Periods of negotiation alternated with outbursts of violence in the Chapare, the sub-tropical region in which thousands of poor farmers produce most of the Bolivian coca that is destined for the ...
In the Chapare, the rural area in which most of Bolivia’s coca is grown and cocaine base produced, the antinarcotics police run roughshod over the population, barging into homes in the middle of ...
More than 50 protesters were arrested. The coca-growing region of Chapare has emerged as the political bastion and refuge of ...