Keep opening up a big mouth Evo, there is a cell in Miami with your name on it.
Please if you are ignorant of the facts don't go on attacking the people in Bolivia who don't use coca or support Evo Morales. If you didn't know, the coca leaf is not considered a drug but an ailment to many poor people who live not only in Bolivia, but other parts of South America. Poor people in these countries use only natural remedies because they can't afford a doctor or dentist. Of course there are people who abuse the coca leaf. There are "druggies" in every country, including the U.S. Don't be ignorant to go on thinking that every Bolivian uses coca. They don't. I've been there and other parts of South America and can stand by what I say.
Keep opening up a big mouth Evo, there is a cell in Miami with your name on it.
Oh, please, the people of Bolivia have been chewing the coca leaves for STIMULATING EFFECT since they've been growing the very plants.
It's you who is being "ignorant."
I am also not, blanketly, "blaming the people of Bolivia" for drug cartels and the product that they sell.
Those on this thread who are attempting to make this an "you're blaming the innocent coca farmers of Bolivia/people of Bolivia" are being nonsensical.
No where have I done that as to an entire population of any nation or area. However, the point here is that it is wrong and fantastical in nature to attempt to promote some passover as to evaluating much of the culture there, that is and has been for many generations now, dependent upon growing, harvesting, using and selling products derived from their coca plants.
And who also use those products themselves.
The days of the "he's just a peasant farmer so don't hold him accountable" days of giving passes to those who grow the source of narcotics is over. Look at Afghanistan...the militants from among the "poor peasants" there by majority use heroine -- which they grow -- they grow what's easiest to harvest.
Bolivia has just been growing and relishing in growing what's easiest for them and that's the coca plant. There is no mystery as to what it's used for. Even among those who grow it.
Since Bolivia is among the world's highest producers of cocaine, it's then pretty straightforward a conclusion to make that the "people" who are growing coca plants in Bolivia are also instruementally involved in the industry of cocaine.
Everyone here who is trying to make the message the problem is defending the problem. Poor people, peasantry, being poor, does not inherently make one righteous and the poor can and do engage in criminality, too.
The point I'm making is not to generalize all of Bolivians as "bad," but to point out that as a nation and OVERALL CULTURE, Bolivia and Bolivians ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PRODUCING MUCH OF THE COCAINE that they then EXPORT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.
Not like the 'poor peasants' do not understand what they are doing. And to suggest that they use the coca plant in Bolivia "as medicine" is stupid given that most of them laugh about it as being used for stimulant effect. They chew the leaves as a stimulant. Nothing innocent about that, given that they recognize the "drug" effect.
Someone ELSE on this thread used the word, "druggie," which is not in my vocabulary except in response to someone who used the term. However, in effect, those who use coca as a stimulant are, in fact, using it for that purpose: as a drug. They aren't seeing doctors with pains and infections before chewing it and drinking it down from boiling. No, they readily chew it every day, day in, day out and give it to children, culturally encourage the practices. They use the leaves AS DRUGS and understand what they're doing when they sell the leaves for purposes of making cocaine.
I'm not sympathetic.