Coca In Bolivia
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Publicado: 23 de enero de 2013
COCA IN BOLIVIA
INTRODUCTION
Cultures of the coca plant are from indigenous dynasties times in regions where the Incas ruled. The use of the leaves of this plant for medicinal purposes was precisely as analgesics.
The leaf is chewed and the effects that cause the properties of the plant are considered ancestral and supernatural. The Indians believe that chewing the leaves of the cocaplant is not a habit but an addiction.
In 1961 in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was banned coca except medical or scientific purposes. Such a convention is ranked the coca leaf as a substance similar to Heroine and cocaine, dangerous drugs of recreational use. The convention dictate that within 25 years is prohibited from chewing cocaine and based this decision on a study by a UNrepresentative in Peru for a while I analyze the effects of chewing the leaf in the Indians and found that their were negative effects on health.
Indigenous peoples of Peru and Bolivia qualified to decisions of this convention as an attack on their ancestral beliefs as racist and misleading because the investigations were made from a standpoint purely scientific but not cold and took into accountcultural factors.
Today in Bolivia and Peru allowed the harvest of cocaine plants indigenous sectors that see a living in this business for a living. Precisely these countries are the world's largest producers of cocaine, the drug that is why the legal aspect on coca cultivation is criticized and pressured to ban cultivation.
DEVELOPMENT
Coca Leaf in Bolivia
At present the cultivation ofcoca in Bolivia is legal, President Evo Morales protects this activity and struggle with criticism from the international community that put Bolivia as the second largest producer of cocaine.
The legality of this activity is based on ethnic and social values, which are protected by the current Bolivian government. The cultivation of coca has about 5000 years of history; there arearchaeological findings that demonstrate the use of the sheet in nomadic communities, the first social organizations in the history of mankind.
American Indians considered the coca leaf as sacred, almost most ancient cultures chewed coca leaves, even in antiquity was chewing things of great Inca rulers, is chewing the coca leaf was a luxury activity.
The rise of cocaine use in antiquity is given afterthe Spanish conquest. At that time the Latin American region, rich in flora and fauna, became major producer of plants worldwide. The work had to meet the indigenous conquered was extremely hard but they succeeded thanks to the effects of chewing coca. King Ludwig II discovered that the natives worked more and better chewing coca therefore saw that this activity was productive and directconsumption.
After a few years this activity was conquered knowing in other sectors and the area known, as the silver of Potosí in Bolivia was the main supplier of coca plant at the time.
Coca in social
For regions where they have lived since ancient cultures to the present day as the Quichua and Aymara in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina regions of chewing coca is a demonstration oftheir own identity, their culture. For these people chew the leaf represents good intentions, education and above all happiness. There is a celebration where coca leaves missing, is a tradition that can not be erased in the villages through laws.
Coca and religion
Coca Chewing born as an incentive for workers, thereby surrendering more hours. But over the years and with the independence ofenslaved peoples, the cocaine was consumed by initiative of the people who considered this plant for their social, spiritual and beliefs. Chewing coca was passed from generation to generation and became spiritual issue for people, but their religion was based on pagan symbols, the culture of the indigenous considers the coca leaf as sacred.
Coca cultivation
In Bolivia, coca cultivation...
INTRODUCTION
Cultures of the coca plant are from indigenous dynasties times in regions where the Incas ruled. The use of the leaves of this plant for medicinal purposes was precisely as analgesics.
The leaf is chewed and the effects that cause the properties of the plant are considered ancestral and supernatural. The Indians believe that chewing the leaves of the cocaplant is not a habit but an addiction.
In 1961 in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was banned coca except medical or scientific purposes. Such a convention is ranked the coca leaf as a substance similar to Heroine and cocaine, dangerous drugs of recreational use. The convention dictate that within 25 years is prohibited from chewing cocaine and based this decision on a study by a UNrepresentative in Peru for a while I analyze the effects of chewing the leaf in the Indians and found that their were negative effects on health.
Indigenous peoples of Peru and Bolivia qualified to decisions of this convention as an attack on their ancestral beliefs as racist and misleading because the investigations were made from a standpoint purely scientific but not cold and took into accountcultural factors.
Today in Bolivia and Peru allowed the harvest of cocaine plants indigenous sectors that see a living in this business for a living. Precisely these countries are the world's largest producers of cocaine, the drug that is why the legal aspect on coca cultivation is criticized and pressured to ban cultivation.
DEVELOPMENT
Coca Leaf in Bolivia
At present the cultivation ofcoca in Bolivia is legal, President Evo Morales protects this activity and struggle with criticism from the international community that put Bolivia as the second largest producer of cocaine.
The legality of this activity is based on ethnic and social values, which are protected by the current Bolivian government. The cultivation of coca has about 5000 years of history; there arearchaeological findings that demonstrate the use of the sheet in nomadic communities, the first social organizations in the history of mankind.
American Indians considered the coca leaf as sacred, almost most ancient cultures chewed coca leaves, even in antiquity was chewing things of great Inca rulers, is chewing the coca leaf was a luxury activity.
The rise of cocaine use in antiquity is given afterthe Spanish conquest. At that time the Latin American region, rich in flora and fauna, became major producer of plants worldwide. The work had to meet the indigenous conquered was extremely hard but they succeeded thanks to the effects of chewing coca. King Ludwig II discovered that the natives worked more and better chewing coca therefore saw that this activity was productive and directconsumption.
After a few years this activity was conquered knowing in other sectors and the area known, as the silver of Potosí in Bolivia was the main supplier of coca plant at the time.
Coca in social
For regions where they have lived since ancient cultures to the present day as the Quichua and Aymara in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina regions of chewing coca is a demonstration oftheir own identity, their culture. For these people chew the leaf represents good intentions, education and above all happiness. There is a celebration where coca leaves missing, is a tradition that can not be erased in the villages through laws.
Coca and religion
Coca Chewing born as an incentive for workers, thereby surrendering more hours. But over the years and with the independence ofenslaved peoples, the cocaine was consumed by initiative of the people who considered this plant for their social, spiritual and beliefs. Chewing coca was passed from generation to generation and became spiritual issue for people, but their religion was based on pagan symbols, the culture of the indigenous considers the coca leaf as sacred.
Coca cultivation
In Bolivia, coca cultivation...
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