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Cocaine trade pushes gorgeted puffleg on to endangered Red List
Cocaine trade revitalizes Peruvian rebels (AP)

In this April 24, 2009 photo, a coca farmer walks on drying coca leaves as his family looks on in Omaya in Peru's Apurimac valley. Shining Path rebels based in the Apurimac valley produce their own cocaine and control its outflow, according to the chief of Peru's anti-drug police Gen. Miguel Hidalgo.  Peru is the world's No. 2 cocaine producer after Colombia. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - The last town on a rutted dirt road in Peru's most prolific cocaine-producing highland valley, Union Mantaro has no police post, no church and no health clinic. Its 600 people lack running water and electricity.



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