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Condolezza playing Charango

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Topic: Condolezza playing Charango
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Subject: Condolezza playing Charango
Date Posted: 18-Mar-2007 at 00:59
 
 
Sometimes, ancient history of the Americas come back with fun. This is a curious event that happened a time ago, when Evo Morales gave Condolezza Rice a Charango (Andes' ukelele) decorated with coca leaves.
 
Coca is the sacred plant of the Andes since thousand of years ago. Someone should inform of it the U.S. government LOL
 
The fact is that, misteriously, the charango dissapeared shortly after, and the press was looking for its location, somewhere in the American embassy on Chile, for more than a month.
 
The new follows,
 
Pinguin
 

VALPARAISO, Chile - Cooperation against illegal drugs was one theme of a cordial first meeting between the top American diplomat and Bolivia's new president, but President Evo Morales used the session to send another message.

Morales gave Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a traditional Bolivian Indian musical instrument called a charango that resembles a ukulele and is usually made from animal hide.

This one, however, was covered with coca leaves.

Coca is the raw material for cocaine but also has traditional uses in Bolivia. The gift was a reminder that coca and coca farming are legal there.

Rice gamely strummed the instrument for a moment. It's not clear whether she can legally bring it into the United States.

Morales, who took office in January, led the often-violent struggle against U.S.-backed coca eradication efforts over the past decade and has promised to retool Bolivian coca policy.

He has vowed his goal will be "zero cocaine," not "zero coca."

Rice and Morales were in Chile for the historic inauguration of its first female president, Michelle Bachelet.

 



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