Bolivia is the third largest producer of coca leaves, after Colombia and Peru. Coca leaves has been a part of the culture of Bolivian for long time. In Bolivia, derived from the Aymara Indians, they eat forest plant – which then they discovered the coca bush; use it for health remedies, etc. For the Bolivian, the coca leaf has not only been a staple crop but it also becomes a powerful symbol of cultural, religious, and medical identity. However, coca contains alkaloids and used to produce cocaine, a drug causing worldwide devastation. Boomed in the mid 1960s, places, including Bolivia have come to constitute one of the major centers for the first stage of refining cocaine. There was a chronic unemployment and poverty created, which then gave
