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Forero Claims to Drink the Stuff

Submitted June 10, 2004 - 12:04 pm by Al Giordano
According to one source, Forero, when trying to convince sources who have wisely shunned him in recent years to speak with him, volunteers, as part of his schtick, that when in the Andes he drinks coca tea and he "loves" it.

I don't doubt it (although that makes his Embassy-spun coverage against the coca growers themselves from Colombia to Peru to Bolivia even more loathesome in its knowing falsehood and hypocrisy). I mean, even Pope John Paul II, when he went to Bolivia, drank the tea in public and praised its sacred, god-given, powers.

In the Andes, most wealthy households and restaurants serve coca tea. They may hate the people who grow it, for the "crime" of not wanting to be like them, but they're happy to enjoy the fruits of the labor of others.

But this is par for the course: To Forero, the campesino who grows the coca leaf doesn't become a human being until he starts a soft-drink company.

In any case, did you know that reporters at the New York Times have to take urine tests to prove they are not sniffing cocaine? Drinking coca tea, or soft-drink, sounds like an excellent excuse to cry "false positive" in case the bladder cops invade the cubicle at an inconvenient moment, no? Abbie Hoffman would have loved that one.

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