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  Coca Workers and Colombia To Negotiate Eradication
Posted by FoM on June 16, 2001 at 10:26:23 PT
By Juan O. Tamayo 
Source: Miami Herald 

science Some 3,000 coca workers who rioted in the town of Tibú to protest the U.S.-backed spraying of their fields with herbicides have returned home but will meet with government envoys to negotiate a voluntary eradication pact, officials said Friday.

The disturbances were the first outbreak of public violence against stepped-up Colombian government efforts -- financed and operated by the U.S. State Department -- to eradicate coca fields with aerial spraying of a herbicide.

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