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UMOPAR, a police unit with military training, [6] was created in 1983 for the purpose of overseeing coca eradication in Bolivia. They received tactical and technical support from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who maintained an operational base in the Chapare region of the country [7] [8] as did the Bolivian coca eradication and substitution agency Direccion de Reconversion ...
Coca growers from both the Yungas and the Chapare have advocated for policies of "social control" over coca growing, maintaining a pre-set maximum area of cultivation as an alternative to drug war policies. In 2005, cocalero union leader Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia. Morales pursued a combined policy of legalizing coca ...
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.
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’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 ...
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 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."
Killings of 25–33 people in a series of inter-ethnic raids among the Laymi, Qaqachaka and Jucumani ayllus. [13] Panantí masacre 9 November 2001 Panantí, Tarija 7 Hired assailants killed six farmers belonging to the Landless Workers Movement; one assailant was killed. [14] [15] 2003 La Paz riots: 12–13 February 2003 La Paz 31 268 injured