Latinnews Daily - 25 May 2004
PERU: Toledo takes new line with coca growers
The government is getting increasingly rattled by the coca-growers' protests and the impasse with Aymara Indians in Ilave. The official line had been to brand all the protesters as trouble makers who were consorting with drug traffickers. Yesterday, President Alejandro Toledo softened his tone, describing the protesters in Ilave as 'our Aymara and Quechua brothers and sisters'. He specifically added that 'they are not delinquents, they are not drug-traffickers'.
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