Listen to Team member Kathryn Ledebur discuss the situation in Bolivia. Comunicación con la periodista Kathryn Ledebur desde Estados Unidos, sobre el grupo de senadores demócratas que se pronunciaron contra…Read More >
Dándole Vuelta a la Hoja: Aplicabilidad Regional de Políticas Innovadoras Para el Control de Cultivos de Drogas en los Andes
Dándole Vuelta a la Hoja: Aplicabilidad Regional de Políticas Innovadoras Para el Control de Cultivos de Drogas en los Andes Read the full paper here in Spanish Thomas Grisaffi, Universidad…Read More >
La Red Andina de Información, CELS, la Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos Bolivia y CETIM denuncian impunidad en masacres en Bolivia ante la ONU
La Red Andina de Información, CELS (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales), la Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos Bolivia y CETIM presentan la denuncia ante la Organización de las Naciones Unidas…Read More >
PODCAST: Bolivia Back Story: Añez Efforts to Evade Elections Fail…For Now
Listen to the podcast by Kathryn Ledebur on what is happening in Bolivia here. Bolivia’s electoral court has formally set the date for presidential and congressional elections for September 6….Read More >
The Subnational Indigenous Quota in Peru: The Paradoxes of Political Representation
New paper by Maritza Paredes in Latin American Politics and Society, Read the full article here The objective of this article is to explain the territorial variation in indigenous political…Read More >
VIDEO: Bolivia’s Interim Government Stigmatizes Coca Farmers as “Narcoterrorists”
Bolivia’s Interim Government Stigmatizes Coca Farmers as “Narcoterrorists” Watch a short film made by our team on the current situation for coca farmers in the Chapare Bolivia -in English part 1. and…Read More >
The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade.
Article in the Washington Post by team member Lucien Chauvin and drawing on our Joint research. As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew…Read More >
Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia
By Thomas Grisaffi, Linda Farthing and Kathryn Ledebur When Peruvian government forces began eradicating coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, without warning in a remote corner of Peru’s principal…Read More >
La Amazonía sin oxígeno: Pandemia y consecuencias de un reconocimiento cultural sin equidad.
By Maritza Paredes El COVID-19 viene golpeando duramente a la Amazonía. La región más afectada por la pandemia es Loreto, la quinta región con mayor número de casos a nivel…Read More >
Turning Over a New Leaf: Regional Applicability of Innovative Drug Crop Control Policy in The Andes
This working paper considers coca control and development strategies in Bolivia and Peru through the intersection of participatory development, social control and the relationship between growers and the state. Bolivia…Read More >
Día de la Madre en Bolivia: Día del duelo
From the Andean Information Network El 27 de mayo es el Día de la Madre en Bolivia, en honor a las mujeres de Cochabamba que lucharon por la independencia del…Read More >
Corona Hits the Cocaine Supply Chain
By Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi Originally published in Latin America News Dispatch Among the many myths about the coronavirus, one of the strangest circulated on Twitter is the belief…Read More >
Bolivia and Peru: Coca Farmers in the Time of Covid-19
For the original see Andean Information Network The Covid-19 pandemic is creating massive upheaval in Bolivia and Peru, with governments responding with a wide array of policies and programs, using…Read More >
Bolivia y Perú: Productores de Coca en la Era del Covid-19
Por la Red Andina de Información La pandemia del Covid-19 está creando enormes turbulencias en Bolivia y el Perú, y los gobiernos de ambos países están respondiendo con una serie…Read More >
