Visiting Fellow, University of Reading
Kathryn Ledebur has researched coca production in Bolivia since 1999 as director of the Andean Information Network and is a visiting fellow at the University of Reading. Ledebur studied at FLACSO in Quito, Ecuador and has lived in Bolivia for more than a decade. Her work takes her regularly to the Chapare coca growing region. She is the author of “Bolivia: Clear Consequences,” in Coletta A. Youngers and Eileen Rosin, eds., Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2005). AIN is dedicated to investigation, analysis, education and dialogue on the impacts of U.S.-funded counterdrug efforts in Bolivia.

Peru's war on drugs is an abject failure – here's what it can learn from Bolivia
Jun 03, 2020 15:24 pm UTC| Economy
When Peruvian government forces began eradicating coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, without warning in a remote corner of Perus principal coca growing region last November, they were met by growers armed with sticks...