Bolivia Reduces Coca Cultivation
- 9 years ago
Bolivian authorities have reduced the amount of land dedicated to illicit coca production by 30% from 2010 to 2014. However, parliament is considering expanding the production of legally grown coca leaves, which have been used by the population since ancestral times for medicinal, nutritional,. and religious purposes. With illicit production at its lowest level in a decade, the government says it is winning the war on the illegal growing of the crop. Dimitri O'Donnell reports from La Paz. teleSUR