Peru’s Cocaleros on the March
Farmers and local organizers from Peru’s prominent coca-cultivating regions staged a mass demonstration last April. Led in large part by ...
The Evolution of the FARC: A Guerrilla Group’s Long History
Fierce battles, often characterized by extreme cruelty, marked the early twentieth century in Colombia, as land-hungry peasants and their reformist ...
The Price of Success: Bolivia’s War Against Drugs and the Poor
For the first time in nearly half a century, Bolivia has been dropped from the list of major drug-producing countries ...
The Beat Goes on: The U.S. War on Coca
In unguarded moments during the month-long road blockade of September and October 2000, coca growers and Bolivian security forces chatted, ...
THE MAGIC BULLET
IT IS THE DRUG WARRIOR'S DREAM: A chemical applied from the air that makes coca plants shrivel up and die ...
Coca’s Shining Path
JANUARY 19, 1988. THE ENTIRE POPULATION of Barranca is in the village square, along with resi- dents of 15 other ...
The Hands That Feed Us
Llama blood splashes onto the dry soil, spattering the walls of nearby adobe houses. The farmers of Río Palca, an ...
Under the Flag of Law Enforcement
ON JUNE 28 OF LAST YEAR, SHORTLY BE- fore Bolivia passed a new law aimed at control- ling coca production, ...
