Cochabamba’s 50,000 coca farming families have become the most formidable adversary of Bolivia’s interim government

Anatoly Kurmanaev
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Cochabamba’s 50,000 coca farming families have become the most formidable adversary of Bolivia’s interim government. They are organized, united and highly motivated to defend Evo till “the final consequences.” They also able to keep the country paralyzed for months.
New York Times World
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“He was the only president we have ever seen,” said one Bolivian coca farmer about Evo Morales. “He was in the fields with us.”