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1. Comunidad Tawantinsuyu : Foro Internacional de la Hoja de Coca
- www.comunidadtawantinsuyu.org
- org/coca .
- Una semana de Paz con la Coca.
- FORO INTERNACIONAL DE LA HOJA DE COCA.
- "El Uso Legal de la Hoja de Coca".
- Durante milenios nuestra Hoja Sagrada, la Hoja de Coca (Erythroxylum coca, Erythroxylum novogranatense) ha sido un recurso nutricional y saludable estimulante general para los pueblos andinos así como un elemento importante en la tradición, cultura e identidad de los mismos, de acuerdo a las evidencias arqueológicas e históricas que datan desde 3000 años antes de Cristo.
- La campaña psiquiátrica triunfante (OMS, 1952-1953) convalidada por la Convención Unica de Estupefacientes (Nueva York, 1961) y adoptada por el Gobierno del Perú, estigmatizó el uso de las Hojas de Coca como "adicción", "toxicomanía", "farmacodependencia", "uso indebido", desprestigiando a la costumbre ancestral.
- Lo absurdo de esta situación, que efectivamente impide el desarrollo, destruye las instituciones, y vuelve a la Hoja de Coca parte de un proceso de mercantilización maligna de todo el planeta, lleva muchas mentes inteligentes a proponer una legalización, que por cierto acabaría con los peores aspectos del régimen actual, y en especial con la lógica criminalizante, que afecta a tantos ciudadanos pobres, tanto en el campo como en la ciudad.
- La Hoja de Coca ingerida en forma natural, no produce toxicidad grave ni genera dependencia. ...
- Ha llegado la hora de plantear el tema del cultivo y aprovechamiento de la coca en sus verdaderos términos, para encontrar la fuerza de la tradición y con ella la coherencia perdida. La industrialización de la Hoja de Coca y la expansión de la demanda serían metas fáciles de alcanzar si al convencimiento académico le siguiera la decisión política, en auténtica defensa de nuestra soberanía, puesta en entredicho hasta ahora.
- Consideramos que es el momento oportuno para llevar a cabo el FORO INTERNACIONAL DE LA HOJA DE COCA, en Perú en Abril 2005, con el objetivo primordial de crear un mercado legítimo para esta sagrada y a la vez satanizada planta, enfocando el evento en el uso y aplicación actual de la Hoja de Coca en Salud y Nutrición, Cultura y Tradición, su impacto sobre el Medio Ambiente y los aspectos Legales que apoyan la injusticia actual.
2. In Peru, the Indians viewed coca as a natural dietary supplement ...
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- Jane's Brain Page Glossary Remedies Facts About Drinking Salvia divinorum Love Yage Coca Hemp impulse. ...
- Cocaine Addiction In Peru, the Indians viewed coca as a natural dietary supplement that supplied needed calories, proteins, carbohydrates, as well as vitamins and minerals. Coca contained less than 1% cocaine, a drug that alleviated hunger and fatigue for human chewers and the same time repelled most insects and herbivores. They claimed that chewing coca was natural whereas stuffing your nose with the white powder was an unnatural, disgusting, even dangerous, practice.
- Coca became a useful medicine, and as far as we know no Indian ever died or even had a serious medical problem from eating the leaves.
- Coca and Khat (to natives in northeast Africa and the Arabian peninsula Khat is the "flower of Paradise") stimulate the mind and ward off hunger and fatigue with almost no toxicity or abuse; the bitterness limits use to just so many leaves. ...
- Millions of Americans found coca tea acceptable during a three-year national experiment that started in 1983. The experiment was the brainchild of the Peruvian government's National Enterprise of Coca. This agency controls Peru's coca industry by licensing producers and providing coca leaves to native consumers as well as to international pharmaceutical companies. They were seeking new markets in order to channel the country's enormous coca production into legal products and away from the illegal drug market. It was decided to export the native mate de coca, to the United States. ...
- Jane's Brain Page Glossary Remedies Facts About Drinking Salvia divinorum Love Yage Coca Hemp impulse. ...
3. Erowid Coca Vault
- www.erowid.org
- Erythroxylum coca.
- GENERAL INFORMATION Coca Botany .
- Coca & Drug Tests .
- ARTICLES & WRITINGS Mama Coca: An Introduction to a Misunderstood Plant, by Murple .
- Coca: An Andean Cultural Tradition .
- RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES Index of Coca Journals Articles & Abstracts .
- RECIPES Coca Leaf Pudding .
- Coca Tea Positive .
- BOOKS History of Coca, The Divine Plant of the Incas, by W. ...
- The Coca Leaf and Cocaine Papers .
- Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality, by Sanabria and Leons.
- OFF-SITE COCA RESOURCES .
- PRIMARY RESOURCES Drug Policy Foundation : Coca-related Publications.
- The Consumer Union Report on Coca Leaves.
- Control of Coca Plants with Glyphosate.
- SECONDARY RESOURCES Mama Coca. ...
4. Coca Wine
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- Consumers' Guide (1900), their extraordinary Peruvian Wine of Coca.
- it has been effectually proven that in the same space of time more than double the amount of work could be undergone when Peruvian Wine of Coca was used, and positively no fatigue experienced. ...
- Coca-use only really took off in the West when it was blended with an alcoholic beverage. ...
- Launched in 1863, it was an extremely palatable coca wine developed by the Corsican entrepreneur, Angelo Mariani (1838-1914). ... Mariani himself wrote a book eulogising coca; and he gathered artefacts of, and material on, the coca-loving Incas. ... He also took up amateur horticulture and cultivated the coca plant in his garden. ...
- Coca wine made Mariani famous. ...
- He gave coca wine an official seal of approval by awarding Angelo Mariani a special gold medal. ...
- John Pemberton (1832-1888), the Atlanta-born creator of Coca Cola, was a keen pharmacist and coca-lover. ... "Pemberton's French wine coca" proved singularly popular with American consumers. ...
- Thus 'Pemberton's French wine cola' became 'Coca-Cola: the temperance drink'. ...
- Official approval of coca-based tonics began to wane towards the end of the century. ...
- In 1904, America's gathering moral panic about Drug Abuse led the manufacturers to remove the cocaine from Coca-Cola. It is now official Coca-Cola Company policy to deny the existence of cocaine in their orginal world-winning formula. The US Government later tried to compel the company to drop the name 'Coca-Cola' too. ...
5. Coca Cola Accused of Using Death Squads in Colombia
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- Coca-Cola Accused of Using Death Squads .
- District Court in Florida accuses the Coca-Cola Company, its Colombian subsidiary and business affiliates of using paramilitary death squads to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten union leaders at the multinational soft drink manufacturer's Colombian bottling plants. The suit was filed on July 20 by the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund on behalf of SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian union that represents workers at Coca-Cola's Colombian bottling plants; the estate of a murdered union leader; and five other unionists who worked for Coca-Cola and were threatened, kidnapped or tortured by paramilitaries. ...
- Coca-Cola's Colombian bottling plants was June 21 when Oscar Dario Soto Polo was gunned.
- But the complaint filed against Coca-Cola last week claims that the company does more than just benefit from paramilitary violence: it claims the company orchestrates it. ...
- " The plaintiffs are seeking compensation and an end to the human rights abuses committed against Coca-Cola's employees and union members. ...
- The suit claims that Coca-Cola controls all aspects of business conducted by its Colombian subsidiary Coca-Cola Colombia, as well as the operations of Panamerican Beverages, its Colombian subsidiary Panamco, and Bebidas y Alimentos. According to the complaint, Panamco and Bebidas y Alimentos exist solely for the purpose of bottling and distributing Coca-Cola products in Colombia. Both are Florida-based companies with 'bottling agreements' requiring them to abide by Coca-Cola's code of conduct regarding their operations and labor relations.
- " Union members claim that Mosquera often socialized with paramilitary fighters and even provided them with Coca-Cola products for their fiestas. ...
- On September 27, 1996, SINALTRAINAL sent a letter to the Colombian headquarters of both Bebidas y Alimentos and Coca-Cola Colombia informing them of Mosquera's threats against the union and requesting that they intervene to prevent further human rights abuses against employees and union leaders. ...
- According to the complaint, union officials at several other Coca-Cola bottling plants were also being threatened and harassed. ...
- The five union leaders, three of whom are plaintiffs in this case, were then imprisoned for six months based on charges brought by, according to official documents, "COCA COLA EMBOTELLADORA SANTANDER. ...
- When asked about abuses committed against union leaders at its Colombian bottling plants, Rafael Fernandez, a spokesman at Coca-Cola's headquarters in Atlanta, denied any wrongdoing regarding human rights violations in Colombia or anywhere else. He also stated, "Coca-Cola has a strict code of conduct that all its subsidiaries and businesses that work with Coca-Cola products have to adhere to. ...
- The president of the local SINALTRAINAL union in Barrancabermeja, Juan Carlos Galvis, says he received phone calls from paramilitaries threatening him with death if he didn't stop his union work and quit his job at Coca-Cola. The suit claims that paramilitary threats also appeared on the walls inside the plant, including one in June 2000 that stated, "Get Out Galvis From Coca-Cola, Signed AUC. ...
6. Narco News: Coca in the Cola
- www.narconews.com
- Coca in the Cola.
- The soft drink of Atlanta and the coca leaf of the Andes .
- This week, Bolivia’s undersecretary of Social Defense, Ernesto Justiniano, reported that his office had authorized the exportation of 350,000 bricks (about 159 tons) of coca leaf to the United States “for the manufacturing of the soft drink, Coca-Cola. ...
- Yes, read it well, kind readers, a high official of the government of President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada has authorized the sale of coca to make the most consumed soft drink in the world.
- Three years ago, the Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo reported that an affiliate of Coca-Cola in Brazil bought large quantities of coca leaf in Bolivia. However, the sale was never made directly: a chemical products laboratory (making flavors and other products), subsidiary of the multinational Monsanto, was in charge of buying and “processing” the coca leaf, that was then sold to the owners of the dark-colored soft drink as a mixture. Then, as now, Coca-Cola denied that it uses coca leaf to manufacture “the real thing. ...
- The operation began in this country when the Albo Export company, once it obtained the necessary licenses, began to warehouse coca leaf. ... government reports, the processing of the coca leaf includes (they swear) a “de-cocainization” of the plant. ...
- The Bolivian media, as a result of this report, has begun to speculate about the possible use of the coca leaf as an ingredient in Coca-Cola, although the U. ... Adriana Valladares, its representative in Mexico, says: “Coca-Cola does not buy coca leaf. ” It’s also been made public that the Albo Export, a company owned by Bolivian Fernando Alborta, has exported coca from Peru and Bolivia in recent years, and that between 1997 and 1999 it sent 340 tons of coca leaf to the United States.
- These purchase and processing operations are closely monitored in Bolivia by the General Coca Control and Auditing Board (Digeco, in its Spanish acronym) and in the United States, of course, by the DEA, which includes providing the warehouses with sophisticated alarm systems and storage caskets for this curious treasure in New Jersey. ...
- In the administrative resolutions of the Undersecretary of Social Defense 043/01 and 04/02 (the first was published by the previous president’s government last December 14, 2001), the collection of coca was authorized but it resulted that Albo Export was not able to complete the transaction mentioned above. ...
- Because, in Yungas, the traditional coca leaf cultivation region in Bolivia, there has not been much commercialization and the price has risen, Albo Export, in order to be able to complete its request and send its shipments in March 2003, has sought permission to store coca leaf in the Sacaba Market, in Cochabamba, in the Chapare region, in the only legal coca cultivation area in the country. But, as Undersecretary Justiniano says, this represents a very small portion of the coca grown in Bolivia, in Yungas or Chapare.
7. Eric J. Lyman, U.S. accused of creating blight killing coca plants and harming other crops
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- accused of creating blight killing coca plants and harming other crops.
- UCHIZA, Peru -- Standing on the edge of the dying 10-acre plot of land where he lives, coca farmer Felipe Vargas kicked the bone dry earth, raising a small cloud of dust from the land he said would produce enough to feed his family for months. ...
- Less than two years ago, Vargas' small farm an estimated 100,000 acres in the surrounding Huallaga Valley was lush and green with coca material used for cocaine. ...
- Critics charge that the coca killing fungus has also mutated and is killing many traditional crops, including bananas, cacao, coffee, corn, lemon grass, papaya and yucca. ...
- Whatever its origins, the situation is a new twist in the decades long standoff between coca eradication and survival for the farmers in this Amazon jungle valley, which is the size of New Jersey. ...
- Farmers are reluctant to abandon mature coca plants to make room for other crops that may be killed by the fungus before yielding fruit. ...
- "I may be able to harvest a small amount of coca from the land this year, and that will at least be a little help," said Vargas, 37, one of an estimated 2,500 coca farmers in the valley. ...
- "If I pulled up my last few coca plants to plant coffee or cacao, I wouldn't have anything to sell for two or three years or more, even if the new plants survived. ...
- Though the blight, known as seca seca (Spanish for "dry, dry") has helped curb coca production in the Huallaga Valley along with legal eradication efforts like alternative crop development the area remains the world's largest coca producing region. The valley produces about 125,000 tons of raw coca a year, one fifth of all coca produced worldwide. ...
- The coca is made into a compact coca paste and smuggled to Colombia to be made into cocaine. ...
- About 5 percent of coca production is legal in Peru, where the broad leaf has some industrial uses and is also central to many Andean ceremonies. A blight that attacks both legal coca and mainstream agricultural crops is a recipe for disaster in a region that has already been punished over the past decade by the Shining Path rebel movement and extreme poverty. ...
- Eloy Molpartido Ayola, president of the Huallaga coca growers association, said he has little doubt the United States is behind the spread of the fungus. ...
- government has said they want to eliminate coca in this area," Molpartido said. ...
- antinarcotics official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said stories blaming the United States for the blight were invented by coca farmers upset that Peru's anticoca laws are finally being enforced. ...
8. COCA - Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia
- www.coca.com.au
- Welcome to the COCA Web Site .
- COCA helps you stay informed of the latest developments in chiropractic, osteopathy and related areas. ...
- This site lists details of forthcoming chiropractic and osteopathic seminars in Australia and New Zealand, and contains continuing education information such as our newsletter, COCA News, and abstracts from our journal Australasian Chiropractic and Osteopathy. ...
- This runs parallel with COCA News. ...
- - COCA Executive .
- Home Contact COCA Member Benefits Member Search COCA News .
- All contents © COCA 1998.
- E-mail COCA at info@coca. ...
9. Narco News: Peruvian Drug Control Agency: Coca Cola Buys Coca Leaves
- www.narconews.com
- Peruvian Drug Control Agency: Coca Cola Buys Coca Leaves.
- Conflicts in Peru Over Coca Industrialization .
- We’re not here to talk about the Peruvian coca growers, at least not right now. ... This man, who swears that narco-trafficking is “the financial arm of terrorism,” is still talking and writing aimlessly, as we reported last March, when the great coca growers’ march arrived in Lima. ... But he has said a few very interesting things lately, such as confirming that the Coca Cola company does indeed buy coca leaves to produce its beverage… but have patience, as this story deserves to be told in detail.
- Ericsson not only knows how many acres of coca are cultivated and eradicated in Peru, but has also been meeting with soft drink companies, and even with the National Coca Company (Enaco) of Peru, on the issue of the possible industrialization of the ancient, sacred leaf. ...
- Despite his claims of a lack of interest, a bit more than a year ago, two new brands of soft drinks appeared in Peru: Vortex Coca Energy Drink and K-Drink. Produced by Peruvian companies, sold and marketed at unprecedented levels, the drinks are both based on coca. ... It wasn’t very clear which (coca has sixteen different alkaloids), but as this institution is in charge of enforcing the restrictions from the 1961 Vienna Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, Ericsson and DEVIDA began to worry.
- But Ericsson suspended their production licenses anyway, even negotiating in person the sale of raw coca to one of the companies. ... According to Ricardo Vega Llona, Ericsson’s predecessor at DEVIDA, the whole thing “seems strange and unreasonable, that we have this police pressure that seems to say ‘we’re going to go after anything that has to do with coca until it is all wiped out. ...
- Another clue, in that same article, comes from Clara Cogorno, general manager of the Amadeus Corporation (producer of the Vortex energy drink): “If the companies that legally work with coca disappear, the coca growers will have no one to sell to, no recourse to avoid the eradication of their crops. ...
- On December 10, Nils Ericsson published an opinion column in El Comercio, with the suggestive title of “Theories and fallacies about the coca leaf. ” In this text, aside from describing lethal experiments on rats, admitting that coca shampoo had given him dandruff, and claiming, as before, that narco-trafficking is the “financial arm of terrorism” (Bush II style, without providing a single source to back this up), well, he rhetorically linked coca with drugs, insisting that no country was going to buy products “that contain cocaine,” and that because of that “no such industry has a viable future. ...
- “For the manufacture of other products,” Don Nils continued, “beyond quality issues, the coca leaf is enormously expensive, prohibitively so. ” He was probably referring to the fact that, as eradication efforts have increased, the price of coca has risen in the last few months. ... by 500 percent, in fact, from 80 cents to four dollars for one kilo of dried coca leaf, as Ericsson himself explained last January 7.
10. Information About Coca Leaves
- www.a1b2c3.com
- Information About Coca Leaves.
- Coca is a densely-leafed plant native to the eastern slopes of the Andes. Erythroxylon coca is widely cultivated in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. ...
- The coca plant's cocaine alkaloid is also a pesticide. ...
- Insects that feed on coca overdose on their own octopamine.
- Typically, coca thrives in warm, moist valleys between 1500 and 6000 meters above sea level. ...
- Chewing coca also counters the symptoms of 'mountain sickness' and oxygen-deprivation. ...
- Chewing coca leaves with a dash of powdered lime is a nutritious and energizing way to induce healthy mood without causing an unsustainable high. ...
- Typically, the dried coca leaf is moistened with saliva. ...
- Shamans from some traditional Indian tribes still smoke coca leaves for magical purposes. ...
- Coca enables a shaman to cross 'the bridge of smoke', enter the world of spirits, and activate his magical powers. ...
- I read in Licit and Illicit Drugs that the people living in the Andes who chewed coca leaves to deal with the thin air had no trouble stopping use once they moved to a more airy clime.
- People interested in checking further into this might be interested in a couple of articles about coca leaf chewing:.
- The size of the quid of coca leaves that can be comfortably accommodated by a person is such that it is unlikely that coca chewing, as practiced for centuries in places like Macchu Piccu, presents the dangers that may result from the modern forms of recreational use.
- The Therapeutic Value of Coca in Contemporary Medicine. ...
- I have lived among coca-using Indians of the Andes and the Amazon basin in Columbia and Peru and have not seen any signs of physical deterioration attributable to the leaf. I have never seen an instance of coca toxicity. Nor have I observed physiological or psychological dependence on coca.
11. CokeWatch.org
- www.cokewatch.org
- Welcome to Cokewatch, a website designed to keep an eye on The Coca-Cola Company, one of the world’s most well-known corporations. ...
- You may be shocked to learn about the conditions under which Coca Cola products are produced and distributed.
- In Colombia, for example, union workers who bottle Coca Cola products have been kidnapped, tortured and murdered. The largest Coca Cola union in Colombia has asked for an international campaign against Coke to stop the violence against workers, which has included a half-dozen murders at one plant alone in the mid-1990’s. Reports of these crimes sparked a historic lawsuit against the Coca Cola Company and their Colombian bottler by the International Labor Rights Fund and the United Steelworkers of America on behalf of the Colombian union. ...
- Teamsters Strike Coca-Cola.
- Teamsters Fight to Protect Healthcare at Coca-Cola's Biggest Bottler.
- Campaign for Justice at Coca Cola Mission Statement: .
- Global corporations, such as The Coca-Cola Company, have a responsibility to ensure that the rights and safety of all workers who produce, package/bottle or distribute their products are protected. Just as they have a responsibility to ensure that the products they sell are safe, Coca Cola has a responsibility to ensure that the conditions under which their products are produced are safe. ...
- The Campaign for Justice at Coca-Cola is united in its commitment to these principles and calls on The Coca-Cola Company to: .
- Immediately stop the violence against Coca-Cola workers in Colombia, South America who have been subjected to extreme acts of intimidation including kidnapping, torture and murder; and .
- Negotiate with Coca Cola unions and representatives an enforceable global agreement that will ensure the rights and safety of all workers who produce, package/bottle, and distribute Coca Cola products worldwide. ...
- Join our Campaign for Justice at Coca Cola. ...
- org © 2005 Campaign for Justice at Coca Cola, .
12. Some Coca-Cola History
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- Some Coca-Cola History .
- Coca-cola was invented by a Dr. ... It was the doctors second drink with coca leaves and the kola nut as a basis. The doctors first coca leaf drink , Pemberton's French Wine Coca, was actually an immitation of Vin Mariani, a coca-wine drink invented by Angelo Mariani in 1883. Although there were several immitators of the French Coca-Wine, Pemberton's formula was superior. ...
- Venable somehow disposed of his portion of Coca-cola twice. During some time in 1887, he gave his share of Coca-cola to Joseph Jacobs, owner of Jacobs' Pharmacy. ...
- At this point the formula of Coca-cola was officially owned by Pemberton, Walker and Dozier, but several others had interest in it. ...
- With the exeception of the Walker, Candler & Company ownership, Asa Candler had legal rights to Coca-Cola. ... By the turn of the century Candler would become one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta and Coca-Cola would become the most popular soft drink in America. ...
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