Monthly Archives: March 2017
Contested Ground: the ‘War on Drugs’ in Bolivia
(Originally published in The Drouth, Territory, Winter 2015-2016, Issue 53.) In April 1998, Bolivian President Hugo Banzer sent the army into the Chapare. Trouble in the region had flared as the new President – and former-dictator[1] – pursued his vision of ‘zero-coca by 2002’. Banzer’s Plan Dignidad, it was argued, would remove Bolivia from the drug […]
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