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

Yeah, but the DOT does it by randomly strewing traffic cones all over the highways. We have an area just south of Highway 7 on Warden that is astonishing. There are traffic cones all over the place, and white lines drawn over top of other white lines, crossing them, veering from them, overlapping. It's amazing any traffic gets through there at all. It looks as if a feeble half-hearted attempt was made to erase the original lines by schoolkids with chalk erasers before adding new lines intended to divert traffic into other areas. It's like a birds nest.