La coca para un indio Aymará

La coca nunca fue problema, hasta que llegaron los gringos. Difícil de creer
para los que no conocen a nuestrra gente.
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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.

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