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11-02-2009, 03:30 PM
Milton Martinez, director of the Forestry School at the UASD, has told Listin Diario that complicity by state security organizations in charge of surveillance in the border area is common and widely known. "To make charcoal you have to cut trees, pile them up, wait days for the charcoal to burn, and transport it. This is why it is essential to follow the money trail," he told Listin Diario. He said that it was impossible to transport and market the charcoal in the area without military complicity. He recommended developing a model forestry project that permits large-scale energy production.

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