Bolivia

Bolivia Traffickers double cocaine manufacturing

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) informed last week that Bolivia Traffickers have improved the cocaine manufacturing to double.

According to one of their representatives, the production of cocaine has become more sophisticated. Under the influence of Colombian cartels, Bolivian cocaine producers have introduced more efficient chemical technology applied in pharmaceutical and petrochemical industry. Also, according to Bolivian authorities, they have started using ground cocaine and cement in the fabrication of drugs.

Bolivian Government seeks to amend United Nations coca legislation

On Thursday, the 30th July 2009 at the Substantive Session of the Economic and Social Council Bolivia began the formal process to amend legislation concerning coca leaf chewing.

The United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs that dates back to 1961 puts the coca leaf in the same category as Cocaine and states that ‘coca leaf chewing must be abolished within twenty-five years from the coming into force of this Convention’. The Convention was later signed by Bolivia in 1976 during the dictatorship of Colonel Hugo Banzer.

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President of Bolivia chews Coca leaf at UN in Vienna Pt 2

President of Bolivia, Evo Morales holds up a coca leaf, puts it in his mouth and chews. "Am I a drug Addict?

President of Bolivia chews Coca leaf at UN in Vienna Pt 1

President of Bolivia, Evo Morales holds up a coca leaf, puts it in his mouth and chews. "Am I a drug Addict? Are you going to arrest me?".

During his address in Vienna, March 11 2009, he urged the CND to support the decriminalization of coca production and the removal of coca from the UN list of banned substances, because the raw ingredient for cocaine in itself is "not a drug" but a traditional medicine.

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