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Latin
America:
Peruvian
Coca
Leader
Nancy
Obregon
Arrested
12/23/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/416/nancyobregon.shtml
Peru's
CPN Radio reported December 16 that coca grower leader Nancy Obregon
was arrested earlier in the day in the Upper Huallaga River valley town
of Tingo Maria. According to the network, the National Police held
Obregon on an arrest warrant issued after she and fellow cocalero leader
Elsa Malpartida failed to show up for a sentencing hearing on charges they
incited riots during cocalero strike in Tingo Maria in May 2004.
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| Nancy Obregon in Mérida |
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A similar
warrant has been issued for Malpartida, whom CPN reported was planning
travel to neighboring Bolivia. A spokesman for the Peruvian Interior
Ministry told CPN police were searching for her.
Obregon
and Malpartida are the top leaders of the National Confederation of Coca
Growers, one of the leading cocalero groupings, and have been militant
in opposing government eradication programs and demanding the right to
grow the traditional Peruvian crop.
As
far as DRCNet can determine, Obregon continued to be held as of press time.
Obregon
was a speaker at DRCNet's 2003 "Out from the Shadows" conference in
the city of Mérida, in the Yucatan province of Mexico. Click
here to read Drug
War Chronicle's interview with Obregon.
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