To Lead by Obeying: Authoritarianism in Bolivia’s Coca Growers’ Unions

Dr Thomas Grisaffi will talk about the relation between the ruling MAS and the Chapare coca growers’ unions.
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Dr Thomas Grisaffi will talk about the relation between the ruling MAS and the Chapare coca growers’ unions.
Read moreStacey Dunlea Postgraduate Researcher University of Sheffield Joint presentation with the Institute of Latin American Studies Friday 9 May at 18:00 for18:30 This paper explores recent developments relating to coca leaf cultivation and cocaine production in Bolivia, and in particular counter-narcotics measures under the MAS administration. The 2005 election of the Movimiento al Socialismo’s Evo Morales, a former coca farmer and
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