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Kathryn Ledebur

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Visiting Fellow in Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading

Demonstrators protest demanding the resignation of the country’s interim president Jeanine Añez in El Alto, Bolivia, August 14 2020. EPA-EFE/STR

September 7, 2020

Bolivia reverses years of progress with new draconian cocaine policy, supported by the EU

Kathryn Ledebur, University of Reading; Linda Farthing, University of Reading, and Thomas Grisaffi, University of Reading

Bolivia’s drug control strategy was once internationally applauded.

Drying coca, Chapare, Bolivia © Thomas Grisaffi

May 30, 2020

Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia

Thomas Grisaffi, University of Reading; Kathryn Ledebur, University of Reading, and Linda Farthing, University of Reading

Production of coca leaf, the raw material in cocaine, is surging in Peru despite 40 years of forced eradication designed to convince farmers to abandon it. Bolivia shows a better way forward.

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Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia
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