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 […]