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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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3. Absolutely! It's a painful, horrible truth.

Reply to mactime (Reply #1)

Fri May 18, 2012, 12:51 PM

May 2012

Also, a lot of the current coca growers used to be coffee growers until their government ended neccessary supports for them, making it far harder, and far more expensive, if not impossible to keep planting coffee.

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Kinda backwards if you ask me mactime May 2012 #1

Absolutely! It's a painful, horrible truth. Judi Lynn May 2012 #3

Trade deal with U.S. could harm Colombia farmers Judi Lynn May 2012 #2