Abstract

RAMOS SALAZAR, Sandra Rosmery. The new law on coca: Socio-political effects on producers in Yungas. Temas Sociales [online]. 2018, n.43, pp.39-66. ISSN 0040-2915.

Abstract The new law on coca (2017) brings into conflict two models of interpretation of the legitimacy of its production: an economic-political model, impelled by the government and producers of the Chapare, versus that of the original ancestral producers ofthe Yungas (La Paz, Bolivia). Its sociopolitical effects are evidenced in: a) weakening of mutual support between Yungas producers and the government; b)  crisis due to polarization within and between organizations and institutions; c)  a crisis in the sociopolitical order of producers.

Keywords : social movement; coca; peasant organization; conflict.

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