King Coca.Growing small amounts of coca for national consumption is still legal in Bolivia Bolivia (bōlĭv`ēə, Span. bōlē`vyä), officially Republic of Bolivia, republic (2005 est. pop. 8,858,000), 424,162 sq mi (1,098,581 sq km), W South America. , and powerful unions represent some 30,000 coca farmers in the Chapare and Yungas region near La Paz La Paz, city, Bolivia La Paz (lä päs), city (1992 pop. 713,378), W Bolivia, administrative capital (since 1898) and largest city of Bolivia. The legal capital is Sucre. . During municipal elections in December, coca farmers were elected mayors of several towns in the Chapare under the slogans "Vote for Coca," and "Coca is not cocaine cocaine (kōkān`, kō`kān), alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the coca shrub. A commonly abused illegal drug, cocaine has limited medical uses, most often in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in ." However, nearly all the coca grown in the Chapare is indeed turned into cocaine. "Probably 99 percent of the coca in the Chapare is for the cocaine industry. That's a fact that almost everybody in the Chapare realizes," says a U.S. State A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and Department official. |
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