Yungas Coca Growers Seek Industrialization of Coca but Split on its Legalization
Coca Leaf Policy under the Morales Administration President Evo Morales’s policies on the cultivation, sale, and manufacture of coca leaf are inspiring a variety of economic opportunities in Bolivia’s rural…
Bolivia Working Group Articles
The memos in this packet assess the Morales administration’s first year and key policy issues, including drug control, the constitutional assembly, the economy, trade relations, land reform, gas nationalization, debt…
The Leahy Amendment
The Leahy Amendment is a law passed in 1997 that prohibits U.S. funding of security forces whose members have been credibly implicated in human rights violations, stating: None of the…
Human Rights and the War on Drugs
History of a Failed War In 1986 President Reagan declared war on drugs by citing drug trafficking a threat to US national security. Three years later the Bush administration followed…