21. They control vast tracts of southern jungle, financing their insurgency with kidnappings and by taxing peasants who grow drug crops and protecting drug traffickers. 22. They control vast tracts of southern jungle, financing their insurgency by taxing peasants who grow drug crops and protecting drug traffickers. 23. They have turned increasingly to kidnapping, extortion, and drug trafficking to help finance their insurgencies. 24. U.S. officials have advocated spraying as the best way of eliminating coca from fields that are often defended by leftist guerrillas who partially finance their insurgency by protecting traffickers. 25. UNITA rebels have used Angolan diamonds, which can easily be identified by diamond experts, to finance their insurgency. |
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