Bolivia

Tue, 18 May 2010 09:15:55 +0000

Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Bolivia. Trend Not much has been done to open the discussion toward a more humane legislative framework for drug control. The current law prohibits dru ...

Building on Progress

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:33:51 +0000

Bolivia has seen a decline in coca cultivation for the fourth consecutive year, according to data released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). An analysis of this data by t ...

Habeas Coca

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:15:14 +0000

With significant pressure and earmarked funding from the United States and other demand-side countries, the Andean countries of Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru have struggled for decades with the questio ...

Drugs and prisons in Bolivia

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:13:54 +0000

Bolivia has announced its intention to reform its drug law (Law 1008), which has been criticized for resulting in sentences that are disproportionate to the crimes committed. But nothing has happened ...

Drug Laws and Prisons in Bolivia

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:37:12 +0000

Bolivia’s participation in the international drug-trafficking circuit was determined by a series of factors, ranging from the ancestral tradition of growing and consuming coca leaf, to the endemic po ...