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Security & Strategic Review - December 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BOLIVIA: Behind successes, some discouraging signs
In an address delivered in the coca-growing centre of Chapare, President Evo Morales celebrated the year’s anti-drugs successes and quipped, ‘When our mandate began what was it that the domestic agents of the empire and even the US State Department were saying? That if coca took the Indian to power, coca would be his tomb. Well, 10 years after our revolution began, the coca leaf has never been Evo’s tomb.’ However, the figures and developments reported by the special anti-drugs force, FELCN, while solid enough, could be read as discouraging signs that Bolivia’s role as a producer of cocaine has been growing, and that it has been accompanied by high-level corruption.
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