>>>Drugs? Not exactly. He is the leader of the people who grow coca leaves. Some of those leaves are used to produce illegal drugs, some are chewed directly. Neither the coca-growing nor chewing the leaves are illegal in Bolivia and some neighboring countries, but the government has put some restrictions - mainly as a result of pressure from the U.S. - on the amount that can be grown.
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>>Hardly anyone in Bolivia will find the stuff with E.Coca strange. However, there is something else about him and his group which some find quite objectionable: the fact that they have often organized road blocks, as a measure of protest against all sorts of things. Now that MAS (Movement Towards Socialism, his party) gets to power, perhaps someone else will take over, organizing the roadblocks...
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>Up here the roadblocks are usually organised by an outfit calling themselves The Department Of Transport.

The OPP do their fair share too (well not exactly blocks - bur stops), looking for drunk & drug drivers.