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President of Bolivia chews Coca leaf at UN in Vienna Pt 2

President of Bolivia, Evo Morales holds up a coca leaf, puts it in his mouth and chews. "Am I a drug Addict?

Shoveling Water: War on drugs, War on people

This short film is produced by Witness for Peace. It considers the human and environmental costs of the disastrous ongoing efforts to eradicate coca production in Colombia using aerial fumigation. The film features occasional Transform blogger Sanho Tree, a drug policy analyst from the Washington based Institute for Policy Studies

South America: Fumigation footage

This raw unedited footage shows fumigation planes flying low over farms near the Ecuadorian border. They were trailed by clouds of herbicide, which kills crops of coffee, yucca, peanuts and bananas.

The United States-financed spraying is supposed to kill illegal coca bushes, the base ingredient for making cocaine. But as one farmer said, "They fumigated the whole land, corn, rice, bananas, pineapples and forage...the three animals we had, cows and calves, died three weeks later."

President of Bolivia chews Coca leaf at UN in Vienna Pt 1

President of Bolivia, Evo Morales holds up a coca leaf, puts it in his mouth and chews. "Am I a drug Addict? Are you going to arrest me?".

During his address in Vienna, March 11 2009, he urged the CND to support the decriminalization of coca production and the removal of coca from the UN list of banned substances, because the raw ingredient for cocaine in itself is "not a drug" but a traditional medicine.

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