[Marxism] An unlikely side effect of the global food crisis?

["Fred Fuentes" <fred.fuentes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Food rise has Bolivia's coca farmers planting rice instead of cocaine

SINAHOTA, Bolivia — Soaring food prices may achieve what the United
States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: Persuade Bolivian
farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw
ingredient.

The unlikely advocate for change is Bolivian President Evo Morales,
who as leader of a powerful coca growers union fought U.S.
crop-substitution programs for two decades.

However, rising grain prices and food shortages have made him
reconsider....rest at
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2008/07/food-rise-has-bolivias-coca-farmers.html

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