They hold the Government responsible for illegal coca in protected areas | Responsabilizan al Gobierno por coca ilegal en áreas protegidas

El Diario:

Opposition question proliferation of crops

  • The discovery of illegal plantations in protected areas is a reflection that coca production has left government control, said deputy Enrique Urquidi.
  • It is impossible that the illegal coca found in the Amboró Integrated Park in Santa Cruz is destined for drug trafficking, assured the Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo.
Responsabilizan al Gobierno por coca ilegal en áreas protegidas

After the discovery of coca plantations in the Amboró National Park, opposition legislators stated that the production of the leaf “has already gone out of control,” for which they blamed the government of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) for promoting surplus plantations. destined for drug trafficking.

The head of the Citizen Community caucus in Deputies, Enrique Urquidi, maintained that it has been the governments of the Movement towards Socialism that promoted this production during the 14 years in which the six federations of the tropics remained in power, a situation that has changed very little. with the current administration.

“The entire institutional framework of the State has been destroyed, so the Armed Forces and the institutions competent to control these natural areas are not fulfilling their task. With this negligent action they have become accomplices and functional to the current crisis situation,” he emphasized.

Likewise, he said that the underlying issue is that the Government acts as “be judge and jury” in the problem, this to keep the coca sector in power, while trying to position a discourse of fighting against drug trafficking. “It is a sterile fight because there is no political will to attack the origin of the problem, which is surplus coca,” he pointed out.

On the other hand, the Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo, assured that it is “almost impossible” that the nearly 20 hectares (has) of illegal coca found in the Amboró National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area, located in Santa Cruz, are destined for drug trafficking.

“Evidently, it is almost impossible for them to be linked to an activity linked to drug trafficking, two catos of coca leaf are not even enough to produce a kilo of cocaine; Therefore, these plantations are being destined for human consumption,” he said after being consulted about it. (EL DIARIO/Erbol)

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