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Cocaine Trade Fuels Guerrilla Movement In Columbia

A February 20^th article by Jared Kotler for the Associated Press, exploits the deepening involvement of the Cocaine Trade with the Arms Trade. In his article, Kotler describes a recent operation near the Brazilian border that helped to reveal the connection between the country’s 37-year war and the illicit market for Cocaine.

The operation turned up such articles as notebooks that recorded transactions between cocaine traffickers in Brazil and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia).

Among officials present at the raid, General Peter Pace, a US Forces commander in Latin America, said, “FARC and narco-trafficking were one in the same in this region.”

The troops that performed the commando raid turned up 12 labs for manufacturing the coca leaf into cocaine, airstrips, rebel camps and 25,000 acres of coca. Kotler states that official sources quote 2 tons of cocaine could be produced in one week at this installation.

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