DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Bolivia Buys More Arms To Fight Drug Traffickers....NSI News Source Info # 1557

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Bolivia Buys More Arms To Fight Drug Traffickers....NSI News Source Info # 1557

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Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources UPI

(NSI News Source Info) LA PAZ, Bolivia, - February 10, 2011: Bolivia is buying six Chinese combat aircraft as part of its effort to correct its image as a country that isn't doing as much as it should to cut off the narcotics trail to North America.

Political feuds between Bolivia and its neighbors and a stormy relationship with Washington hasn't helped Bolivia's campaign against drug overlords who regularly challenge the authority of the state.

Organized crime operators use aircraft to move drugs with impunity in a twin challenge to the government's control of the national airspace and its ineffectual crackdown on fearless drug traffickers in a transnational, multimillion-dollar illicit trade.

After President Evo Morales ordered the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to leave Bolivia in 2008, accusing U.S. officials of complicity in the drug trade as well as political troubles, the anti-narcotics fight fizzled out. U.S. officials dismissed both charges.

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