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Security & Strategic Review August 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BOLIVIA: Brazil points to rise in cocaine output under Morales
Once again the government of President Evo Morales has felt compelled
to rebut claims by Brazilian presidential candidate José Serra that it is 'lax
as regards the control of cocaine'. It has highlighted its interdiction record
and, for good measure, Morales has ordered the armed forces to engage the drugs
trade in 'a fight without quarter'. The facts of the case are that Morales has
admitted that the growth of the drugs trade was one of the weak points of his
administration, and that a sizable proportion of the growing influx of cocaine
into Brazil comes from Bolivia.
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