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On the recordJune 23, 2015
You know how difficult it is to manually eradicate a coca tree. You can't just machete these things. You need to pull them up by the roots.
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

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Highlighting the challenges of manually eradicating coca plants.

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