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Mama Coca

• 1991 ----- color ----- 26 min ----- vhs
• Investigates coca as the peasants, farmers, and miners of Bolivia use it. Coca has been a part of the Aymaras Indians' life since the days of the Incas. It is part of their worship, their very way of life. They have been told, by their government, and that of the United States, that they must stop growing coca. The two governments, by means of the Agro-Yungas project, will replace coca crops with coffee. But the project is nothing but promises with little action. The Aymaras decry the use of their holy coca by outsiders to make cocaine, but what can they do?
• Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Latin America, Political Science: Latin American)

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