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Bolivian Gov't backs down
Hardline Collapses: a 90 day truce between the Bolivian government and coca farmers.....
2/9: In the predawn Saturday negotiations with coca growers' leader Evo Morales, the embattled Bolivian government, faced with national paralysis from the blockades reported on below in Narco News, cancelled Supreme Decree # 96415 this morning, relegalizing the sale of coca leaf in the Chapare region, reopening the Sacaba Coca Market and the coca farmers' independent media outlet, Radio Sovereignty.
The agreement, signed by the government, by Evo Morales, by indigenous leader Felipe Quispe and labor leader Oscar Olivera, calls for a 90 day truce between the government and coca farmers. Calm returns to Bolivia... for now. Congress will reopen case of expulsion of Evo Morales. U.S. Embassy, silent on the failure and collapse of its hardline anti-coca policy....
Full Narconews Report
The agreement, signed by the government, by Evo Morales, by indigenous leader Felipe Quispe and labor leader Oscar Olivera, calls for a 90 day truce between the government and coca farmers. Calm returns to Bolivia... for now. Congress will reopen case of expulsion of Evo Morales. U.S. Embassy, silent on the failure and collapse of its hardline anti-coca policy....
Full Narconews Report
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