Strategy of the War on Drugs in which crops of the source plant for cocaine are destroyed
Coca eradication in Colombia
Coca eradication is a strategy promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its "War on Drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the manufacture of cocaine. The strategy was adopted in place of running educational campaigns against drug usage.[1] The prohibitionist strategy is being pursued in the coca-growing regions of Colombia (Plan Colombia), Peru, and formerly Bolivia, where it is highly controversial because of its environmental, health and socioeconomic impact. Furthermore, indigenous cultures living in the Altiplano, such as the Aymaras, use the coca leaf (which they dub the "millenary leaf") in many of their cultural traditions, notably for its medicinal qualities in alleviating the feeling of hunger, fatigue and headaches symptomatic of altitude sicknesses. The growers of coca are named Cocaleros and part of the coca production for traditional use is legal in Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
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Cocaeradication is a strategy promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its "War on Drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of...
aerially eradicated 55,532 ha and manually eradicated 11,702 ha of coca in 2014, falling short of its goal of 14,000 ha. As obstacles to manual eradication the...
Glyphosate is a key ingredient in the multibillion-dollar aerial cocaeradication campaign undertaken by the government of Colombia with U.S. financial...
protest eradication 2006 (2006) Cocalero leader Evo Morales assumes the Presidency of Bolivia. Forced eradication is scaled back and the cato of coca is authorized...
military and para-military forces and creating an anti-cocaine strategy to eradicatecoca cultivation. Partly as a result of the plan, the FARC lost much of its...
Glyphosate is a key ingredient in the multibillion-dollar aerial cocaeradication campaign undertaken by the government of Colombia with U.S. financial...
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fertility. For this reason, Chapare has been a primary target for coca eradication in recent years, with frequent and heated clashes between the U.S. Drug...
had left Tingo María, in the Peruvian Amazonian highlands, on a DEA cocaeradication mission taking place in the context of Operation Snowcap, crashed into...
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government's economic policies concerning natural gas, as well as cocaeradication policies, corruption and violent military responses against strikes...
destroyed due to lack of municipal care. Sacaba was the site of anti-cocaeradication riots in 2002, which caused the removal of Evo Morales, leader of the...
cocalero movement had mobilized since late May 1988 in opposition to cocaeradication under Law 1008, then on the verge of becoming law. According to video...
proceed with an eradication plan that was supposed to provide peasants US$2,000 per hectare eradicated. With the 1988 passage of Law 1008, coca growing became...
drink Coca-Cola, introduced by the Coca-Cola Company in April 1985. It was renamed Coke II in 1990, and discontinued in July 2002. By 1985, Coca-Cola had...
Officials have carried out cocaeradication to prevent the extraction and isolation of the drug cocaine. However, ritual use of coca has a central role in...
ambushed and killed a police officer and two civilians who were destroying coca plantations of Aucayacu, in the central region of Haunuco, Peru. The victims...
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Since 1994, glyphosate has been used in aerial spraying in Colombia in cocaeradication programs; Colombia announced in May 2015 that by October, it would...
the Control y Reducción del Cultivo de la Coca en el Alto Huallaga was engaged in regional cocaeradication campaigns. Armed civilians in Peru organise...
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Europe to proceed with an eradication plan that was supposed to provide peasants US$2,000 per hectare eradicated. In 1988 coca growing became technically...
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reduced their target cocaeradication goal by 60% for 2023. In March 2023, Colombia and Bolivia announced a joint petition to remove the coca plant, but not...
in other countries to impede the production of certain plants, e.g. cocaeradication plans, or the campaigns against opium; both are traditional plants...
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