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Various of Bolivian woman chewing on coca 2. Close up of coca 3. Woman with bag of coca 4. Various of coca truck arriving in La Paz Villa Fatima Coca Market, with bags of coca being unloaded 5. Various of bags of coca...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLa Paz - recent\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of Bolivian woman chewing on coca \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of coca \u003cbr/\u003e3. Woman with bag of coca \u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of coca truck arriving in La Paz Villa Fatima Coca Market, with bags of coca being unloaded \u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of bags of coca being delivered in market \u003cbr/\u003e6. Cutaway of coca leaves \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Catalina, (surname not given) coca farmer\u003cbr/\u003e \"Coca is everything to us. Sometimes we don't have much to eat and so sometimes we make coca tea for the babies and for us. It takes away our hunger. It's also medicine. When our children wake up and they have stomach aches, we give them coca.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Set up Hernan Justo, President of Villa Fatima Market in market pan to Bolivian woman gathering coca at market \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hernan Justo, President of Villa Fatima Market\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are a bit worried as Coca farmers because on a global level, there are international organisations like the UN, the OAS (Organisation of American States) and other entities who without knowing enough about coca they dare to talk about it. Today, due that that kind of ignorance because of the derivatives of coca, the plant has been stigmatised globally - they have demonised it.\" \u003cbr/\u003eUnknown location - recent (police asked for the location to remain confidential) \u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of coca burning operation \u003cbr/\u003eLa Paz - recent \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hernan Justo, President of Villa Fatima Market\u003cbr/\u003e \"We are soon going to hold fairs, events for countries who are friendly with Bolivia to be able make the real identity of coca which represents and reflects the identity of our indigenous peoples.\" \u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of coca products \u003cbr/\u003e13. Exterior of coca museum \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sdenka Silva, anthropologist and co-founder of La Paz's Coca Museum \u003cbr/\u003e\"There is no social activity in which coca does not feature. It's present in any kind of celebration because coca is synonymous to celebration, to festivities, of being equal, of being friends. And it is used to read the future too.\" \u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of witches market where coca is burned as part of ritual \u003cbr/\u003e16. Client going to see a coca witchdoctor  \u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of coca witchdoctor reading coca leaves \u003cbr/\u003e18. UPSOUND: (Spanish) Witchdoctor, no name given\u003cbr/\u003e \"Let's see if you have any problems - no, there are none here. Maybe you may have problems with your health.. You're ok - you are going to do well.\" \u003cbr/\u003e19. Closeup of client \u003cbr/\u003e20. Closeup of coca  \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Witchdoctor, no name given\u003cbr/\u003e \"We are talking about a tradition that has been around for centuries, since the Incaic era who are our ancestors. It's part of our Andean culture. And we believe in this, we have faith in this and we believe in the 'mama'. \u003cbr/\u003e22. Various shot of coca fortune telling \u003cbr/\u003eCoca  chewing is something of a national pastime in Bolivia. \u003cbr/\u003eThe South American country is proud of its coca industry and President Evo Morales recently announced plans to spend $300,000 to develop legal markets for coca. (February 2008)\u003cbr/\u003eHowever coca is the key ingredient in the narcotic cocaine and a U.N.-affiliated drug watchdog has called for the abolition of traditional uses of the leaf long revered in the Andes.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut by emphasising its use in everyday products such as tea, flour and herbal medicines, Morales hopes to rescue the crop from the drug trade. \u003cbr/\u003eFarmers at La Paz's coca market have travelled by truck, with their families in tow, from the Yungas region to get to the coca market in La Paz.  \u003cbr/\u003eIt's a hair raising 10 hour drive but they make the journey once every three months, when their crop of coca leaves is harvested.  \u003cbr/\u003eTwenty thousand farming families from the Yungas depend on the Villa Fatima market.  \u003cbr/\u003eThey come to sell their coca leaves by the kilo - it sells at just over $4 per kg (2.2lb).  \u003cbr/\u003eThe coca here is intended for traditional use only.  \u003cbr/\u003eTraders need to have a licence to buy or sell coca at the market.  But those who come rarely want to be filmed - they presume cameras are there to accuse them of cocaine production.  \u003cbr/\u003eFor Catalina, like many other Bolivians, coca is everything but. Bolivians have chewed coca as a mild stimulant for centuries - to get rid of altitude sickness, fatigue and hunger.  \u003cbr/\u003eHernan Justo - coca farmer and manager of the market - says he can't understand opposition to selling coca. But Bolivia remains the world's third-largest producer of cocaine after Colombia and Peru.  \u003cbr/\u003eBolivia's President Evo Morales, a former coca grower, has stepped up anti-cocaine enforcement - burning coca leaves to comply with US drug enforcement as part of Washington's war on drugs. \u003cbr/\u003eBut for Morales, anti-cocaine policies should not mean anti-coca policies. While the US pushes to criminalise the leaf, Morales actually wants to produce more of it.  \u003cbr/\u003eHe has lobbied to remove coca from the 1961 convention, which blacklists it alongside cocaine and heroine, and wants to increase production by nearly double.  \u003cbr/\u003eHe says there are thousands of Bolivian farmers who make their living growing coca. And the plan is to commercialise it. \u003cbr/\u003eMorales' promotion of the coca leaf is a point of contention within the international community, particularly for the U.S., which has spent decades and hundreds of millions of dollars fighting Bolivia's crop as part of its war on drugs.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut the 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs lists the leaf alongside cocaine, heroin and opium as a Schedule I narcotic, and declared that coca chewing  (a custom that predates the Inca empire) should be \"abolished\" worldwide by 1987.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe International Narcotics Control Board, charged with enforcing the 47-year-old treaty, released an annual report in March 2008 chiding Bolivia for not having followed the convention guidelines.  \u003cbr/\u003eHernan Justo says Bolivia needs to sell coca derived products around the world. \u003cbr/\u003eIn its natural form, the leaf is sacred to indigenous groups, and a central part of Bolivian life. 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