Hundreds of Colombian peasants returned home from Ecuador on Thursday after the government promised to protect them from leftist rebels trying to sabotage a coca eradication campaign. Some 1,600 Colombians from two southern villages fled to Ecuador last week, afraid of being caught in the crossfire between government coca eradication efforts and armed rebels who depend on coca — and the end product, cocaine — to finance their insurgency. Full Story
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