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.
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