The election of ex-coca grower Evo Morales has transformed this negative dynamic somewhat. Significant shifts in the nation’s drug policy and alternative funding sources have lessened Bolivia’s dependence on U.S.…
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…
Adalberto Rojas and members of the APDH have been receiving threats and harassment since 2003 because of their legitimate work in defence of human rights of peasants, indigenous peoples and…
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…