They have brought with them such aspects of Indian culture as the music of the altiplano and the addictive habit of chewing raw coca leaves.
President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia arrives in Washington this week with startling information: The market for raw coca leaves in his country has collapsed.
As a result, the price for raw coca leaves plummeted.
Each was a possible site where raw coca leaves began the refining process.
The chemicals needed to break down the raw coca were in short supply -ether especially.
In addition, said a foreign official here, "the price of coca paste is down in Cali because of pressure back in the countryside," where raw coca is processed.
The Colombian campaign apparently disrupted trafficking enough to puncture the market for raw coca leaves in Bolivia.
American officials believe traffickers rely more on river boats than aircraft to move raw coca now, and depend much less on aircraft that are vulnerable to air interdiction efforts.
With the factory handed back to the company post-war, production was difficult due to rationing and limited imports of raw coca.
What bothers me the most isn't that WoW is just EverQuest 1 with the formula refined from raw coca leaves to high grade Cocaine.