U.S. To Cut Bolivian Aid Because of Problems of Narcotics Cooperation

The State Department announced at the end of September that it will cut off $8.7 million in aid to Bolivia because the government was not doing enough to eradicate the coca crop which ultimately is used to manufacture cocaine.  Because Bolivia has not met crop eradication requirements ordered by Congress last year as a requirement for U.S. aid, Bolivia will lose $7.5 million of its scheduled $6.7 million of economic aid and $1.2 million of its $2.4 million in military assistance.