18 August 2011

PERU: Humala Rethinks Coca Eradication...Suspends Program.

                                            BBC


      The world's number 2 cocaine producer...Peru...has suddenly suspended coca eradication while it reevaluates the program.
      New President Ollanta Humala has recently spoken of decriminalising coca farmers and even the low-level cocaine processors and smugglers.
      For ex-Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi...the suspension sends the wrong signal.
     "It says to coca producers and guerrillas, 'Go ahead, plant your coca, nothing will happen'," he said.