Coca and society in Chapare.(Essay)(President Evo Morales, Bolivia)(Brief article)

From: New Internationalist | Date: October 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Bolivia's new President, Evo Morales, learned his politics during his years as the leader of the coca growers from the tropical Chapare region of the country. The 1990s witnessed constant clashes as the Bolivian Government, pressured by the US, tried to eradicate Chapare's coca plantations by force. Many of the Quechua peasants who live here come from militant tin-mining families and migrated from the Bolivian highlands when their jobs disappeared in the 1950s. Their political passion and sophistication has made them a bastion of ...

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