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Linhas brancas retas são estradas, linhas e faixas brancas sinuosas são rios / Ivirgarzama, almost 10,000 people, at Bolívia´s Puerto Vilarroel county. One of the largest towns in Bolivia´s Cochabamba Tropic. Urban area in white, at image top right. Forest in dark green. Spots in the forest are legal coca plantations.
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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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.
Bolivia stated that "the coca leaf is not, in and of itself, a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance" and stressed that its "legal system recognizes the ancestral nature of the licit use of the coca leaf, which, for much of Bolivia's population, dates back over centuries."
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 ...
"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 ...
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