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- noun A grower of
coca leaves inPeru orBolivia .
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Examples
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Bolivian relations, and which Morales, a cocalero and head of the coca growers 'federation, uses to galvanize his base.
Bolivia walks thin line as it struggles to battle coca production Helen Coster 2010
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Bolivian relations, and which Morales, a cocalero and head of the coca growers 'federation, uses to galvanize his base.
Bolivia walks thin line as it struggles to battle coca production Helen Coster 2010
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As cocalero-presidente Evo Morales appears on the Daily Show, his project to rewrite Bolivia's constitution key feature: unlimited reelection for the president is foundering badly and the country seems ever more likely to actually fracture.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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As cocalero-presidente Evo Morales appears on the Daily Show, his project to rewrite Bolivia's constitution key feature: unlimited reelection for the president is foundering badly and the country seems ever more likely to actually fracture.
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The cocalero associations were newer, but often the nucleus from them seems to have come from displaced miners with a tradition of organizing, as well as from the situation getting so bad that they knew they *had* to do something.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: May 2007 Archives 2007
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A couple months ago, Drug War Chronicle ran an interesting story on developments for the Bolivian coca farmers since Evo Morales, a former cocalero union leader, took political office.
Cocaine sí ¿cómo no? 2007
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On the campaign trail, garlanded in flowers and coca leaves, the fiery cocalero repeatedly denounced foreign companies for "looting" the country.
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A couple months ago, Drug War Chronicle ran an interesting story on developments for the Bolivian coca farmers since Evo Morales, a former cocalero union leader, took political office.
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She doesn't explain that Juan Evo Morales Ayma (known as Evo) was a leader of Bolivia's cocalero movement or loose federation of coca leaf-growing campesinos.
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AS: we all know that Evo Morales is coming regularly to Venezuela to pick up a money suitcasenoted cocalero leader, runner up to Bolivia presidential election, trying to make it to the top
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