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In reply to the discussion: BTW...Remember that Evo Morales is the same crazy nut that said the U.S.A. poisoned Hugo Chavez [View all]okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)To understand why Evo Morales has come within a llama's hair of being President of Bolivia and why his formidable political power is giving U.S. officials fits pay attention when he and his top advisers open their mouths. That is, see what they're chewing: coca leaves, treasured by Andean Indians like Morales as a sacred tonic and as their most lucrative cash crop but better known to Americans as the raw material of cocaine
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Morales is/was a coca farmer and hates the US for the war on drugs. He also hated that the government was removing coca crops. Correa is the same way. His father was caught smuggling drugs and did time in a US prison. Correa hates the US for that.