2500-1800 BC In Northern Peru a remarkable finding of traces of Coca leaves in the area of the ruins of Huanca Prieto.
2100 BC In Valdivian culture of Ecuador and in ceramics of Nazca and Mochica cultures in Peru (600-360 BC) relevant findings of traditional use of Coca.
1200-1475 A kind of oils essence extracted from Coca leaves was used by Incas, when practising surgical excision of brain tumors.
Whoever meets the sacred green Coca in the Andean-Amazonian region can take away just its memory, because it remains firmly enclosed in its ancestral nest … or maybe Coca is really … a prisoner?
Going over the past years several confirmations arise in favor of a positive response.
In 1912 at The Hague (Netherlands), cocaine, together with green Coca as its raw materials, was included in the Opium Convention, signed in 1913 by the Government of Peru, so giving a start to a negative campaign against Coca plant, promoted by Peruvian psychiatrists (Valdizán, 1913).
The global situation I found myself immersed in the jungle of Bolivian Chapare bore the indelible mark the History had imprinted over the centuries; the following comments reflect my own experience, by the time of my journey through that region, at the beginning of the 90ties.
The rural population mostly indigenous has historical and cultural roots in the heart of the ancient Inca Empire of Tawantinsuyu, meaning in quechua language Empire of the four corners or cardinal points; it stretches along the spine of the Andes from Venezuela to Chile and its fate was the annihilation during the Spanish conquest.
Meeting Peoples, in a world without borders, where the cultural realities can express themselves in the richness and variety of knowledges and ancestral traditions, as the sacred green Coca: an utopia … well worth any price.
It was July 1994 in the rainforest of tropical Bolivian Chapare, where for about a year I was running, as only expatriate, the operation of solidarity Rayos de sol, with the support of the fans of my adventures, even when … lost battles.
In collaboration with the indigenous communities and the leadership of the Federation of the Peasants Workers of the Tropic of Cochabamba (FETCTC), whose executive secretary was the aymara unionist Evo Morales Ayma, a micro-project got on the way, with the main objective of the integral development of the communities in that region, including the defense, enhancement and promotion of Coca, the sacred plant of the Andean-Amazon world.
In the Andean-Amazonian region, cradle of the Erythroxylum Coca, the sacred plant of the Andes, over several decades it’s the watchword: war on Coca …
The officially stated objective is the destruction of cocales, the crops of Coca, to avoid the artificial production of cocaine hydrochloride, known as white powder.
However, on the base of the full knowledges about the sacred plant of the Andes, that objective is badly formulated, if not downright false.
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