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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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ce399. 8/8/08
I have a responsibility to make sure that our state has enough money to pay its bills. It is a terrible situation to be in. I don't think any governor wants to be in this situation ... But this is really the only way out at this point - Arnold Schwarzenegger 2 August 2008
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Fantastic job.
Best Regards,
Arnold
Posted by: Schwarzengger | 03 August 2008 at 13:54