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Evo Morales opens coca factory
This story, unsigned and from Reuters, is on the wire right now. LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales visited a coca-growing region on Saturday to open a Venezuelan-funded factory...
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Chicha (fermented rye) at Tinku on Bolivian high plains
The New York Times, 13 Feb. 07, reports about the fighting and the drinking (chicha from fermented rye) at what is called Tinku on the Bolivian high plains. For more, see here.
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Cocaine and the Environment
A case study published in the Trade and Environment Database, at the American University in Washington, DC, reports that the production of cocaine in South America, especially the Andean region, has...
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Drink, power, and society in the Andes (book)
Justin Jennings and Brenda J. Bowswer, Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008). Posted in Alcohol (general), Bolivia, Peru
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Drinking Games, from Bolivia to Connecticut (article)
Michael Gladwell, "Drinking Games," New Yorker, Feb. 15, 2010. Thank you to Kevin Grace for the tip. The article recounts a research finding from the 1950s when Dwight Heath was a young anthropology...
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George F. Will on “the drug legalization dilemma”
Conservative columnist George F. Will writes the first in his series of opinion-pieces on the legalization of drugs (Washington Post). The column includes these interesting statistics: “Almost all...
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Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (anthology)
Pierce, Gretchen, and Aurea Toxqui, eds. Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. Filed under: Alcohol (general), Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,...
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