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Andean Group - September 2015 (ISSN 1741-4466)
DRUGS: UN drugs report leaves Morales on a high
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Unodc) has released its latest survey on coca cultivation in Bolivia. The report suggests that, for all the US insistence to the contrary, the left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government led by President Evo Morales is continuing to make progress in coca eradication efforts. The Unodc’s findings are a fillip for the Morales government’s ‘Coca Sí, Cocaína No’ policy, which distinguishes between the raw coca leaf (an important symbol of Bolivian indigenous culture) and cocaine, the illegal narcotic. That policy remains an ongoing bone of contention with the US, whose Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Morales expelled in 2008.
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