The Beat Goes On: The U.S. War on Coca

Farthing and Ledebur discuss the agreement between the Bolivian and the US government regarding cocaine eradication in which Bolivians are depending on the coca production as their way of living. After almost three weeks of tensions, the Bolivian government signed a landmark agreement with coca growers permitting 3,200 hectares of coca to remain in the region for one year. Despite the high social costs of the militarized forced eradication program, the price, purity and availability of cocaine entering the US have remained steady.