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Ecuador: weedkiller launched from sky in name of the war to drug

Quito, Ecuador - Five planes and two helicopters flew on the cocaine fields bordering Columbia

Last December 20, two Dyncorp US choppers and five Columbia Army airplanes, flew over Ecuador villages bordering Columbia: aircraft have been launched for 8 hours weedkiller to destroy cocaine plants. It is the fifth time that weedkiller were launched on Ecuador territory: according to the Inter-institutional Committee Against Air Fumigation, the true aim would not be cocaine, but the farmers, reported...

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Rome, Italy, 01/05/2005 20:52
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