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En 1961 se incluyó la hoja de coca en la Lista I de la Convención Única de Estupefacientes, junto a la cocaína y la heroína. La inclusión ha causado mucho daño en la región andina por lo que se hace imprescindible una corrección para prevenir futuros conflictos, y en respeto a las culturas andino-amazónicas. Las razones que motivaron la inclusión de la hoja de coca en la Convención Única de 1961 se fundamentaron principalmente en un informe de las Naciones Unidas pedido por el representante permanente del Perú y que fue preparado por una comisión que visitó brevemente Bolivia y Perú en 1949. En esta sección usted encontrará:

  • el informe original (el cual no fue fácil de localizar) y un panorama general de los debates en los cuerpos de la ONU sobre el tema de la coca.
  • el Informe de la Comisión de Investigación sobre la Hoja de Coca (pdf) de mayo de 1950;
  • el Informe a la Comisión de Estupefacientes y al Consejo Social y Económico de las Naciones Unidas ECOSOC que condujo a la clasificación de la hoja de coca en la Convención de 1961.

Descargar el informe completo (pdf)
Conclusiones and Recommendations only (pdf, English)


Sections of the report in the UN Bulletin on Narcotics

  • Commission of Inquiry on the Coca Leaf Bulletin on Narcotics - 1949 Issue 1 - 005.
    Abstract: At the beginning of September this year the United Nations dispatched a Commission of Enquiry to South America to study certain aspects of two uses to which the leaf of the coca bush is put.
  • Commission of Inquiry on the Coca Leaf Bulletin on Narcotics - 1950 Issue 4 - 004
    Abstract: At the request of the Government of Peru, then of the Government of Bolivia, the United Nations sent, during the autumn of 1949, to these countries, a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the effects of chewing the coca leaf and the possibilities of limiting its production and controlling its distribution (see Bulletin on Narcotics, vol. I, no. 1, October 1949). The Commission and its secretariat left New York on 10 September 1949 and returned on 4 December 1949. Its report was completed in May 1950: two parts of this report are hereby reproduced, namely, the methods of work of the Commission, and its conclusions and recommendations.
  • Coca Chewing, Geography and Nutrition Bulletin on Narcotics - 1950 Issue 4 - 001
    Abstract: Coca-leaf chewing, or "coqueo" as it is called, is related to a wide diversity of factors: social, economic, biopsychological, cultural, geographical, nutritional, etc. In this paper, climate altitude and nutrition will be considered. It is a widely held opinion that because of these three factors coca-leaf chewing can to a great extent be regarded as a necessity in some parts of South America. The purpose of this paper is to inquire whether the generalization is correct or not. The three closely interrelated factors are studied in the light of social, economic and cultural factors, as well as to strictly geographical and nutritional considerations, since geography and nutrition are closely related to various social, economic and cultural factors and vice versa.
  • CND Res.1(VII). The Problem of the Coca Leaf (1952) Resolution that requested Bolivia and Peru to take the necessary steps to limit immediately the production of coca leaves to licit consumption and manufacture.
  • Bulletin of Narcotics from 1949 until 1996: 90 documents on the coca leaf and cocaine
  • Bolivia's reservations to 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
    Bolivia declared the provisions of the paragraph which could be interpreted as establishing as a criminal offence the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption, inapplicable because they are contrary to principles of its Constitution and basic concepts of its legal system which embody respect for the culture, legitimate practices, values and attributes of the nationalities making up Bolivia's population.
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