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  2. Coca in Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    Government efforts to eradicate the expansion of coca cultivation in Bolivia began in 1983, when Bolivia committed itself to a five-year program to reduce coca production and created the Coca Eradication Directorate (Dirección de la Reconversión de la Coca—Direco) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Campesino Affairs, and Livestock Affairs. [6]

  3. File:Ivirgarzama, Bolívia´s Puerto Villarroel county.jpg

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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.

  4. Colombia’s coca crops are booming. That may lead to more drug ...

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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.

  5. Coca eradication - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. A brew of ancient coca is Bolivia's buzzy new beer. But it's ...

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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 ...

  7. File:In the coca region of the Yungas, Bolivia. (5665325660 ...

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  8. Bolivia coca farmers battle for control of market

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    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 ...

  9. Coca - Wikipedia

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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 ...