With the new year, Bolivia will produce the "Coca-Colla", a new soft drink energizing based on coca leaves, which incorporates the term" Collas, "nickname of the populations living close to the Andes. This was announced by the Bolivian government of Evo Morales, pointing out that coca leaves are used today for many legal products. The project is part of the government's strategy to increase the consumption of products based on coca leaf cultivation increased in the perspective of legal coca plants
The drink, as reported the association of coca growers, will be dark and will have a red label very similar to that of Coca-Cola. Will be produced by individuals in the province of Cochabamba and will be part of the process of industrialization of the coca growing support from the Bolivian government. It should be remembered that in Bolivia it is illegal drugs (cocaine) extracted from coca plants, but not illegal use of coca leaves. Indeed, in Bolivia are on the market several products based on coca leaves, such as tea, syrups, toothpastes, liqueurs, cakes and sweets. An Italian restaurant in La Paz offers even spaghetti coca, a mixture of wheat flour and coca leaves. Government authorities have also stated that the drink, perhaps, the end will have a different name, in fact, the name "Coca Colla" should open an immediate dispute with the most famous and historic Coca-Cola American.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, who was once a coca grower and habitual chewing of coca leaves, as indeed much of the population for years been fighting for legalization at the international level of the "sacred plant" Bolivia: 's Summer has officially requested to cancel the UN Convention on drugs two paragraphs regarding the chewing of coca leaves, believed to be proudly 'practice ancient ancestral indigenous Andean who can not and should be prohibited. " Morales has announced few days ago, a legislative reform that will allow an increase in the legal production of coca up to 20 thousand hectares (currently limited to 12 thousand), with the aim to include farmers in the Chapare coca, the social base of Evo Morales, in 'area of legal coca cultivation
Fonte: Beverfood news
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