivia).” Truly the area around the mine is a forgotten part of Bolivia and a far cry from the modernities of the urban centers.
The Mexican professor and “sometimes advisor” to Hugo Chavez, according to the Internatonal Herald Tribune, wrote this “article” regarding the forces and groups involved in this alleged plot, which appeared in the Bolivian paper El Mundo. Naturally, Chavez provided his two cents on the matter.
LR: Vice-Minister, of the 3,200 hectares that come from the cato of coca and are permitted in the Chapare, what percentage do you think goes to the Sacaba market and how much has another destination?
FC: According to the reports, between 50-60% of he coca goes to the legal market. Unfortunately the rest..well narcotrafficking still absorbs the excess coca, the Government, and we must be honest and with much responsibility, we cannot deny the illegal business. We must adjust our policies of interdiction. For example, we must fulfill President Morales’ line of ‘zero cocaine’.
LR: So you are saying that part of the coca produced in the Tropics of Cochabamba goes toward narcotrafficking?
FC: We must say so, and we cannot cover the sun with a finger. We must be responsible as a State and reiterate, when there is still poverty, narcotrafficking will still prevail.
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