Thousands who have lost their livelihoods to record-breaking US-backed effort demand their government provide them with sustainable crop alternativesEdma Duran uses a machete to salvage what leaves she can from the family’s coca plot,which government workers have just destroyed in a record-breaking US-backed eradication campaign that has affected roughly a half million Peruvians.“This is what we live off,” says Duran, and who lives with her husband and six children in a village of 110 people that lacks electricity,phones and running water and is five hours from the nearest doctor. Related: final flight looms for US-funded air war on drugs as Colombia counts health cost Related: Pope Francis drinks coca leaf tea on South American tour Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com