2017 | Sagrada Coca Verde

RETURN to BOLIVIA

Jan 20 2017

The circle, broken and interrupted in 1994, of my experience in the Bolivian region of Chapare got apparently closed in the thin air of 4000 meters of La Paz …

I am deeply grateful to Felipe Cáceres García, Viceministro de Defensa Social, for receiving me with his usual openhearted friendship, hosting me in his Ministry, where I could compile some proposals on the beneficial use of the sacred green Coca, as well as fulfilling a duty of justice in the rehabilitation of my civil rights.

Jan 20 2017

When I was running the solidarity operation Rayos de sol in Bolivian region of Chapare, men and women used to gather in the evening, at the light of the oil lamp, in front of the table where the little mat with the leaves was prepared.

Although not yet fully aware, I was passively taking part in the ritual of the sacred green Coca, absorbing the aura of ancestral heritages that had never before convened me so intensely; by then I had clearly caught the meaning of the sacred mystery of Coca in its communitarian dimension, however I was anxious to find out the real mechanisms by which Coca leaves were considered a source of physical and mental energy.

Jan 20 2017

In Khartoum, capital of Sudan, on 15 May 1988, a terrorist attack at the Akropole Hotel leave shreds of life piled up under the amazed starry African sky, relentlessly dark blue, while the Fate … stops me to deal with Life … still Life, even when reduced to shards.

Jan 20 2017

01. COCA is NATIVE

An irreplaceable symbol of Andean identity, protected by the Cultural Rights of Peoples.

02. COCA is GREEN

A component of the Andean-Amazonian region ecosystem, as well as all the plants of Nature.

Jan 20 2017

On the waves of memory a prophetical story I heard sometimes in the Andes: here it goes.

“An elderly Andean priest, Kyana Chuyma, while the Spanish invaders were approaching, fled with the treasure of the Temple of Taytacha Inti, the Father Sun, and threw it into the sacred Lake Titijaja, on the Peruvian-Bolivian border, between the islands of the Sun and the Moon, to put it safe before being captured and subjected to ill-treatment and torture that left him half dead.

Archive - 2017

RETURN to BOLIVIA

COCA and I, in BOLIVIAN CHAPARE

WALKING in the SUN

The DECALOGUE of COCA

An ANDEAN LEGEND