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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.
Sales of coca leaf amounted to approximately US$265 million in 2009, representing 14% of all agricultural sales and 2% of Bolivia's GDP. [4] Coca is legally sold in wholesale markets in Villa Fátima in La Paz and in Sacaba, Cochabamba.
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.
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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 ...
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.
"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 ...