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An ARTICLE from LA RAZÓN of BOLIVIA, 11th November 2006

Jan 29 2017

USA OPPOSE TO INDUSTRIALIZATION OF COCA

Even as toothpaste, shampoo, food or liquor. This is the statement of the Under Secretary for Narcotics Affairs of the Government of President Bush. The Bolivian strategy of decriminalization of the leaf keeps considering its industrialization as the main axis.

An official of the US State Department has warned that his country is opposed to the sale of products derived from coca. The Government of Evo Morales holds the called industrialization of the leaf as an essential pillar of the strategy for its decriminalization.

Jan 29 2017

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.

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An ARTICLE from LA RAZÓN of BOLIVIA, 11th November 2006

A CRASHED UTOPIA