Thatcher Wanted to Infest Peru With Coca-Eating Moths: New Docs
Thatcher Wanted to Infest Peru With Coca-Eating Moths: New Docs
The Eloria noyesi moth exclusively feeds on coca leaves. | Photo: Reuters
Published 30 December 2016
An idea to introduce a coca-eating moth to Peru to eradicate the drug without the country's permission was an "ingenious solution," wrote the former UK head of state.
Margaret Thatcher wanted to eradicate cocaine in Peru with moths, according to newly-released documents, which also reveal the then-British government's top-secret strategy in combating acid house parties and soccer hooligans.
Her peer in the Labour Party, Lord Victor Rothschild, suggested in 1989 that to tackle drug production in Peru, “One might think of aerial sprays, with or without the connivance of the government concerned; and various other methods of introduction, covert as well as overt.”
The moth, Eloria noyesi, is known for its exclusive diet of the coca plant. “While virtually everyone agrees that those who take cocaine or crack, in the various ways available, should be punished, everyone, I think, agrees that it is the ‘drug baron’ who must be mercilessly ‘put down,’” Rothschild also added.
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