Posts Tagged ‘Coca’
Evo Morales and Oliver Stone Share Some Coca
10:35 am By Maegan La Mala · Bolivia| Movies| Venezuela · Comments Off
14 Jan 2009
Why was Bolivia’s President Evo Morales doing chewing coca leaves and kicking a futbol around with U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone? Talking about their bff Hugo Chavez.
Stone is working on a film about the Venezuelan president and was interviewing Morales.
Also, it just came through the Twittersphere that Morales is cutting diplomatic relations with Israel over what is happening in Gaza. More details as they come in.
Via / The Huffington Post
Bolivia Doesn’t Want the World to Have a Coke
12:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia| business · Comments Off
16 Mar 2007
The Bolivian constitution is being rewritten and that could impact business world wide. How? One of the provisions being pushed by the constitutional committee would ban foreign companies from using the name of their sacred coca plant.
Margarita Teran, head of the Coca Committee, told daily newspaper La Razon she was dismayed that Coca-Cola can sell soft drinks worldwide without restrictions while Bolivia is barred from exporting products made with coca.
Such a law is not unheard of. It’s what keeps sparking wine from being called champagne, for example. What’s different here is that coca is placed in the same catagory as opium and cannabis by the U.N. and that prevents its legal export, even when it’s not in cocaine. President Evo Morales is trying to change that by pushing coca leaf products. The U.S. ain’t having it though even though currently the U.S. is the number one market for coca’s most well known use, as an illegal drug.
Via / MSNBC
Venezuela Lending Bolivia a Hand for Coca
4:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia| Venezuela · Comments Off
15 Feb 2007
The cultivation of the coca plant in Bolivia and President Evo Morales’s defense of it has caused controversy and strain in relations between Bolivia and other countries, especially the United States. The coca plant is the raw ingredient in cocaine, but its leaves are also chewed and used to make completely legal tea. Other countries, especially those fellow South American ones led by fellow left leaning presidentes, support Bolivia and its coca cultivation. Take Venezuela who last week agreed to spot Bolivia about $250,000 to build two coca processing plants in Chapare and Las Yungas.
The plants will specifically manufacture a tea called trimate (pronounced tree ma te not try mate), a blend of coca, aniseed, and chamomile.
Via / Fox News
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Colombia Almost Done Spraying
5:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Ecuador · Comments Off
26 Dec 2006
Colombia has been spraying potentially harmful herbicides over 25,000 acres of coca fields in a border zone shared with Ecuador. This spraying, backed by the United States, has created problems to say the least between the two South American nations, including Ecuadorian president-elect, Rafael Correa cancelling a planned visit to Bogota to protest the spraying. Colombia is saying that the spraying will end soon.
Via / Fox News
U.S. Blackmailing Bolivia?
9 Mar 2006
That’s right President Evo Morales is saying. On March 6 the United States “declassified” Bolivia as a partner in the war against terrorism. This means the withdrawal of more than $300 000 of U.S. funds from the South American country. The U.S. Embassy did not comment immediately but the withdrawal probably can be linked to Morales’s left of center politics which includes decriminalizing coca farming. Morales said that the funds had been withdrawn :
Because we don’t accept vetoes or the change of a commander, blackmail comes from the US armed force.
Via / SABC News
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