Bolivians depend on coca plant despite anti-drug efforts

or more than 30 years, a drug war was waged in Bolivia with the help of the U.S. drug enforcement administration. Bolivias Yungas region is one of the worlds leading sources of the coca plant — the key ingredient in the production of cocaine. But Bolivias leftist leader, Eva Morales — himself a former coca farmer — recently expelled U.S. drug enforcement agents from the country. As Worldfocus Ivette Feliciano, Bryan Myers and Ara Ayer discovered, many impoverished Bolivians depend on the coca plant for their livelihood. Worldfocus video podcast: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/worldfocus http://worldfocus.org/