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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Kimberly on January 20, 2008, 10:47:05 AM
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VENEZUELA
Chávez says he chews coca daily
Analysts said Chávez's comments before National Assembly amounted to a dangerous endorsement and might be an admission of an illegal act.
BY CASTO OCANDO
El Nuevo Herald
Venezuela's controversial President Hugo Chávez has revealed that he regularly consumes coca -- the source of cocaine -- raising questions about the legality of his actions.
Chávez's comments on coca initially went almost unnoticed, coming amid a four-hour speech to the National Assembly during which he made international headlines by calling on other countries to stop branding two leftist Colombian guerrilla groups as terrorists and instead recognize them as ``armies.''
''I chew coca every day in the morning . . . and look how I am,'' he is seen saying on a video of the speech, as he shows his biceps to the audience.
Chávez, who does not drink alcohol, added that just as Fidel Castro ''sends me Coppelia ice cream and a lot of other things that regularly reach me from Havana,'' Bolivian President Evo Morales ``sends me coca paste . . . I recommend it to you.''
It was not clear what Chávez meant. Indigenous Bolivians and Peruvians can legally chew coca leaves as a mild stimulant and to kill hunger. But coca paste is a semi-refined product -- between leaves and cocaine -- considered highly addictive and often smoked as basuco or pitillo.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/386592.html (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/386592.html)
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So Chavez's a cokehead. I guess that explains where most of his ideas come from. :rofl:
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''I chew coca every day in the morning . . . and look how I am,'' he is seen saying on a video of the speech, as he shows his biceps to the audience.
Yep. Explains a lot of things.
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:mental:
Chavez is a stereotypical dictator... "president for life" ninja, puh leeze :loser:
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The stupid bastard just admitted he is addicted to cocaine (or the alkaloid known as "methylbenzoylecgonine").
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No wonder Sean Penn likes him so much...
(http://www.indium.com/_images/0104/jeff_spicoli.jpg)
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in south america, the coca leaf is used to make tea that people drink all the time. It is nothing out of the ordinary. Don't know about the paste, though.
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I always knew he was a crackhead.
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I always knew he was a crackhead.
Him and Dr Nuts would make a pair that would beat a full house (that's poker lingo).
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Chávez says he chews caca daily
Fixed.
(sorry, I know it's juvenile. It's the flu talking. :-) )
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the leaves don't concern me at all. I drank Coca tea in Peru and chewed the leaves. It does NOT make you high. It helps with the altitude quite a bit. Now the paste? That concerns me. It sounds a bit more like cocaine. Of course this is what he admits to. No telling what he does behind closed doors.
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Chávez says he chews caca daily
Fixed.
(sorry, I know it's juvenile. It's the flu talking. :-) )
ROFL! :rofl:
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Gee, color me all shocked to pieces.
:whatever: