Photo Essay: Bolivia's Cocaine Trade: Child Mules. Photo 9 of 15
Buyers tape packs of cocaine to children for transport to the city.
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Buyers tape packs of cocaine to children for transport to the city.
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What a stunning picture!
A family packing cocaine on their children. I never saw that before...
Posted by: Andy on 07/17/08 at 4:52 PM Respond
Feed them poor farmers ,give them ,work! and they wont do that after you have shown them what it does to other people!We lost the war on drugs allready.but then no prisons no work?this has got to stop and theyre are ways!!
Posted by: anthonybauwens on 07/18/08 at 12:33 PM Respond
The war on drugs just made their business more profitable. Why should they stop? This is more lucrative and steady than "honest" work in a region pitted by corruption and an unsteady economy. "What it does to other people" is not an issue here. They don't care, nor do they have any reason to care.
Posted by: Paj on 07/23/08 at 9:59 AM Respond