1. In at least one border town in Ecuador, Colombians are buying land and the chemicals used to process cocaine. 2. The Colombians process the cocaine and ship it to Mexico. 3. Pastrana said the United States and Europe should stem the laundering of drug money and control the export of chemicals used in Colombia to process cocaine. 4. Chilean and Bolivian police broke up a ring that smuggled large amounts of chemicals used to process cocaine in Bolivia, police said Wednesday. 5. He vowed tighter government controls on foreigners traveling in and out of the zone, overflights, and the entry of chemicals used to process cocaine. 6. Police were fighting peasants protesting government efforts to eradicate thousands of hectares of coca, the plant used to process cocaine. 7. Coca leaves are the raw material from which cocaine is processed. 8. Coca paste, made from coca leaves, is the raw material from which cocaine is processed. 9. Coca leaf is the lucrative raw material from which cocaine is processed. 10. Under pressure from the United States, Bolivia has been cracking down on the sale of coca leaf, from which cocaine is processed. |
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