Checkpoint Locotal (15 images)

Locotal is a small checkpoint located in the Cochabamba Range that separates the altiplano from the plains and makes up the valleys where coca grows.
Located at 2695 meters above sea level is one of the entrances to the coca-growing region if Chapare where the most part of coca leaf destined for drug trafficking in the country is grown and home to the ruling party, Movement to Socialism.
It is also in the road between Peru and Brazil and extends from Titicaca Lake to San Matias in...
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Locotal is a small checkpoint located in the Cochabamba Range that separates the altiplano from the plains and makes up the valleys where coca grows.
Located at 2695 meters above sea level is one of the entrances to the coca-growing region if Chapare where the most part of coca leaf destined for drug trafficking in the country is grown and home to the ruling party, Movement to Socialism.
It is also in the road between Peru and Brazil and extends from Titicaca Lake to San Matias in the Amazon frontier. In the future it will also be part of the great highway connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific and has been called the narco-road.
For this reason is one of the main ways for the drug trafficking and precursor substances used in cocaine processing. The police suffer from a lack of resources to the increasingly innovative methods of drug traffickers.
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