Cocaine Wars - Bolivia



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April 1996
For centuries the coco leaf was a blessing from the Gods. It alleviated the hunger of the Bolivian poor. Today it is a source of narcotic evil for the West.
Bolivia's government, reliant on US aid and vulnerable to US dictates, has been forced to uphold a war against coco producers. The 'Leopards' - anti-narcotic paramilitaries - patrol the tropical jungles of Chapere and destroy small cocaine factories. Local farmers, like Berto, are put under pressure to rip up their coco plants and rePlace them with alternative crops. But now Berto can't sell his new produce and is more impoverished than ever. Human rights organisations report violent abuses committed by the 'Leopards' against men and women. US Ambassador coolly contests such reports and admits that Bolivia would be 'hurt' if it objected to US initiatives. Evo Morales leads the Chapere people in a protest rally. In their muddy villages, the tired faces don't understand why their government is trying to destroy their livelihood.


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if people want to ... ( 2 months ago by 730free)
if people want to fuck themselves up and do cocaine, they should be able to. who is the government to say that they can't have control over their bodies and put wat they want in it. on the other hand, cocaine means murder and lots of it.
its not only what ... ( 2 months ago by Mst14432)
its not only what drugs do to your body, its also what you can do to other people. drugs can make you dangerous to society.
fuck america .. ( 2 months ago by dsahsdouga)
fuck america ..
you bloody ... ( 2 months ago by eesha14)
you bloody interfering americans. why don't you concentrate on your own backyard drug and social problems. stopping production doesn't stop people taking drugs. it only makes the drug more expensive!!! The British and Spanish fucked up the world in the early centuries and now Americans have fucked up the 20th century.
I agree they are ... ( 2 months ago by guaringo98)
I agree they are harder working then most people in US. They are just using these people to do their dirty work.
life makes people ... ( 2 months ago by atl2maryland)
life makes people dangerous to society. poverty, all the negativity on tv, etc. drugs dont better or worsen the situation if u ask me.
En bolivia mucha ... ( 2 months ago by orlandofull)
En bolivia mucha gente de los yungas y el chapare parecen ser pobres, pero la relidad que se ve afuera es dititan, las personas pueden estar sucias y usar abrca en vez de zapatos pero tienen mucho dinero, suelen guardarlo ellos mismos, otros en bancos.
What people really ... ( 2 months ago by Alittleoperalover)
What people really need to do is help the economy of Bolivia to improve-if pineapple or another legal crop becomes a huge export, cocaine will eventually lose popularity as a dangerous and treacherous trade. If people paid more attention to the real problem of political turmoil and poverty, we would find an end to this cocaine drug war.
People Jus twant to ... ( 2 months ago by OxEyeChai)
People Jus twant to Subsist on the Land of their Ancestors.
Revolution against the Globalist's Funded buy Cocaine. US KO'd the revolutionarys eventully and put their own boys back in place.
Needed durgs to suck money backout of the Economy elsewhere.
Now have para-militery to make sure its only their farm's who grow Cocaine.
Thats why you get fights.
That's what they ... ( 2 months ago by AmaruRuna)
That's what they want, TO MAKE THE DRUGS MORE EXPENSIVE, so it can benefit the mafias. It is not about drugs, its about money and making the traffic more lucrative. If cocaine would be legalized, all drug lords would go out of business and every group that launders money.
People just want to ... ( 2 months ago by OxEyeChai)
People just want to subsist on the land of their Ancestors.
Spain Comes makes them Grow Loads of Cocaine In Slavery.
Revolution gets funded via Cocaine. Rebels.
US comeback years later and puts its own farms back in place, making sure that it has no compatition by funding a para-militery Force, (always a bad Idea)And paying the Farmers to grow Non-Indigenous Species (another bad Idea.)
Bet they manage to save the Day with Pesticides and Genetic Modification.
THen who Buys up ... ( 2 months ago by OxEyeChai)
THen who Buys up the Whole Area for nothing When the Indigenous farmers Go into Debt.
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The US have no ... ( 1 month ago by purenectar)
The US have no right to dictate Bolivia. The West is to blame for the demand in cocaine. Perhaps if we stopped glamourising cocaine, it wouldn't be such a big problem.
I'm Bolivian :O ( 1 month ago by xLaBelleEtLaBete)
I'm Bolivian :O
Wow...The US just ... ( 2 weeks ago by KMAMK123)
Wow...The US just creates the problems.
Thank God Morarles ... ( 1 week ago by keytoothed)
Thank God Morarles kicked the US out.
Yeah and that he ... ( 1 week ago by mlovecraftr)
Yeah and that he has destroyed bolivia`s economy and accepted a new tyran:
Hugo Chavez` Venezuela
This video is ... ( 1 week ago by mlovecraftr)
This video is extremly old. Clinton's administration, that is mid-to-late 90's, more of a decade from now. Evo Morales has become President of Bolivia, implanted protectionist measure that now cause huge inflation and international political scandal. The life of this farmers have stayed the same and Morales has already lost the support of the coca farmers unions.
A problem not mentioned here about coca is that the profits of its farming are used to finance radical politicians like him.
Please, enlighten ... ( 1 week ago by keytoothed)
Please, enlighten me as to how Morales has "destroyed" Bolivia's economy, troll.
Well, where do I ... ( 1 week ago by mlovecraftr)
Well, where do I start?
Since the start of his presidential term the direct foreign investment has dropped more than 60%. Inflation is now at 12% acording to government sources an at more than 20% according to independent economists. The foreign investment has dropped becuase of Morales' "anti-imperialist" speech, he even accused banana farmers of being behind the entire drug trade that caused the immediate sinking of all exports. He also cuts funds to the eastern departments.
There's the real ... ( 1 week ago by keytoothed)
There's the real threat of civil war breaking out as resource-rich departamentos, controlled by the elite, want to secede as they trample the humans rights of Bolivia's indigenous population into the mud, and you blame the economic ruin of his nation on a speech he made? Are you kidding me? Every other nation on the planet's been raping Bolivia, to say nothing of the failed war on drugs, School of the Americas. Please.



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