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This framework was effectively modified by agreement between President Carlos Mesa and coca growers in 2004, permitting current growers to maintain a cato (1,600 m 2 [10]) of coca per family. [ 11 ] The Constituent Assembly of 2006-2007 included an article on coca in the new Constitution, which was approved by referendum in 2009.
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At Bolivia’s initiative, organized by Colombia and Bolivia with the support of Canada, Czechia, Malta, Mexico, Switzerland and OHCHR, the World Health Organization (WHO), is conducting a ‘critical review’ of the coca leaf. In 2025, based on its findings, the WHO may recommend changes in coca’s classification under the UN drug control ...
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.
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 ...
Bolivia’s coca farmers are battling for control of their main market in the highland city of La Paz.A fire broke out near where protesters and police clashed on Monday, with both sides blaming ...
North Bolivia Plantation A produce farmer examining beans grown in a greenhouse. Bolivia contains slightly over 108 million hectares of land. [22] Forest or woodland comprised 40 percent of all land, or 56 million hectares, in the late 1980s. [22] Pasture accounted for a quarter of total land, or about 27 million hectares. [22]
"In those years, Ecuador began a tough campaign to eradicate coca plantations," explained Pazmino. Coca leaf is the main ingredient used to make cocaine. But just like in other countries, the ...