Bolivie, au cœur du marché sacré de la coca

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00:29my coquita, which I brought from Coroico, from Chacopata Nogalani, in the province of Noriungas.

00:39For us, producers, the coca means a sacred leaf.

00:46The coca gives us life.

00:48The coca gives us everything.

00:50For us, our young people study.

00:55We have a techo, a food.

01:00For us, the coca means a lot.

01:03It's our daily economic sustento.

01:09Since the ancestors, even before C.C.,

01:15the coca was cultivated in the kingdom of Paz.

01:18So, we still keep the image in the kingdom of Paz.

01:23We have a tradition of cultivating the coca.

01:26And, we always keep living with the coca.

01:29And our parents keep the coca cultivating.

01:40The coca is not like this.

01:43We have a social control in the communities,

01:46which is called the communal order.

01:48We take with that our taxis.

01:50If I produce five multis, five taxis of coca,

01:53then, those five taxis have to come to here,

01:56with a communal order.

01:57And, we pass through the control of the government

02:00that there is in the Cinco.

02:01And, of the same way, it comes to the interior of the country.

02:04It is extremely controlled by the same government

02:07and by the same socio-productor.

02:10The Coca is a value of the coca.

02:11And, of course, the coca is a value of the coca.

02:15And, of course, the coca is a value of the coca.

02:16This coca is valued, sometimes they are satanized by other issues that perhaps

02:31they may not have seen well in their natural state.

02:36They are made in infusions like mate, also other products like the coca, the harina de coca, the refresco de coca, the torta de coca

02:49and many more products that are made.

02:52I hope this government can help us and incentivize the producers to make them the product

03:00and so maybe they can export, not only here in Bolivia but also at the international level.

03:05I hope this will be a little bit more.

03:06Thank you very much.

03:07Thank you very much.

03:08Thank you very much.