Items tagged with bolivia and coca
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| Amid worsening food shortages, we need to turn over a new leaf on the coca plant [23.03.2023] | The coca leaf has been a staple in Andean communities for centuries, serving as a source of nutrition, as an aide for altitude adjustment, and as an ... |
| Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
| Coca leaf: Myths and Reality [16.06.2020] | Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's D ... |
| The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade [09.06.2020] | As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew one cash crop that seemed immune from global cycles of booms and busts. But ... |
| Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia [30.05.2020] | When Peruvian government forces began eradicating coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, without warning in a remote corner of Peru’s principal coc ... |
| The world's biggest legal coca industry might get shut down [26.02.2020] | Bolivia is one of three countries in the world that produce the bulk of the world’s coca, the green leafy plant that is the base ingredient for cocai ... |
| Canada's cannabis policy makes it an international rebel on drug treaties [20.12.2019] | While many Canadians have focused on the supply problems and overly optimistic business projections that have marred Ottawa's marijuana legalization ... |
| Bolivia sees coca as a way to perk up its economy – but all everyone else sees is cocaine [15.03.2017] | The vision of an expanding international market for legal coca products – such as flour, tea and ointments – is shared widely in Bolivia, and it was ... |
| The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [27.10.2016] | The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug ... |
| Why is coca leaf left out of the drug research renaissance? [02.08.2016] | While marijuana, magic mushrooms, and ayahuasca have all found their way into research labs, coca leaf, the mother of cocaine, seems to be off-limits ... |
| Bolivia stands up to US with coca-control policy [29.09.2015] | The Habeas Coca report, published by Open Society Foundations in July, found that Bolivia slashed its illicit coca production by 34 percent over the ... |
| The White House blacklisted Bolivia for growing coca while US states sell legal weed [15.09.2015] | The US has "decertified" Bolivia over what it calls a failure to comply with the UN drug control conventions, despite recent data showing the country ... |
| Building on Progress [14.08.2015] | Bolivia has seen a decline in coca cultivation for the fourth consecutive year, according to data released today by the United Nations Office on Drug ... |
| Habeas Coca [14.07.2015] | With significant pressure and earmarked funding from the United States and other demand-side countries, the Andean countries of Bolivia, Colombia, an ... |
| Exploring the land-drugs nexus [03.06.2015] | "For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consult ... |
| Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas [27.06.2014] | Latin America is now at the vanguard of international efforts to promote drug policy reform: Bolivia has rewritten its constitution to recognize the ... |
| Bolivia charts its own path on coca [25.06.2014] | The U.N. reported that coca cultivation in Bolivia fell nine percent last year, and a massive 26 percent in the past three years. The nationwide decr ... |
| Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective [02.06.2014] | If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits ... |
| Stalled Bolivia coca report delivers moderate verdict [14.11.2013] | Bolivia's long-awaited coca use study has found the country needs to cultivate over 14,000 hectares of the crop to satisfy legal demand, a number mor ... |
| Coca leaf: A Political Dilemma [07.10.2013] | For fifty years the World’s attitude to and treatment of the coca leaf and coca farmers has been controlled by the UN Drugs Conventions beginning wit ... |
| Working towards a legal coca market: The case of coca leaf chewing in Argentina [30.07.2013] | Modern use of the coca leaf in Argentina provides a series of examples that could contribute to dispelling many of the myths that have polarized deba ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas [30.04.2013] | Latin America has emerged at the vanguard of efforts to promote debate on drug policy reform. For decades, Latin American governments largely followe ... |
| Coca and Snus: Sweden's self-defeating hypocrisy on drugs [15.01.2013] | Tradition is disposable. Evidence is marginal. Economic arguments are not important. This, in a nutshell, is what Sweden said to the UN to oppose tra ... |
| Major victory for President Morales: UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia [14.01.2013] | Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the trea ... |
| Bolivians demand the right to chew coca leaves [13.01.2013] | A major international row with wide-ranging implications for global drugs policy has erupted over the right of Bolivia's indigenous Indian tribes to ... |
| The condemned coca leaf [12.01.2013] | Last week, the United Nations voted on an appeal by Bolivia to amend the international treaty that prohibits the chewing of coca leaf. Bolivia won a ... |
| Schijnheilig bezwaar van Nederland tegen het kauwen van coca bladeren [11.01.2013] | De Nederlandse regering heeft bij de Verenigde Naties bezwaar aangetekend tegen de herintreding van Bolivia in het Enkelvoudig Verdrag inzake verdove ... |
| Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf [11.01.2013] | Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Conven ... |
| Partial, symbolic victory for Bolivia in battle to legalize coca leaf [11.01.2013] | Evo Morales’ global crusade to decriminalize the coca leaf, launched in 2006 after the coca growers’ union leader was first elected president of Boli ... |
| To look tough on drugs, and please the US, the UK is willing to trample on indigenous rights [06.01.2013] | The UK says in its objection to Bolivia's reaccession to the 1961 UN Single Convention with a reservation that allows for the traditional chewing of ... |
| Objections to Bolivia's reservation to allow coca chewing in the UN conventions [03.01.2013] | Sweden joined the United States and the United Kingdom in objecting to the re-accession of Bolivia to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs ... |
| Has Bolivia's coca-growing scheme worked? [03.01.2013] | Bolivian president Evo Morales, a former coca-leaf farmer, came to power promising to defend the right of Bolivians to produce coca for traditional u ... |
| European Union discussion on response to Bolivia's denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [28.11.2012] | The following notes are summaries of the EU Horizontal Working Party on Drugs discussions about Bolivia’s coca amendment and denunciation of the 1961 ... |
| U.S. marijuana vote may have snowball effect in Latin America [07.11.2012] | Voters in Colorado and Washington state who approved the recreational use of marijuana Tuesday sent a salvo from the ballot box that will ricochet ar ... |
| The International Drug Control Treaties [31.07.2012] | The way the world looks at drug control is changing. There has been a growing awareness of the issue for the past decade, as well as increasing publi ... |
| How Latin America is reinventing the war on drugs [29.07.2012] | Like thousands of other Bolivians, Marcela Lopez Vasquez's parents migrated to the Chapare region, in the Andean tropics, desperate to make a living ... |
| Bolivia defends coca consumption at U.N. meeting [11.03.2012] | Bolivian President Evo Morales defended Bolivians' right to chew coca leaves, the main ingredient of cocaine, on Monday, saying it was an ancient rad ... |
| A Regretful Spirit [28.02.2012] | The terms used in the preface to the 2011 INCB annual report leave no doubt as to the illness afflicting this UN body: a (deep) regret is running thr ... |
| The UN International Narcotics Control Board Releases 2011 Annual Report [28.02.2012] | The UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which monitors implementation of the global drug treaties, has trained its fire on Bolivia, th ... |
| Response of Bolivia to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) [23.02.2012] | In a letter to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) the Government of Bolivia rejects the judgments made by the independent agency of the ... |
| Bolivia, the coca leaf and the right to reserve [02.01.2012] | Just before ending 2011, Bolivia presented the formal notification to the United Nations secretariat in New York, announcing their re-adherence to th ... |
| Bolivia’s Morales wants UN to lift ban on chewing coca leaves in 2012 [26.12.2011] | Bolivian President Evo Morales believes that in 2012 the United Nations will finally agree that chewing of coca leaves is a legal ancient tradition o ... |
| Evo does not convince the INCB on coca chewing [16.12.2011] | The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, yesterday asked inspectors of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the United Nations to suppor ... |
| Drug Policy in the Andes [15.12.2011] | Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs," ma ... |
| La Bolivia sotto Inquisizione [20.07.2011] | Martin Jelsma (Transnational Institute, Amsterdam) racconta per la rubrica di Fuoriluogo sul Manifesto del 20 luglio 2011 la crociata contro la Boliv ... |
| Coca is not Cocaine [19.07.2011] | On June 22nd under instruction from President Evo Morales (an ex-coca grower and leader of Bolivia’s powerful coca federation), Bolivia’s congress vo ... |
| Bolivia drops out of UN drug pact to protect its coca chewers [18.07.2011] | Bolivia has presented a denunciation to the UN that seals its resignation from the United Nations 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which ban ... |
| Bolivia and the international drug control regime [15.07.2011] | Bolivia has denounced the International Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which bans the traditional practice of chewing coca leaf. Adam talks with Marti ... |
| Bolivia’s legal reconciliation with the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [11.07.2011] | On 29 June 2011, the Bolivian government denounced the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol, indicating its inten ... |
| Treaty guardians in distress [11.07.2011] | Just when you start to see glimmers of hope that the troubled UN drug control system is opening up for a change process, its principal guardian the I ... |
| INCB Regrets Bolivia’s Denunciation of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [05.07.2011] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) regrets the decision by the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to denounce the Single ... |
| Bolivia formally renounces UN narcotics convention because it penalizes coca-leaf chewing [30.06.2011] | Bolivia's government has informed the United Nations it is renouncing the world body's anti-drug convention because it classifies coca leaf as an ill ... |
| Bolivia Withdraws from the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [30.06.2011] | The Bolivian government formally notified the UN Secretary General of its withdrawal from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (as amended by ... |
| Bolivia’s concurrent drug control and other international legal commitments [30.06.2011] | Bolivia’s denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is not just about one treaty. It is about finding an appropriate balance betwe ... |
| Bolivia’s denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [30.06.2011] | Bolivia initially proposed an amendment to article 49, deleting the therein contained obligation that “coca leaf chewing must be abolished”. The arti ... |
| Bolivia to denounce and rejoin the 1961 UN Single Convention with respect to coca leaf chewing [24.06.2011] | Press conference by H.E. Pablo Solon, Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia on the theme, "denounce and rejoin the Single Co ... |
| Bolivia to withdraw from drugs convention over coca classification [24.06.2011] | Bolivia is set to withdraw from an international narcotics convention in protest at its classification of coca leaves as an illegal drug. President E ... |
| Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf [30.04.2011] | Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people's cultural and medicinal heritage? Or per ... |
| Lifting the ban on coca chewing [18.03.2011] | January 31 marked the close of the 18-month period during which countries could submit objections to Bolivia’s proposal to remove from the 1961 Singl ... |
| Seventeen objections to abolishing the ban on coca chewing [07.02.2011] | The final count after closure of the January 31 deadline to file objections to the Bolivian amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1 ... |
| D-Day for Bolivia’s coca chewing amendment [31.01.2011] | Today is the deadline for countries to submit objections to Bolivia’s proposed amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1961 UN Single ... |
| Bolivia fights objections to coca-leaf chewing [28.01.2011] | Bolivia will ask the United Nations to organize a conference on coca leaf-chewing if the U.S., Britain and Sweden don't withdraw their objections to ... |
| Press Conference by Bolivia on Amendment to Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [28.01.2011] | Bolivia would continue its campaign to remove from a United Nations convention a ban on coca leaf chewing and take its case to the Economic and Socia ... |
| The U.S. Can Still Correct its Position on Bolivia's UN Coca Chewing Amendment [28.01.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Andean Information Network (AIN), and more than 200 other concerned organizations and individuals ... |
| Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [26.01.2011] | Bolivians chewed coca leaves in demonstrations around the country Wednesday to push for a change in a 1961 UN convention to remove a ban on a practic ... |
| Bolivia launches coca leaf diplomatic offensive [21.01.2011] | Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca is on a European tour in a bid to drum up support for taking coca off a UN treaty on banned drugs. Spanish foreig ... |
| Let them chew coca [20.01.2011] | The constraint on fresh thinking was on shameful display this week. A UN convention, reaffirmed in 2009, imposes a blanket prohibition on drugs. This ... |
| The coca leaf: Storm in an Andean teacup [20.01.2011] | The United States’ State Department’s website recommends coca tea for altitude sickness, and its La Paz embassy has been known to serve it to visitor ... |
| Bolivia energises campaign to legalise coca leaf [19.01.2011] | Bolivia and the US set for more battles over the coca leaf as Evo Morales attempts to overturn legality of the indigenous plant. US diplomats are due ... |
| US objects to Bolivia bid for licit coca-chewing [18.01.2011] | The United States will file a formal objection Wednesday to Bolivia's proposal to end the ban on coca leaf-chewing specified by a half-century-old U. ... |
| Spain will not object to the Bolivian proposal to remove coca chewing from UN convention on drugs [18.01.2011] | Spain will not put forward any objection to the Bolivian proposal to remove the obligation to abolish coca chewing from the 1961 UN Single Convention ... |
| The U.S. Moves to Block Bolivia’s Request to Eliminate U.N. Ban on Coca Leaf Chewing [18.01.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) have learned that the United States is moving to oppose, as soon ... |
| Diplomatic games to oppose lifting unjust ban on coca chewing [16.01.2011] | According to the government of Bolivia, the only three countries that did file a formal objection to the amendment of Bolivia to abolish the ban on c ... |
| U.S. Renews Anachronistic Campaign to Stamp Out Coca Leaf Chewing [14.01.2011] | Just one month after President Obama announced that the U.S. would finally sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, U.S. official ... |
| Correcting a historical error [13.01.2011] | In 2009, the Bolivian government requested that the United Nations amend the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. The proposed amendment woul ... |
| Aide-Memoire on the Bolivian Proposal To Amend Article 49 of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [13.01.2011] | In 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, sent a letter to the General Secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, in which the Governme ... |
| US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs' [16.01.2010] | After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corrup ... |
| Coca chewing out of the UN convention? [21.08.2009] | On July 30th the Bolivian proposal to amend the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs by deleting the obligation to abolish the chewingof coca lea ... |
| Coca leaf should be allowed in the UK [05.07.2009] | On 12 June 2009, TNI submited a memorandum to the 'House of Commons Select Committee on the cocaine trade' to allow the coca leaf in its natural form ... |
| Towards a world market for coca leaf? [26.06.2009] | When we think of people like Pope Paul VI, the Queen of Spain or Britain’s Princess Anne, most of us do not think of them as criminals. But that is w ... |
| Coca Myths [01.06.2009] | The coca leaf has been used and misused for many ends, each of them suiting different interests and agendas. Even its very name has been appropriated ... |
| Proposal of amendments by Bolivia to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [15.05.2009] | The Secretary-General has received a note verbale dated 12 March 2009 from the Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations, attached to which ... |
| Vienna Consensus on Drug Policy Cracks [07.04.2009] | A clear divide in drug control approaches became apparent at the end of the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 11- ... |
| "Let Me Chew My Coca Leaves" [15.03.2009] | The first day at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was marked by the announcement of President Evo Morales of Bolivia that he would start the process ... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
| Let Me Chew My Coca Leaves [14.03.2009] | In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs placed the coca leaf in the same category with cocaine — thus promoting the false not ... |
| Letter to the UN Secretary General [12.03.2009] | On March 12, 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sent a letter sent a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, re ... |
| Bolivia calls on Obama to back coca campaign [11.03.2009] | President Barack Obama should recognize traditional uses of the coca leaf because not all production becomes cocaine, Bolivian President Evo Morales ... |
| Speech Morales at the CND [11.03.2009] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) filmed the speech of the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, at the high level UN meeting in Vienna on Marc ... |
| Coca Leaf: The Heritage of the Andes [10.04.2008] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) released a new short film in their excellent series on the proceedings of the 2008 Commission on Narcotic D ... |
| Coca Leaf: The Heritage of the Andes [08.04.2008] | A film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) |
| Coca Leaf Defended by Growers, Scientists… and Taxi Drivers [24.03.2008] | "They will have to kill us to make us stop planting coca," Bolivian coca grower Luis Mamani told IPS in response to a call from the International Nar ... |
| Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca [17.03.2008] | The Bolivian delegation was the first to issue what it called an "energetic protest" against the INCB's recommendations during the agency's annual me ... |
| Long life to coca leaf! [13.03.2008] | With a “Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!” the vice -minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia ended his intervention on ... |
| Intervention of Bolivia at the 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [12.03.2008] | With a "Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!" the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia Hugo Fernandez ended his in ... |
| Statement about the coca leaf [11.03.2008] | Statement in support of the Bolivian announcement to ask for the un-scheduling of the coca leaf from the list controlled substances of the 1961 UN Si ... |
| A real outrage against our culture [10.03.2008] | Foreign Affairs minister David Choquehuanca announced that Bolivia is going to ask for a rectification of the 2007 Annual Report of the International ... |
| Bolivia to defend coca leaf at UN [10.03.2008] | Bolivian officials at a conference on illegal drugs in Vienna are planning to ask the UN to remove the coca plant from its list of dangerous drugs. T ... |
| Letter Evo Morales to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [08.03.2008] | In response to the 2007 annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which called on countries to 'abolish or prohibit coca lea ... |
| INCB: controversial statements on coca leaf [05.03.2008] | Read here the full text of the controversial statements on coca leaf included in this year's Annual Report of the INCB. Some highlights: > "The Board ... |
| Response to INCB's Annual Report 2007 [02.03.2008] | The 2007 INCB Annual Report shows some signs of a more balanced approach by the INCB to the policy dilemmas around proportionality of sentences and h ... |
| The resolution of ambiguities regarding coca [01.03.2008] | The international legal status of the coca leaf and of its traditional uses in the Andes has long been ambiguous and contested. While the Internation ... |
| Just Say Coca [30.10.2006] | Bolivian president Evo Morales recently implored the United Nations to give the coca leaf a new life. A former coca farmer himself, Morales asked the ... |
| Broken promises and coca eradication in Peru [01.03.2005] | The forced crop eradication policy implemented by the Peruvian government over the past 25 years has failed. The official strategy has exacerbated so ... |
| Coca or death? [01.04.2004] | Following Bolivia's 2002 parliamentary elections, the success of the political party headed by cocalero leader Evo Morales, rekindled debate regardin ... |
| Alternative Development and Drug Control [08.01.2002] | What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalenc ... |
| Full scope on the War on Drugs [30.04.1998] | An elderly cleaning lady enters the huge empty UN aula in New York with her polishing cart, to get the venue spic-and-span for an important upcoming ... |
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