February 2007
TNI
Ricardo Soberón
December 2005
Drugs and Democracy
The US financed "war on drugs" in Bolivia has not only failed in its intention to diminish the flow of cocaine into the United States, it has also negatively impacted the human rights situation in the country.
November 2005
TNI
Bolivia has lived through more than two decades of supply reduction policies, but still figures as the world's third cocaine-producing country.
April 2004
Hugo Cabieses
Allison Spedding Pallet
This issue of Drugs and Conflict analyses cocalero peasant organisations in Peru and Bolivia and their interaction with successive governments during the peasant mobilisations of recent years.
January 2002
Drugs and Democracy
An impressive reduction of the coca-cultivated area has been achieved within the framework of Plan Dignidad, but this ‘success’ has exacted a heavy toll in terms of the impoverishment and criminalisation of the Bolivian coca leaf-growing peasantry, or cocaleros, as they are known.
December 1997
TNI
Theo Roncken
Anti-drug missions in Bolivia have frequently been transformed into public scandals. These scandals emphasize and sometimes prove the direct involvement of high government officials in drug trafficking and their protection of drug lords.
April 1997
Theo Roncken
The narcotics police and the secret police have been implicated in cocaine trafficking in Bolivia since the late 1950s.
