[ChicagoHebrew]

I can´t believe they'd actually eradicate coca farming totally. Something like 80% of the population chews coca or drinks coca tea (neither of which are narcotic), and the indigeneous people -- who are only partially Christian -- still view coca as sacred. Maybe they will just try to control it better?

[wtc911]

I can´t believe they'd actually eradicate coca farming totally. Something like 80% of the population chews coca or drinks coca tea (neither of which are narcotic), and the indigeneous people -- who are only partially Christian -- still view coca as sacred. Maybe they will just try to control it better?

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The official phrase was "forcibly eradicate" by 2008. It's a war.

[nicollo]

Something like 80% of the population chews coca or drinks coca tea (neither of which are narcotic), and the indigeneous people -- who are only partially Christian -- still view coca as sacred.

I'd say this protest is much larger than farmers and their tea.

Btw, have you seen the teeth of the cocoa chewer? Ain't pretty. The tea ain't so right, either. Not narcotic, but hardly benign.