AFP – Friday 8 May, 2009
Some of their children have died, some are in jail. All are victims of the Paco craze. Image: AFP
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — A group of women are taking on police and drug dealers with equanimity here, risking all to save their drug-addled children from “Paco” — a cocaine derivative sweeping Argentina with alarming ferocity.
They are vaguely reminiscent of another women’s group, the “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo” who demanded during weekly vigils that the government account for the whereabouts of sons and daughters who went missing during the country’s “dirty war” of the 1970s and 1980s.
But the “Mothers Against Paco” know all too well where their children have gone: some have died, some are in jail. All are victims of the Paco craze. . .
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