Evo Morales Ayma | Sagrada Coca Verde

A CRASHED UTOPIA

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.

Jan 29 2017

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).

Jan 29 2017

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.

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

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.

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A CRASHED UTOPIA

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