{"id":692,"date":"2005-12-19T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=692"},"modified":"2006-10-08T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T16:13:07","slug":"690-of-bolivia-coca-and-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"[690] Of Bolivia, coca and cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very soon, the Bush administration might have another source of headache. Bolivians (tag)<\/a> have just elected a socialist and an ally of Venezuelan Chavez as President<\/a>. Some have gone farther and declared that this is Washington’s nightmare.<\/p>\n

Bolivia Elects a President Who Supports Coca Farming<\/p>\n

By JUAN FORERO
\nPublished: December 19, 2005<\/p>\n

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 18 – Evo Morales, a candidate for president who has pledged to reverse a campaign financed by the United States to wipe out coca growing, scored a decisive victory in general elections in Bolivia on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What interest me the most about Morales is that he’s a former coca farmer.<\/p>\n

Coca could be processed into cocaine. During the US War on Drug, the US had aggressively conducted coca eradication in Bolivia. Coca eradication<\/a> continues even today. But not for long it seems.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Morales’ party, Movement to Socialism – scary name by the way – has its origin as a coca interest group. Given the US hostility towards coca farming, it won’t take a rocket scientist to predict what Bolivia’s foreign policy will look like.<\/p>\n

But what will happen to coca plantation? Will there be an expansion? If yes, would there be an increase of cocaine in the world market?<\/p>\n

I think yes.<\/p>\n

p\/s – Boris<\/a> tagged me but I’m being rather uncreative at the moment. But I’ve thought of one. I love old weird nationalistic songs. Currently, I can’t get Ca-na-da<\/em>, a song popular in 1967 celebrating 100 years of confederation, out of my head. The song could be heard at Expo 67<\/a>. Found it while looking for Malaysia Forever<\/em>, another nationalistic song sung in 1963 in Malaysian Singapore if I’m not mistaken.<\/p>\n

So, one down, four to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very soon, the Bush administration might have another source of headache. Bolivians (tag) have just elected a socialist and an ally of Venezuelan Chavez as President. Some have gone farther and declared that this is Washington’s nightmare. Bolivia Elects a President Who Supports Coca Farming By JUAN FORERO Published: December 19, 2005 LA PAZ, Bolivia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}