Bolivia to fight cocaine trade with its own funds

[Joanne98]

Bolivia, the world’s No. 3 cocaine producer, will fund an anti-narcotics unit for the first time next year as it seeks to reduce foreign involvement in fighting trafficking, an official said yesterday.

The Andean country will invest US$16 million in the unit, which now depends heavily on aid from the United States and the European Union.

“One of Bolivia’s responsibilities is to tackle drug trafficking, with our own ... resources, with our vision, with our hard work,” Ilder Cejas, an anti-narcotics advisor working for the Interior Ministry, told reporters.

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[High Plains]

1. They want the US out. Very understandable.