cocalero

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English

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Etymology

From Spanish cocalero.

Noun

cocalero (plural cocaleros)

  1. A grower of coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia.
    • 2007 September 18, Simon Romero, “A Radical Gives Bolivia Some Stability”, in New York Times‎:
      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.
    • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
      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 September 25, Ursula Durand Ochoa, The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru, Springer, →ISBN:
      The agency buys coca from registered cocaleros and then resells it at traditional coca markets or […]

Spanish

Etymology

From coca +‎ -ero.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kokaˈleɾo/
  • Rhymes: -eɾo
  • Syllabification: co‧ca‧le‧ro

Adjective

cocalero (feminine cocalera, masculine plural cocaleros, feminine plural cocaleras)

  1. coca (plant)
    • 2016 October 28, “Evo Morales denuncia conspiración contra Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela”, in El Universo‎:
      A pesar del cuadro político y social en Venezuela, Morales dijo que espera "reconfirmar, hasta ahora confirmado, que el presidente Maduro estará el 18 de diciembre" en la región cocalera boliviana, su bastión electoral, en el día de la Revolución Democrática Cultural.
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Noun

cocalero m (plural cocaleros, feminine cocalera, feminine plural cocaleras)

  1. cocalero (grower of coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia)

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