Workers Destroy Rebels’ Coca Crop
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Colombia sent more than 900 workers with shovels into a nature reserve to destroy coca plants grown by Marxist rebels.
Police say the eradication campaign is aimed mainly at restoring the Macarena National Park’s ecosystem.
But President Alvaro Uribe would also like to rob the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, of cocaine sales, one of its main sources of revenue. He ordered the eradication after guerrillas killed 29 soldiers in the area last month.
The workers, brought by helicopter, were guarded by 1,500 soldiers and police.
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