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    Drug Law Reform in Bolivia

    Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Bolivia.

    Drug Law Reform in Latin America
    Drugs and Democracy

    An interactive guide on the status of drug law reform throughout Latin America.

    Bolivia provides resistance and hope at Brokenhagen
    Nick Buxton

    Thanks to the courage of Bolivia and a few other nations – and against huge pressure and threats to sign the deal -  the UN did not endorse or adopt the vacuous Copenhagen Accord but instead were forced to use the much weaker language of “noting” it.

    Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
    Tom Blickman

    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 Drugs and Democracy Team expose the myths and reality surrounding the coca leaf.

    Get real about coca: debunking the myths surrounding the ‘sacred’ leaf

    The Coca Myths report destroys a wide range of myths which to this day surround the coca leaf, illegal under the current international law.

    Shielding the President
    Nick Buxton
    Why are top Democrats protecting Bolivia's former president from facing trial for the massacres he ordered?
    Bolivia’s New Constitution
    Nick Buxton
    Against a barrage of opposition media propaganda funded by Bolivia’s elites, the new constitution was approved with 61% of the popular vote. Bolivia was once the prized pupil for its wholesale application of policies encouraged by the IMF and the World Bank. Now it is one of the countries...
    A revolution without borders: reappraising Bolivia’s crisis
    TNI
     Samuel Grove and Pablo Navarrete

    Bolivia, a country used to being ignored by the western media, has hit the headlines in recent months due to the marked increase in violence among opponents and supporters of the government. Back in December 2005 Bolivia, a country in which 62 per cent of the population identify themselves as...

    The United States: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia
    Roger Burbach
    Bolivian President Evo Morales is visiting the United Nations and the Organization of American States this week to report on the recent US coup attempt against his government. Roger Burbach provides a story of US efforts over the past three years to topple Morales.

    Evo Morales is the...

    Bolivia’s popular upheaval
    Roger Burbach
     Tanya M. Kerssen and Roger Burbach

    A popular upheaval is sweeping Bolivia, threatening the departmental capital of Santa Cruz, the bastion of the right wing rebellion against the government of Evo Morales. Some twenty thousand miners, peasants and coca growers are moving on the city to reclaim state institutions occupied by...

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