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Security & Strategic Review - August 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BOLIVIA: Coca cultivation down, but Washington differs
In early August President Evo Morales was talking about restoring ambassadorial relations with the US (interrupted in 2008) and his antidrugs ‘czar’ Felipe Cáceres was suggesting that cooperation on drug control could follow. Within days the publication by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) of data showing a substantial reduction in coca cultivation suggested that the US might review its classification of Bolivia as a country that had ‘failed demonstrably’ to make sufficient efforts to meet its obligations under international counternarcotics agreements. Then came from the White House a report contradicting the UN data, and the mood swung back to animosity.
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