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Wired November 2004 Joshua Davis |
The Mystery of the Coca Plant That Wouldn't Die The war on Colombia's drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature - or a genetically modified secret weapon? |
Reason July 2008 Radley Balko |
Coca Zero The U.N.'s drug enforcement agency, the International Narcotics Control Board, recommends that Bolivia and Peru criminalize the chewing of coca leaves and the boiling of the leaves to make tea. The move has triggered widespread protests in both countries. |
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004 |
"Our People Want to Decide Our Own Destiny" Bolivian indigenous leader Evo Morales, a possible presidential candidate, on the causes for the country's social unrest. |
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004 |
Q&A with Bolivian President Mesa On the job less than a year, Bolivian President Carlos Mesa talks at length about the huge challenges ahead, economic, political, and cultural. |
Reason June 2005 Toby Muse |
Legalize Now! War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war. |
Mother Jones December 2000 Kirk Semple |
Trouble in Coca County For community workers on Colombia's cocaine frontier, the war on drugs is getting personal... |
Salon.com April 24, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
Deadly mistake Why did the Peruvian military shoot down a plane full of innocent people -- and why was the CIA involved? |
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004 Geri Smith |
Gas-Rich, Dirt-Poor, Fed Up After 20 years of free-market reform, Bolivia, South America's most impoverished country, is growing restless. |
BusinessWeek December 26, 2005 Geri Smith |
Chavez: Trading Oil For Influence What worries Washington most about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is the way he is spreading his strident anti-American message throughout the hemisphere, winning hearts and minds from Buenos Aires to the Bronx. |