5 killed in attack on Colombia coca eradicators

Colombian authorities say three soldiers and two civilians have been killed in a rifle and grenade attack on a boat carrying coca eradication workers. They say six people also have wounds and six more are missing.

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Bolivia coca growers back Morales re-election

A leader of coca growers in Central Bolivia says the farmers are putting their controversial crop behind President Evo Morales' campaign for re-election.

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Bolivia acknowledges some illegal coca use

President Evo Morales acknowledged on Saturday for the first time in his nearly three years in office that a portion of coca produced in Bolivia is used to make cocaine.

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Coca-Cola's 3Q profit up 14 percent

The Coca-Cola Co. reported its profit rose by double digits, weathering a volatile third quarter in which consumers felt pressured by economic uncertainty.

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US: Coca production rising in Bolivia

A top U.S. anti-drug official says coca production in Bolivia is still rising despite government efforts to eradicate coca fields.

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Food rise has Bolivia's coca farmers planting rice

Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient.

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Coca cultivation surges in Colombia

Colombian peasants devoted 27 percent more land to growing coca last year, the United Nations reported Wednesday, calling the increase "a surprise and a shock" given intense efforts to eradicate cocaine's raw ingredient.

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Bolivia Funds Push for Legal Coca Market

President Evo Morales plans to spend $300,000 to develop legal markets for coca, defying a U.N.-affiliated drug watchdog's call to abolish traditional uses of the leaf long revered in the Andes.

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Peru, Bolivia Defend Chewing Coca

Peru and Bolivia brushed off calls from a U.N.-affiliated drug watchdog to criminalize the chewing of coca leaves, a tradition among indigenous populations in the Andes.

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Scientists Seek Coca's Medical Benefits

Cuban scientists are studying the possible medicinal benefits of the coca leaf, a Bolivian official said Tuesday, signaling a possible expansion of President Evo Morales' plans to develop more legal products from a plant that is the chief ingredient of cocaine.

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Peru President Suggests Coca in Salads

President Alan Garcia on Tuesday suggested an unorthodox use for the coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine: Why not toss it in a salad?

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Coca Production Increases in Colombia

A key component of the U.S.-backed war on drugs appears to be failing.

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Peruvian Hopeful Urges Feeding Kids Coca

A Peruvian presidential candidate is offering an unorthodox proposal for child nutrition: pass out bread laced with coca, the raw material for cocaine.

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Bolivian President Evo Morales vowed on Sunday to continue a hunger strike now three days old until opposition lawmakers approve an electoral law seen helping allies of the former coca farmer in a December vote.

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First the soldiers came to Río Seco, a coca-growing village in the lush mountain jungles of southern Peru. "They called us subversives and they opened fire," said Benedicto Cóndor, 55, a coca farmer.

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In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs placed the coca leaf in the same category with cocaine — thus promoting the false notion that the coca leaf is a narcotic — and ordered that "coca leaf chewing must be abolished within 25 years from the coming  …

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THIS week in Vienna, a meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs took place that will help shape international antidrug efforts for the next 10 years.

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The last U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents left Bolivia on Thursday after having been ordered out by President Evo Morales, even as Bolivian police report that coca cultivation and cocaine processing are on the rise.

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A look at the first sets of the 2008 Coca Cola Christmas Campaign

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Evo Morales is the latest democratically-elected Latin American president to be the target of a US plot to destabilize and overthrow his government.

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A 25-year-old German student has been caught with bonbons containing cocaine extract at the Munich airport, customs officials said on Thursday. The woman was on her way home from Peru, where she purchased the candies, which are legal in the South American country.

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The last hold-outs of the Shining Path refuse to surrender. Through group wreaked havoc in the country in the 80s and 90s, but now is a mere shadow of the group it once was.

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Evo Morales spent most of his adult life growing coca in central Bolivia, and resisting U.S.-backed efforts to eradicate the traditional crop that also produces the base ingredient for cocaine.

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For years, the American government has been trying to stomp out the growing of Coca, which is the base ingredient of Cocaine.

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In the North Carolina and Oregon Democratic US Senate primaries this year, two great progressive candidates ran for the nomination: Jim Neal (NC) and Steve Novick (OR).

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The story of my 10-day coca binge is short and, I'm afraid, not terribly sordid. Just the same, if I'm asked to take a drug test anytime soon I'm probably going to have a bit of explaining to do.

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Every year, White House officials describe the US counterdrug policies in the same glowing terms used to describe the Emperor's new clothes: We're snuffing out coca crops and cracking down on those who grow them.

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The Spiritual Traditions of the Andes, an Interview with Doris Rivera Lenz - Part 2

The second part of an article looking at the rich and powerful spiritual legacy of the Andean civilization which is only now being properly recognised after 500 years of obscurity. This interview of Doris Rivera Lenz, was conducted by Howard G. Charing & Peter Cloudsley.

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Ancient Andean Traditions under threat by the UN

This month the UN's International Narcotics Control Board recommended a ban on coca chewing and the use of coca in mass-consumption products such as tea in Peru and Bolivia.

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The Spiritual Traditions of the Andes; an Interview with Doris Rivera Lenz - Part 1

A look at the rich and powerful spiritual legacy of the Andean civilization which is only now being properly recognised after 500 years of obscurity. This interview of Doris Rivera Lenz, was conducted by Howard G. Charing & Peter Cloudsley.

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Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela have avoided war, but now two other Andean nations are gearing up for battle.

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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.

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The UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in their 2007 annual report released this week, calls on countries to 'abolish or prohibit coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea'.

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An Island Economy Built And Run On Cocaine!

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THE Prince of Wales will today open the only public garden in Britain to be allowed to grow cannabis.

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THE Prince of Wales will today open the only public garden in Britain to be allowed to grow cannabis. The Prince will officially open the second phase of The Alnwick Garden, in Alnwick, Northumberland, which includes the UK's only public poison garden, growing plants suc …

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The farmers at La Paz's coca market greet each other with affection. They only get to meet like this once every three months, when their crop of coca leaves is harvested.

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