However, Bolivia is the one country in the Americas that has avoided much of the violence so commonly associated with drug production. In Bolivia’s lowland Chapare region, much of the population grows, dries, and sells coca leaf, and some directly process cocaine paste or smuggle the final product. Umberto told Angel that soon he would be going on another “trip” and invited him to join him, a subtext Angel understood immediately as referring to processing cocaine paste, the first step to refining pure cocaine. He had to-Umberto was his padrino, or godfather. Eventually his nephew, Angel, agreed to join him within the hour. Lurching along cobbled roads in Bolivia’s Chapare region on his mud splattered motorbike, coca farmer Umberto Flores searched for his relatives and friends because he had coca seedlings ready to plant but needed more help. This article was co-published with Latin America News Dispatch.
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