Coca in Bolivia by Roberto Guerra (0 images)

Since coming to office in 2006, Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, has promised to not only rewrite the constitution to give rights to the indigenous majority and redistribute national wealth to benefit the poor, but also is allowing an increase in legal coca production while still fighting narco-trafficking. Despite protests by the US, so far this policy has drastically reduced the human rights violations that had been associated with the US-sponsored "War on...
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Since coming to office in 2006, Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, has promised to not only rewrite the constitution to give rights to the indigenous majority and redistribute national wealth to benefit the poor, but also is allowing an increase in legal coca production while still fighting narco-trafficking. Despite protests by the US, so far this policy has drastically reduced the human rights violations that had been associated with the US-sponsored "War on Drugs" for the last 25 years.
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