La nacionalización de la lucha contra el narcotráfico en Bolivia

The study of drug policies in Bolivia is of vital importance to understand its political evolution since the return to democracy in 1982. The Law 1008 of 1988 reinforced the militarization of criminal policy inspired by doctrine of national security and the amalgam between cultivation, consumption and drug trafficking imposed by the UN international drug control conventions. The social and political conflicts that followed defending the cultivation of the coca leaf favored the mobilization of peasant organizations that eventually paved the path to power for MAS in 2006. This article analyzes the construction of a militarized anti-drug policy imposed from abroad and its posterior dismantling in the name of national sovereignty and prevention analyzing positive law, statistical data, reports and press.