Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban
• AFPBolivians chewed coca leaves in
demonstrations around the country Wednesday to push for a change in a
1961 UN convention to remove a ban on a practice that has been part of
indigenous cultures here for millennia.
Protesters gathered outside the US embassy in La Paz to chew the leaf as part of a day of demonstrations around the country celebrating the coca plant and demanding that the UN Single Convention on Narcotics Drugs be amended.
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