The World - News from June 1, 1988
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About 1,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, chanting “Death to the United States” and “Up with coca” to protest legislation that would restrict cultivation of the plant used to make cocaine. Police reported no arrests or violence as the protesters, mostly coca farmers from the Yungas region of the Andes, passed within a block of the U.S. Embassy. The legislation, not yet signed into law, would classify coca as a controlled substance.
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