Coca Lives
(Juan C. Roberto Lanza, 2006, 88min, Bolivia, Spanish&Quechua, &Aymara with English subtitles, Color)

Today, there are 70,000 families in Bolivia whose lives depend exclusively on the ancestral farming of the coca leaf. This practice has been declared illegal for the past 12 years in Bolivia. The US has monitored the application of the law and has engineered consistent military and economic pressure. What are the real motives and consequences behind the US campaign to wipe out the coca leaf culture?
-- Part of the Latin American FIlm Festival

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies