LA PAZ, Bolivia —Pope Francis enjoyed an in-flight tea made with from coca leaves — illegal in the United States — to prevent altitude sickness during a visit to the world's highest capital city. Sitting at an altitude of 13,000 feet, La Paz has air 30 percent thinner than at sea ...
S MARCH INTO LA PAZ RIGHTS-BOLIVIA: 1,000 COCA GROWERS MARCH INTO LA PAZRIGHTS-BOLIVIA: 1,000 COCA GROWERS MARCH INTO LA PAZJuan Carlos Rocha
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Coca Growers Resist Bolivia Crackdown; la Paz Faces Cutoff of U.S. Funds
In 1935, the US Narcotics Bureau ruled il- legal the export of "Merchandise No. 5" (= coca and kola extract) which, with monetary persuasion, Coca-Cola managed to reverse in 1937 [76]. On instigation from Peru, after a brief fieldwork in Bolivia and Peru in 1949, the UN Economic ...
“The house of the coca plant” ¡ a real life experience with the coca plant. It is located at the Yungas region of La Paz , the main zone of legal and traditional coca cultivation in Bolivia. Here you can see ancient coca plantations, learn all about its agriculture, and taste ...
its representative in Mexico, says: “Coca-Cola does not buy coca leaf.” It’s also been made public that the Albo Export, a company owned by Bolivian Fernando Alborta, has exported coca from Peru and Bolivia in recent years, and that between 1997 and 1999 it sent 340 tons of coca ...
While we were on the ferry over to theIsla del Sol, we were subjected to a monologue from a self-impressed British guy wearing colorful over-sized sunglasses and a shark’s tooth necklace. All the awesome places he’s been! All the incredible things he’s done! He had a bag of coca...
The U.S. Embassy in La Paz estimates that Bolivia has a total of about 100,000 acres in coca production, and about 70,000 of that is in the Chapare. The new law says that virtually all Chapare coca must be eradicated, leaving no more than about 30,000 acres of legal production. ...
Wachu Wachu : cocoa cultivation and Aymara identity in the Yunkas of La Paz (Bolivia)Andean indiansEthnicity Anthropology FolkloreNo abstract availableSpeddingAlisonLondon School of Economics & Political Science