Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
Coca’s comeback
Seventy-five years after efforts to suppress coca chewing, Mattha Busby examines how a landmark WHO review could redefine a sacred Andean tradition and challenge decades of anti-drug stigma.
And f**k off they did
514 - July, 2018
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In May 2018, a group of 15 mostly Peruvian workers decided enough was enough...
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