YUNGAS, Bolivia (AP) — Tomas Zavala performs a ritual ahead of each workday in his coca field. Deep in the lush green mountains of Bolivia’s Yungas region, the 69-year-old farmer closes his eyes, ...

A woman shows coca leaves during an event for the National Day of Acullico (chewing of the plant) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in January. Then-Bolivian President Luis Arce said his countrymen have shown ...

Among the coca-growing peasants of Bolivia’s Yungas region (the country’s prime legal cultivation zone) is a substantial Afro-Bolivian population—descendants of slaves who were brought in by the ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — El gobierno del presidente Rodrigo Paz retomó el jueves las tareas de erradicación de las plantaciones de hoja de coca en Bolivia suspendidas casi un año atrás por disputas ...

I’m honestly surprised it’s taken this long for a coca leaf spirit to make a debut. After all, coca was used in the world’s ...

On Wednesday, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales signed into a law a bill passed by the country’s congress that nearly doubles the area of national territory open to coca leaf cultivation. Law 906, or ...

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Dec. 17 (UPI) --The government of President Rodrigo Paz said it will push to revise Bolivia's legal framework for coca leaf cultivation after official data showed that planted areas exceed authorized ...

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