1. An indigenous leader, he has surged in the polls on pledges to fight coca eradication efforts and to nationalize industries. 2. But when the demilitarized zone was created, the government stopped all coca eradication efforts in the area. 3. Gonzalez said the figures show coca eradication efforts are succeeding. 4. Justice Minister Romulo Gonzalez said Wednesday that the figures show coca eradication efforts, supported with hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid, are succeeding. 5. Some Andean leaders say successful coca eradication efforts in Bolivia and Peru have increased production in Colombia. 6. That would suggest coca eradication efforts are failing, even as fumigation efforts have intensified. 7. The roadblocks spread to the Bolivian Andean highlands, where farmers demanded revision of land reform legislation and an end to coca leaf eradication efforts. |
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