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A New Constitution for Bolivia

          Although some U.S. officials have expressed concern that the Morales government has "demonstrated inclinations to consolidate executive power and promote potentially anti-democratic reforms through the Constituent Assembly and other…

Bolivia shifts tactics in its war on cocaine

Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle .  President focuses on eradicating means of making drug, and not on coca farming Puerto Villarroel, Bolivia — As Bolivian soldiers torch a…

Crisis or Opportunity? Bolivian Drug Control Policy and the U.S. Response

Click here to view this joint Andean Information Network and Washington Office on Latin America report as a PDF. The December 2005 election of indigenous leader and coca grower Evo…

Colombia politics: Coca and cocaine in the Andes

Progress against coca in Colombia is threatened by the perilous politics of the drug "war" and, as always, by market forces LA MACARENA National Park is a dramatic mountain ridge…