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On the recordSeptember 19, 1991
The Government of Peru's agreement with the coca farmers opposing drug trafficking and in favor of alternative development represents an imaginative approach which we would like to support.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater on Peru's Drug Interdiction Efforts

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