TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia (AP) — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab. But this ...

President Evo Morales is not known as a friend of Washington — his left-wing politics, like those of his ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, often put him at odds with the Bush Administration. But ...

Bolivia is the third largest coca-producing country in the world. Although the illegal drug trade has given coca a bad reputation, indigenous people have used it for centuries as medicine, food and a ...

The government of President Rodrigo Paz said it will push to revise Bolivia's legal framework for coca leaf cultivation after ...

Bolivian president Evo Morales has pledged to boost production of the coca leaf, which is mostly used to make cocaine but also has legitimate uses. Morales, a former coca farmer, wants to more markets ...

The coca leaf is everywhere here. Its pungent smell rises from giant sacks presided over by indigenous women selling at street markets; and in local parks men hold pink plastic bags of it, slowly ...

As Bolivia assumed the presidency of the United Nations Group of 77 (G-77), President Evo Morales used this opportunity to push his pro-coca agenda, likely hoping to capitalize on the international ...

Bolivia’s government said it will not allow Brazilian police to eradicate illegal coca crops within its borders, resisting Brazil’s increased efforts to police drug trafficking in the region. In ...

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Buzz is building around a new star beverage in Bolivia, where the coca leaf has long been legal despite the U.N.’s blanket prohibition due to the plant’s association with cocaine. TRINIDAD PAMPA, ...