Rethinking Alternative Development in Bolivia
When an opposition movement supported by the coca grower’s political party forced the resignation of Bolivia’s President Sánchez de Lozada in October 2003, it was fueled in part by long-standing…
Bolivians pay dearly for U.S. war on drugs
Originally published in the Miami Herald, Op-Ed section on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002. Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada meets today with President Bush in Washington, D.C. The perennial…
Keeping Coca a Cash Crop; Bolivian Peasants Fight U.S. Campaign to End Cultivation of Their ‘Sacred
Originally published in The Washington Post: Sep 29, 1995. pg. A.18. The circle of coca growers in this small town drew closer when one of the leaders, a man who…