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Article: Violence erupts when peasants protest drug war U.S.-backed effort to destroy coca plants enrages Colombians
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
- Author:
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As teenage soldiers with bayonets fidgeted nearby, a Catholic
bishop tried to soothe a crowd of angry coca farmers to no avail.
Tear gas, rocks and gasoline bombs were soon flying.
Peasants charged through billowing tear gas on a bridge leading
into Florencia, taunting soldiers in gas masks but failing to break
through barbed-wire barricades.
"Don't let me die," groaned one protester, bleeding heavily from
a shoulder wound as soldiers carried him away on a stretcher. He
died soon after.
Peasants in this southern coca-growing region are responding with
violence to a U.S.-backed campaign to target the drug trade at its
source, by wiping out the shrub whose leaves are processed into ...
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