WOMEN COCA AND POPPY GROWERS MOBILIZING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Credit: Andean Information Network. Photo taken in Trópico of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Rural women currently represent 25% of the global population. They play a decisive role in sustaining and improving rural…
The World’s Biggest Legal Coca Industry Might Get Shut Down
Morales’s departure and the rhetoric around the lead-up to elections in May is already affecting coca farmers negatively, said Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network and a researcher…
Balas en Vez de Diálogo: La Erradicación de la Coca en la Selva Central del Perú
Noviembre 4, 2019 Kathryn Ledebur, Andean Information Network Thomas Grisaffi, University of Reading El gobierno peruano comenzó la erradicación forzosa de cultivos de hoja de coca, la materia prima para…
Bullets in Lieu of Dialogue: Coca Eradication in Peru’s Central Jungle
Introduction Peru’s government began forced eradication of coca crops, the raw material for cocaine, on November 1st in a corner of the central jungle that had been off limits to…