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Three women operate a coca leaf stand at a market in Potosi, Bolivia. Hundreds of growers from the Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca) have marched in the country‘s capital, La Paz, to demand the closure of a parallel market for the plant. Some 90 percent of Bolivia’s legal coca leaf business, worth $173 million a year, passes through the Adepcoca market, according to UN figures.

Protest activity, clashes likely to continue in Villa El Carmen area, La Paz, Bolivia, through early August; localized disruptions likely.

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Clashes erupted Tuesday between police and coca leaf producers in the Bolivian capital of La Paz over a dispute over control of the coveted commercialization

Clashes broke out on Tuesday in the Bolivian capital between police and coca leaf producers in a dispute over control of the plant’s commercialization. Several uniformed officers and a journalist were injured, several sources reported, as hundreds of growers from the Association of Coca Producers (ADEPCOCA), as well as opponents of the government of Bolivian President Luis Arce marched in La Paz to demand the closure of a parallel market for the plant, which they say is illegal and has governm...

Further protests and increased security likely after protesting coca growers clash with police in Villa El Carmen, La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 1.

Analysis of the 2019 coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia, placing it in the longer historical context of Morales' political career as well as the more recent events preceding the coup.

Thousands of coca leaf growers seized the main market in Bolivia’s capital, La Paz, on Monday after a week-long dispute over its control. Police used tear gas in an effort to stop them.