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PERU: DRUG FLIGHTS EXPECTED TO RESUME BUT ERADICATION TEMPORARILY HALTED.
NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs, July, 2001
Even as Peru anticipates a US resumption of drug-interdiction flights, it has temporarily suspended coca eradication in the Apurimac and Huallaga valleys after thousands of coca growers protested against the program.
In agreeing to halt the eradication program, the government ended three days of protests by coca growers from the Alto Huallaga, Monzon, and Padre Abad valleys.
On June 28, Peru's anti-drug agency (Desarrollo de Vida sin Drogas, Devida) signed an agreement to suspend all coca eradication programs in the Alto Huallaga valley.
Nils Ericsson, head of Devida, said, "It is true that, because of the unprecedented social unrest in coca-growing areas," Peru has "agreed to stop the forced eradication program in some areas for the time...
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