South American President Chews Coca At United Nations Meeting
Evo Morales isn’t afraid to practice what he preaches. The Bolivian president, an outspoken proponent of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, brought a baggie with him to a United Nations meeting in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday and chewed away in front of the assembled ministers.
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President Morales was speaking at a meeting of the U.N. Committee on Narcotic Drugs, which is drafting a ten year drug strategy and taking input from non governmental organizations. Morales urged the delegation, said Krane, who took notes, to correct the “historical mistake” that had banned coca.