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 with coca
union leaders, peasant farmers, drug traffickers, and politicians,
Grisaffi outlines the tension that Morales faced between the
realities of international politics and his constituents, who, even
if their coca is grown for ritual or medicinal purposes, are
implicated in the cocaine trade and criminalized under the U.S.-led
drug war. Grisaffi shows how Morales's failure to meet his
constituents' demands demonstrates that the full realization of
alternative democratic models at the local or national level is
constrained or enabled by global political and economic
circumstances.
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