Bolivia Halts US Anti-Drugs Work-- BBC News
Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced he is suspending "indefinitely" the operations of the US drug enforcement agency in his country.
Mr Morales accused the agency of having encouraged anti-government protests in Bolivia in September.
He did not say whether its staff would be asked to leave the country, as coca- growers have been pressing him to do.
Bolivia's first indigenous president once served as the leader of the country's union of coca-growers.
Coca is the raw material used in the production of cocaine and is widely grown in Bolivia.
Relations between Bolivia and the US have been strained since Evo Morales took power in January 2006.
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My Comment: With no outside observers permitted into the country to monitor coca production, this sets up a bad precedent for future narco-trafficking law enforcement. To defeat the evils of narcotics, international cooperation is the key .... but Bolivia has other ideas.
The U.S. is right to suspend trade assistance to the country, there is no point to provide aid to a country whose government condemns you all the time.
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