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WAR: Fueled by Coca, Peru’s Rebel War Reignites

The article I read about war was all based off of DRUGS. More specifically, cocaine. Four people were shot dead, including a pregnant women and two children by the first soldiers that came to Rio Seco. Rio Seco was a coca growing village in the mountain jungles of southern Peru. As families fled, a war that terrorized the country for two decades may be coming back. Supposively ending in 2000, the war against the Shining Path rebels took place and took nearly seventy thousand lives. The Shining Path was rebuliding on the profits of Peru's thriving cocaine trade. In the jungle of Vizcatán was Peru’s largest producer of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. Coca that was a raw leaf being chewed since the Spanish conquest is very legal, but cocaine is very illegal. Peru’s estimated cocaine production rose to a 10-year high of about 290 tons, second only to Colombia. Four months after the soldiers had first arrived, the guerrillas came and accused the villagers of collaborating with the military. They were horrible and killed at least 26 people in 2008, including 22 soldiers and police officers, the bloodiest year in almost a decade, according to security analysts. Drugs, drugs, drugs... it is amazing how things can occurr and how reved up people can get over money and drugs. Cocaine is a very big drug and clearly was fought over.