cocalero

plural cocaleros

1. A grower of coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia.

   The agency buys coca from registered cocaleros and then resells it at traditional coca markets or […]

   2014 September 25, Ursula Durand Ochoa, The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru, Springer, →ISBN

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   With a cocalero in power, cocalero activists no longer shut down the main highway from Santa Cruz, enabling the province’s exports to reach important markets.

   2007 September 18, Simon Romero, “A Radical Gives Bolivia Some Stability”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021

   The cocaleros carried the leaves from the valleys where they are grown to high Andean villages of the sort we'd just passed, and the trail had been used for this purpose since the days of the conquistadors.

   2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company