Andean Group - 5 October 2004
New strategy, new confrontation in Chapare
Ten days after Bolivia’s President Carlos Mesa announced his new anti-drugs strategy, a clash between the army-police eradication enforcers and coca growers left one of the latter shot dead and about 20 people injured. This has forced Evo Morales to reemerge in his old role as leader of the coca growers - and has given him a first success: a brief pause in the eradication effort.
Ten days after Bolivia’s President Carlos Mesa announced his new anti-drugs strategy, a clash between the army-police eradication enforcers and coca growers left one of the latter shot dead and about 20 people injured. This has forced Evo Morales to reemerge in his old role as leader of the coca growers - and has given him a first success: a brief pause in the eradication effort.
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