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"Let Me Chew My Coca Leaves"	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 t...
A real outrage against our culture	Foreign Affairs minister David Choquehuanca announced that Bolivia is going to ask for a rectification of the 2007 Annual Report of the International ...
A Regretful Spirit	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...
Abolishing Coca Leaf Consumption?	The Transnational Institute condemns the decision by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in their 2007 annual report released today, whic...
Aide-Memoire on the Bolivian Proposal To Amend Article 49 of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs	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 Governmen...
Amendment against anti-coca chewing provisions	In March 2009, Evo Morales sent his formal request to the Secretary General Bang Ki Moon to delete articles 49(c) and 49(e) of the 1961 UN Single Conv...
Back to Business as Usual as Peru Loses Progressive Drug Czar	Despite promising signs that Peru’s new president was ready to take a fresh approach to drug policy, focused on attacking traffickers and not coca f...
Blessing in disguise?	Yesterday, President Evo Morales of Bolivia sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon rejecting the recommendations of the International Na...
Bolivia and the international drug control regime	Bolivia has denounced the International Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which bans the traditional practice of chewing coca leaf. Adam talks with Mar...
Bolivia calls on Obama to back coca campaign	President Barack Obama should recognize traditional uses of the coca leaf because not all production becomes cocaine, Bolivian President Evo Morales s...
Bolivia defends coca consumption at U.N. meeting	Bolivian President Evo Morales defended Bolivians' right to chew coca leaves, the main ingredient of cocaine, on Monday, saying it was an ancie...
Bolivia drops out of UN drug pact to protect its coca chewers	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 energises campaign to legalise coca leaf	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 ...
Bolivia fights objections to coca-leaf chewing	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 objecti...
Bolivia formally renounces UN narcotics convention because it penalizes coca-leaf chewing	Bolivia's government has informed the United Nations it is renouncing the world body's anti-drug convention because it classifies coca leaf...
Bolivia launches coca leaf diplomatic offensive	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...
Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf	Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people's cultural and medicinal heritage? ...
Bolivia to defend coca leaf at UN	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. Th...
Bolivia to denounce and rejoin the 1961 UN Single Convention with respect to coca leaf chewing	Press conference by H.E. Pablo Solon, Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia on the theme, "denounce and rejoin the Sin...
Bolivia to withdraw from drugs convention over coca classification	Bolivia is set to withdraw from an international narcotics convention in protest at its classification of coca leaves as an illegal drug. President E...
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