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Similar refinement processes transform other plants like poppies and coca into heroin and cocaine.
We did not turn coca into cocaine; the chemicals needed for that are made in countries like the United States.
Colombian soldiers also found eight fuel-processing depots — holding 77,000 barrels of oil — used by the guerrillas for fuel and to process coca into cocaine in makeshift labs.
In Puerto Meluk, a river port with bars blaring vallenato music and stores selling chemicals used to process coca into cocaine, some Embera refugees cooked in a swamp reeking of raw sewage and recounted stories similar to those upriver: of beatings and threats in their villages, then displacement here.
When drug smugglers change coca into cocaine, Morales adds, they change the plant's chemical composition.
The dough, enriched with seriously good olive oil, had been too sticky to transfer to his pizza stone, though, so he had converted the coca into what he joked was a Catalan calzone with the topping folded inside.
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Unless cocaine is legalised, Plan Colombia will drive coca deeper into virgin jungle or into neighbouring countries.The Bush administration's aid request gives only a token nod to such worries: rebaptised as the Andean Regional Initiative, it offers a little extra money for economic development and for Colombia's neighbours (though Congress may yet trim the total).
Long names have a habit of being compressed into shorter ones - "Kentucky Fried Chicken" into "KFC", "Coca-Cola" into "Coke".
But sceptics say that spraying simply drives coca deeper into the jungle.
Producers have also increased efficiencies in the conversion of coca leaf into refined cocaine.
The hope is to "force the coca economy into a crisis", says the local UNDCP representative, René Bastiaans.
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