Coca Yes, Cocaine No: How Bolivia's Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy

by Thomas Grisaffi

In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party. When Evo Morales--leader of the MAS--became Bolivia's president in 2006, coca growers celebrated his election and the possibility of scaling up their form of grassroots democracy to the national level. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478002972
• ISBN13: 9781478002970
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"