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Article: Paco: Drug War Blowback in Argentina
- Article from:
- NACLA Report on the Americas
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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About two years ago, the global media discovered paco, a cheap, highly addictive form of cocaine that was ravaging the impoverished neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. In explaining why paco had become so prevalent, most articles emphasized the widespread poverty that followed Argentina's economic crisis beginning in 2001. But a NACLA investigation supported by the Samuel Chavkin Investigative Journalism Fund finds that the more important, if infrequently discussed, factor in the paco phenomenon is a shift in cocaine trafficking in the region-largely as a response to the U.S.-led War on Drugs.
BEGINNING IN MID-2006, NEWS REPORTS IN English began appearing about paco, a cheap, highly addictive ...