US Evaluation of Bolivian Drug Control Misleading and Inaccurate
US officials continue to cling to eradication figures and old yardsticks to evaluate Bolivia’s new approach to coca cultivation and drug control. The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)1…
De-vilifying the coca leaf
The United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs entered into force in 1964, making illegal the international trade the coca leaf. Since his inauguration, Bolivian President Evo Morales has fought…
Broadcast on Coca in Bolivia: March 8
Listen to a story by journalist Mary Stucky of Round Earth Productions and facilitated by AIN on the importance of the cato of coca on BBC's "The World." Listen online…
Chronicle on the Scene Feature: Bolivia’s “Coca, Yes, Cocaine No” Policy is Beginning to Work
Originally published in the Drug War Chronicle , Issue #474, 4/23/07 On the long, arduous highway connecting Puno, the last major city in the Peruvian south, with the Bolivian capital…