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Even as coca production continues to thrive in Peru and Bolivia, it has also begun to explode in previously undeveloped areas, such as Brazil's Amazon River Basin, a wilderness of lush jungles and rivers that is almost two-thirds the size of the U.S. Three years ago, policemen noticed that relatively primitive Indians were suddenly sporting modern clothes and traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than...
...Washington's most effective weapon is still its most direct one: cutting off drugs at the source. "The closer you are to where it comes from," explains Ambassador Corr in Bolivia, "the more bang you get for your buck. By the time it gets to East St. Louis or Champaign, Ill., it's all over the place." U.S.-backed programs of coca eradication have enjoyed some measure of success: last fall in "Operation Federico" in Brazil, 9 million epadu plants were burned while workers in Peru slashed down more than 5,000 acres, three times more than...
...telephoned death threats, causing 17 U.S. officials and their families to leave the country. In Peru, 19 members of a U.S.-sponsored program to eradicate coca bushes in the wilds of the Amazon jungle were killed, four of them, the State Department was told, after being tortured. In Bolivia, intelligence agents discovered that Colombian and Bolivian cocaine traffickers had paid a gunman $500,000 to murder U.S. Ambassador Edwin Corr (the ambassador continues to drive around La Paz, varying his routes and his routine each...
...production of cocaine, the drug that has become so fashionable in the U.S. and, increasingly, in Europe, went up last year by more than 30%, said the State Department. In Bolivia, the world's second-largest coca producer, not a single plant was destroyed in 1984, according to the report; since 1977, coca production in Bolivia has tripled. In Peru, the other principal source of coca, cultivation has also been steadily rising...
...cash. Political measures are also being taken. An amendment passed by Congress in October 1983 stipulates that the President should cut off aid to any country that has failed to meet projected reductions in narcotics production. The first victim of that law, some Washington officials believe, could be Bolivia, which is to receive $48 million in U.S. assistance during the current fiscal year. "Bolivia's not going to get another dollar, so far as I'm concerned," Republican Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida, the amendment's sponsor, told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith after the State Department report was released...