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Coca has been, ancestrally, a sacred leaf. We, the indigenous, have had a profound respect toward it... a respect that includes that we don't "pisar" it (the verb "pisar" means to treat the leaves with a chemical substance, one of the first steps in the production of cocaine). In general, we only use it to acullicar: We chew it during times of war, during ritual ceremonies to salute Mother Earth (the Pachamama) or Father Sun or other Aymara divinities, like the hills. Thus, as an indigenous nation, we have never prostituted Mama Coca or done anything artificial to it because it is a mother. It is the occidentals who have prostituted it. It is they who made it into a drug. This doesn't mean that we don't understand the issue. We know that this plague threatens all of humanity and, from that perspective, we believe that those who have prostituted the coca have to be punished. - former Bolivian guerrilla leader and presidential candidate Felipe Quispe 2002 via Rigorous Intuition (link)
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Augusto Cesar Sandino: Máximo Héroe Nicaragüense
Sandino publicly advocated the mutilation and beheading of Nicaragua's enemies, and Pedro "Pedron" Altamirano was his most accomplished machete wielder, famous for his "vest cut" - beheading followed by lopping off of both arms at the shoulder.
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Eso es Señor, Buche es enemigo del pueblo.
Posted by: Hemisphere Creep | 03 March 2008 at 21:02