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Bolivia Sees Enormous Drop In Cocaine Trafficking After Kicking Out DEA [1]

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Thu, 08/27/2015 - 09:25

The US Federal Government has long been accused of doing far more to assist the global drug trade than fight against it. They were caught assisting the Sinaloa drug cartel [2], they helped save Afghanistan's opium production [3], and the DEA may be little more than a spy agency in disguise [4]. Well now there's even more hard evidence from Bolivia:

Drug dealing now represents less than 1% of the Andean country's GDP, in a sustained reduction ever since the expulsion of the United States DEA agency.

According to data from the United Nations, Bolivia achieved a reduction in the amount of coca fields — the plant which is used as a raw material for the elaboration of cocaine — approximately in an 11% since the year 2014, and in over a 30% since 2010, which amounts to four consecutive years of decline, from over 30 thousand to some 20 thousand hectares.

Read more... (en.institutomanquehue.org) [5]

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[1] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/bolivia-sees-enormous-drop-cocaine-trafficking-after-kicking-out-dea
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1
[3] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/afghanistan-the-making-of-a-narco-state-20141204
[4] http://www.cepr.net/blogs/the-americas-blog/remember-when-venezuela-and-bolivia-kicked-the-us-dea-out-of-their-countries-accusing-it-of-espionage-looks-like-they-were-right
[5] http://en.institutomanquehue.org/countries/bolivia/with-no-dea-in-sight,-bolivia-keeps-reducing-coca-crops.html
[6] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/category/type-post/world-news-politics