One expert calls it the 'whack-a-mole policy' to try to deal with the migrating cocaine business. Ben Wiseman
Cocaine: The New Front Lines -- Wall Street Journal
Colombia's success in curbing the drug trade has created more opportunities for countries hostile to the United States. What happens when coca farmers and their allies are in charge?
In the dusty town of Villa Tunari in Bolivia's tropical coca-growing region, farmers used to barricade their roads against U.S.-backed drug police sent to prevent their leafy crop from becoming cocaine. These days, the police are gone, the coca is plentiful and locals close off roads for multiday block parties—not rumbles with law enforcement.
"Today, we don't have these conflicts, not one death, not one wounded, not one jailed," said Leonilda Zurita, a longtime coca-grower leader who is now a Bolivian senator, a day after a 13-piece Latin band wrapped up a boozy festival in town.
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My Comment: These countries are ambivalent to the destruction that their crop is producing .... especially in countries like Mexico. All that they care about is the money .... and in cocoa/cocaine production .... lets face it .... there is a lot of money.
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