A Change of Mind on Coca
Este es un articulo de “The Economist” publicado el 3 de mayo, donde hay un analisis general de los recientes acontecimientos en Peru.
DURING Alan García’s disastrous first term as Peru’s president in the 1980s, his country suffered hyperinflation, a murderous guerrilla insurgency and soaring drug trafficking. Elected again last year, he seems determined to avoid history repeating itself. He has kept his predecessor’s responsible economic policies, which have ushered in booming growth. And Mr García says he is preparing to crack down on drugs.
Having fallen in the 1990s, output of coca, the raw material for cocaine, is rising sharply. In 2005, according to the United Nations, Peru had 48,000 hectares of coca. That figure may have risen to 60,000, a fairly close second to Colombia. In recent years, Peru’s coca growers have got together in unions, as they have long done in Bolivia. Mr García was at first conciliatory to them. In December, he suggested that coca leaves might be used for salad, saying that a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar would mask their bitter taste.
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