Bolivian coca crops follow a planned highway through indigenous lands

Mongabay
Oct 19, 2018, 12:45 pm245 pts
Matilde Noza says she has never chewed a coca leaf. Noza, an indigenous woman, lives in the Nueva Galilea community of the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, better known by its Spanish acronym, TIPNIS. She respects the coca plant, she says, but it’s not part of the traditions of her…

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