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Bolivia's most lucrative crop in the 1980s was coca. The country was the second largest grower of coca in the world, supplying approximately 15 percent of the United States cocaine market in the late 1980s.
In 2014, coca plantations were discovered in Mexico, [24] and in 2020 in Honduras, ... In Bolivia bags of coca leaves are sold in local markets and by street vendors.
Coca leaf. Cocaleros are the coca leaf growers of Peru and Bolivia.In response to U.S.-funded attempts to eradicate and fumigate coca crops in the Chapare region of Bolivia, cocaleros joined with other grassroots indigenous organizations in the country, such as unionized mine workers and peasants to contest the government.
In Peru, areas planted with coca rose by 18% last year, and in Bolivia — where there are no figures for 2022 — there was an increase of 4% a year earlier, she said.
A coca plantation in the Yungas region of Bolivia in 1924 where historically cultivation had been done using slave labor. Many newly brought slaves died due to the weather. Coca leaves helped with alleviating altitude sickness. [8] Just like the mines of Potosí, coca plantations became a cash-crop of the region.
The country's former President Evo Morales, a longtime leader of coca growers’ unions who famously threw the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency out of Bolivia in 2009, used his office to develop ...
Coca eradication in Colombia. Coca eradication is a strategy promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its "war on drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the manufacture of cocaine.
Narcotics in Bolivia, South America, is a subject that primarily involves the coca crop, used in the production of the drug, cocaine. Trafficking and corruption have been two of the most prominent negative side-effects of the illicit narcotics trade in Bolivia and the country's government has engaged in negotiations with the United States (US) as result of the industry's ramifications.