I. BOLIVIA: ANTIDRUG OPERATIONS SHOWING RESULTS
IN ITS MOST EXTENSIVE COUNTERNARCOTICS CAMPAIGN EVER, IA PAZ TRAFFICKER OPERATIONS _IN THETHE LARGESTREGION IN BOLIVIA.
QPERATign. fiHQST ?QHE INVOLVES^HORE THAN
IS TO DISRUPT THE CF COCA PRODUCTS BY.LIGHT AIRCRAFT TO LABORATORIES-IN BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, AND BRAZIL. ACCORDING TO THE US EMBASSY, SINCE..THE OPERATION BEGAN IN MARCH, MORE THAN0 KG OF COCA LEAF, WtJQO KG, OF COCAINE BASE, AND LARGE .QUANTITIES OF PRECURSOR CHEMICALS HAVE BEEN SEIZED. AT LEAST LABORATORIES AND- 16 AIRSTRI PS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, AND SOME PERSONS, MANY OF WHOM WERE BELIEVED TO BE WORKING FOR. THE COLOMBIAN DRUG CARTELS, HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. THE SPECIAL COUNTERNARCOTICS'POLICE FORCE, UMOPAB, HAS PROVED HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL.
SOME TRAFFICKERS WHO WERE FLYING COCA PRODUCTS FROM THEPROCFjjrjjr^tABQRJTORIES ELSEWHERE ARE NCW MOVING THEM BY LAND ITHERS ARE STOCKPILING COCAINE AND
SUSPENDTNG SHIPPING OPERATIONS UNTIL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES ARE REDUCED.
COMMENT: THE TRAFFICKERS REMAIN ABLE TO MOVE THEIR PRODUCT OUT OF THE CHAPARE AND TO MOVE PROCESSING CHEMICALS IN, ALBEIT AT
greater expense, effort, and risk. although THE operation shous la
,*fI -Increased commitment to counternarcotics operations, long-term
"sjuptxoh of trafficking would REQUIRE large numbers of police to OPER-'E expanded road checkpoints. regular river patrols. and continued aerial surveillance. "
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