This cartoon appeared yesterday in La Razon, where we see current president and vice-president… in Christmas attires.. the vice is saying “what our good kids ask the most is to legalize more coca…”

Last week the UN office in charge of controlling coca reduction, drug control came to Bolivia. Current president wanted to have the coca chewing be accepted, we need to remember that current Bolivian government step aside of an international accord and now wants to step in, provided the international community accepts the chewing, which was supposed to be abolished some years ago. Well, such posture was rejected and this government made us all look like amateurs in the international diplomatic arena.

The coca growers in the Chapare try to grow more coca, the growers in Yungas, where all the coca leafs for chewing and other traditional uses, come from, of course do not like nor accept such demand. It is vox populi that the coca from Chapare goes directly to the illicit production of cocaine.