Bolivian President Evo Morales holds up a coca leaf as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly September 19, 2006 at the UN in New York...
Forty two year old Santos Rodriguez is one of hundreds working in the coca leaf plantations January 8, 2001 in the province of Putumayo, Colombia....
Member of the AUC, the United Self Defense Force of Colombia, the extreme right paramilitary group, destroys coca leaves with a machete at a coca...
Two members of the AUC, the United Self Defense Force of Colombia, the extreme right paramilitary group, patrol a coca leaf plantation where a manual...
Coca and Cannabis plantation seen visibly from the roadside in the countryside on December 28, 2016 in Corinto, Colombia.
Bolivian buys coca leaves on the street December 11, 2005 in La Paz, Bolivia. Bolivia, one of the poorest countries in South America, is about to...
Woman sells coca leaves at market of traditional medicines in La Paz, Bolivia. | Location: La Paz, Bolivia.
Coca farming is a lucrative cash crop for poor farmers in the Andes. It is the raw material for the manufacture of the prohibited drug cocaine, but...
Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma displays a leaf from a coca plant while addressing the General Assembly. At the morning session on the final day...
President of the PluriNational State of Bolivia Evo Morales Ayma holds up a coca leaf during his comments about the right of Bolivian farmers to grow...
In Bolivia's market streets coca is available practically everywhere and is sold alongside meats and vegetables.
Women pick coca leaves during the harvest in the mountains near Chulumani, in Bolivia. Coca leaves are the source of cocaine and when the women tire,...
Person offers a coca leaf to a skull during the traditional fiesta de las ñatitas on November 8, 2024 in La Paz, Bolivia. "Las ñatitas" is a...
View of cupcakes of coca leaf flour during the celebration of the national day of the 'Acullico' on January 11, 2024 in La Paz, Bolivia. Also known...
Medicinal plant, coca shrub, Erythroxylum coca or coca bush, coca plant, a species of plant belonging to the redwood family, Historical, digitally...
An unidentified farmer sprays pesticide onto his coca plantation August 31, 2002 in La Hormiga, Colombia. Several farmers in the area have lost their...
May 2023, Colombia, Llorente: Workers, locally called "raspachines," harvest coca leaves in a plantation. Photo: Edinson Arroyo/dpa
People chew coca leaf during the celebration of the day of 'Acullico' at Plaza de San Francisco on October 22, 2021 in La Paz, Bolivia. 'Acullico' or...
People try to get coca leaves from the floor during the celebration of the day of 'Acullico' at Plaza de San Francisco on October 22, 2021 in La Paz,...
People get coca leaves from a table during the celebration of the day of 'Acullico' at Plaza de San Francisco on October 22, 2021 in La Paz, Bolivia....
People try to get coca leaves from the floor during the celebration of the day of 'Acullico' at Plaza de San Francisco on October 22, 2021 in La Paz,...
April 2021, Bolivia, Chimoré: Soldiers of the Joint Task Force destroy coca plants on a plantation. To limit coca cultivation, the government has...
February 2021, Bolivia, Pizacaviña: People in typical costumes hand each other coca leaves to chew during a ritual for a better potato harvest....
Coca plantation is seen in this aerial photograph taken above Tumaco, Colombia, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. President Ivan Duque said that Colombia...
Tania Quiroz Patino the Secretary General of the farmer's federation of Chimore, Bolivia, chewing coca in her office in front of the indigenous flag....
Tania Quiroz Patino the Secretary General of the farmer's federation of Chimore, Bolivia, chewing coca in her office in front of the indigenous flag....
The sacred coca leaf is a fundamental pillar in the majority of South American native Indian cultures, whose defense of its use is a battle to...
The struggle for equality, and the recognition of fundamental rights and freedoms have marked the reality of Bolivia's indigenous communities in...
Former coca plantations are being replaced with the new ones in Vichada, Colombia on December 05, 2017. Drug trafficking was the fuel of crime,...
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, guerrilla packs sugar in a processing plant February 23, 2001 in Monteadentro, Colombia. The guerrillas...
Two "raspachines" harvest coca leaves October 9, 2000 in Caqueta, Colombia. They will then deliever the leaves to a cocaine lab. The men claim that...
Man stops to check on a drug addict who collapsed on the street September 20, 20000. Possibly because of an epilepsy attack, in Bogota, Colombia....
Bolivian President Evo Morales speaks at the United Nations General Assembly September 19, 2006 at the UN in New York City. The annual conference...
Sixteen year old Wilson Rodriguez is one of hundreds working in the coca leaf plantations January 8, 2001 in the province of Putumayo, Colombia....
Cannabis plantation seen visibly from the roadside in the countryside on December 28, 2016 in Corinto, Colombia. Corinto region produces the best...
Native Peruvian man carries a bundle of coca leaves on his back along a dirt road near Cuzco, Peru. Ca. 1930.
Farmer picks Coca leaves in a small farm in the small village of Vereda La Heroica on December 28, 2016 in Corinto, Colombia. Due to lack of margin...
Farmer stands in front of a Coca plant in a farm in the small village of Vereda La Heroica on December 28, 2016 in Corinto, Colombia. Due to lack of...
Destruction de feuilles de coca dans une propriété appartenant au narcotrafiquant Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, surnommé 'Le Mexicain', l'un des chefs du...
Coca market , a woman, here to sell her harvest, holding coca leaves in her hand. La Paz, capital of Bolivia
Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales holds a coca branch as he is greeted supporters while voting in his hometown December 18, 2005 in Villa...
Miners chew on coca leaves before entering the San Jose Mine to dig for tin and silver December 14, 2005 in Oruro, Bolivia. Miners, a crucial sector...
Coca farming is a lucrative cash crop for poor farmers in the Andes. It is the raw material for the manufacture of the prohibited drug cocaine, but...
Coca farming is a lucrative cash crop for poor farmers in the Andes. It is the raw material for the manufacture of the prohibited drug cocaine, but...
Coca leaf farmers and local residents are imprisoned by UMOPAR in the Chapar?? region for smuggling coca paste.
President of the PluriNational State of Bolivia Evo Morales Ayma holds up a coca leaf during his comments about the right of Bolivian farmers to grow...
The Cerro Rico de Potosí mine is one of the largest silver mines in Bolivia and in the world. The mine is located in the south of the country in...
The Cerro Rico de Potosí mine is one of the largest silver mines in Bolivia and in the world. The mine is located in the south of the country in...
Former coca farms that are now cultivating banana are seen on the other side of the river in Tierradentro on October 29 in Colombia. With financial...
