TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab. But this is La ...

Step inside Bolivia’s strangest supermarket where a Coca-Cola truck steals the show. Full of quirky products, huge soda ...

FILE - Spiritual guide Julio Quispe performs a ceremony with coca leaves for a confederation of Indigenous governing bodies in La Paz, Bolivia, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) FILE - Spiritual ...

President Evo Morales is not known as a friend of Washington — his left-wing politics, like those of his ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, often put him at odds with the Bush Administration. But ...

A coca vendor works at a legal coca leaf market in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Bolivia’s government has revived a years-long battle to get the U.N. to decriminalize the coca leaf, an ...

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Buzz is building around a new star beverage in Bolivia, where the coca leaf has long been legal despite the U.N.’s blanket prohibition due to the plant’s association with cocaine. TRINIDAD PAMPA, ...

TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia (AP) — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab. But this ...