Bolivia: Bush administration to reconsider drug policy; Evo refuses to expel U.S. officials

In what is viewed as a “major concession,” State Department officials hinted that coca farming may be allowed as part of a revaluation of U.S. counternarcotics policy in Bolivia. Meanwhile, Evo Morales refused to give in to demands by domestic coca growers to expel U.S. representatives from Chapere, a main coca growing area of Bolivia.

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