Hello TRAKKER readers. This will be my first contribution on this type of issue. Whether angel or crook, I’m positing that almost every citizen of every country has heard of the social phenomenon that is COCAINE. AND the manufacturing of and trafficking in it, which has negatively affected the youth of so many societies.
Individuals, families, communities, governments, countries and their leaders have had to contend with the ORGANISED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, THE DESTRUCTION OF YOUTH AND LIVES THE AMERICAN MARKETS AND “WAR” AGAINST COKE, AND YES, THE WEALTHY ENRICHMENT OF “BARONS” AND THEIR EMPLOYEES.
All this developed from the planting, rearing and harvesting of a simple, staple, innocent plant. The coca plant. And that’s where this first contribution on this issue will begin.
THE COCA, THE NEED, THE WICKED
If you do just preliminary research, you’ll find that the native peoples of most of South America – PERU, CHILE, VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA, BOLIVIA, ECUADOR, etc, etc – discovered that the leaves of the COCA plant, found in abundance in the valleys of their countries, gave them warmth, stimulation and energy to live and work in those cold Andean Mountain regions. THEY CHEWED THE LEAVES FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL THERAPIES AND PHYSICAL STRENGTH. They were breaking no (non-existent) laws!
The COCA leaf (ERYTH-ROXY-LON COCA) is a plant that contains vital nutrients as well as numerous alkaloids. One of the alkaloids was later found to be cocaine, in its rawest, botanical forms. For thousands of years South American Native peoples chewed coca. Then, as in Peru and Bolivia, they planted and farmed the crop for resale. Soon the South Americans were making TEAS for normal, public consumption. (Wines were later made by the Europeans)
No wonder to this day BOLIVIA’S FIRST INDIGENOUS (AMERINDIAN) PRESIDENT, EVO MORALES, has told the Americans that coca will continue to be planted. He knows the HISTORY too: that it was the Spanish and other Europeans who, on discovering the wonderful properties of the coca leaf, transformed it into all forms of the cocaine drug which had to be deemed illegal in many jurisdictions.
We’ll return to this fascinating subject soon, and just how Guyana was made into a major trans-shipment point. And the type of Guyanese who have made a once-innocent, peaceful country, such a place. Stay tuned.
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