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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.
La Paz (AFP), Aug 3 - Clashes broke out Tuesday in the Bolivian capital La Paz between police and coca leaf producers in a dispute over control of the - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke
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 government support. In October last year, thousands of coca leaf growers stormed the country’s main coca ...