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...World Bank admit the problem while insisting that their policies will boost living standards over the long term. But people in the Global South have lost patience with such talk. In Bolivia this month, rioting broke out because the government and a multinational consortium planned to raise fees for drinking water. Eight people were killed. It was a reminder that the globalization protests in Washington aren't simply the product of a Web-connected U.S. counterculture but of an anger that's building around the world--the defining North-South issue of our time...
...package helped the Colombian military eliminate the FARC from the jungles of the south, Colombia's cocaine crop may yet find its way to the ever-hungry U.S. market. The drug war's greatest successes have been to substantially slash cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia, but Colombian expansion has for the most part filled the shortfall. And even if Colombia was unable to meet the demand of the U.S. market, the simple economics of supply and demand would see the industry establish new production centers elsewhere in the region. "Remember, the more you manage to cut the supply...
What happened? Weren't we supposed to be winning the drug war in Latin America? The infamous Medellin and Cali cartels were busted in the mid-1990s. And since 1995, successful eradication programs have reduced coca cultivation by two-thirds in Peru and by more than half in Bolivia...
...turns out, however, that Colombian traffickers weren't ready to raise the white flag. The billion-dollar cartels were replaced by more than 40 independent organizations that are difficult to penetrate and whose leaders have been just as enterprising as the old kingpins. When Peru and Bolivia put the squeeze on coca cultivation, the traffickers moved their crops to southern Colombia, which the government in Bogota had largely ceded to Marxist guerrillas. Then, improved refining techniques enabled traffickers to increase output. To combat the growers, the White House has asked for $1.6 billion in aid. For foreign...
...herbicides over thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs and airstrips and then deliver Colombian police and military forces to destroy them. This drug smothering from the air has a credible track record in the region, cutting narcotics production in both Bolivia and Peru over the past decade...