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March 6, 2003

Leonida Zurita Vargas
Bolivian peasants become targets in war on drugs
Leonida Zurita Vargas, leader of the National Federation of Women Peasants in Bolivia,ÊÊtalked at Harvard about the coca leaf's importance in Andean traditional culture and the U.S. and Bolivian governments' coca eradication campaign.ÊÊListening intently in the background were (from left) Evren Paclioglu and Indhira Santos, both master's students at the Kennedy School of Government. (Staff photo by Kris Snibbe) Full story

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Mozambique cashew case illustrates hazard of imposed solutions
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Bolivian peasants suffer in drug war, speaker says
Coca plant's traditional uses make indigenous peasants targets

 

 

 

 

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