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Bolivia to Withdraw From Drugs Convention Over Coca Classification
Mattia Cabitza
Bolivia is set to withdraw from an international narcotics convention in protest at its classification of coca leaves as an illegal drug.
President Evo Morales, who is also the leader of one of the country's main coca producers…
D-Day for Bolivia’s Coca Chewing Amendment
Martin Jelsma
Today is the deadline for countries to submit objections to Bolivia’s proposed amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. As far as we know, six countries have f…
Bolivia to Fund Own Anti-Drug Unit, Wants to Reduce ‘U.S. Influence’
The Bolivian government will fund an anti-drug unit for the first time next year in a bid to reduce foreign involvement in its fight against the cocaine trade. The primary foreign country involved in Bolivian anti-drug matters is the United States, although it currently gets some added from the European Union, too. Bolivia is the [...]
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