{"id":115,"date":"2008-04-28T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-07-23T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T14:18:17","slug":"bolivia-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/bolivia-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks God for Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If not &#8230;<br \/>\nWe wouldn&#8217;t have any favela.<br \/>\nWe wouldn&#8217;t have any cultural production from the favela.<br \/>\n[display_podcast]<br \/>\nIt is an ironic shortfilm on cocaine and Rio&#8217;s urbanism. You know &#8220;she don&#8217;t lie, she don&#8217;t lie &#8230; cocaine&#8221; (J.J. Cale in 1975) On wikipedia you get more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cocaine_(song)\">song &#8216;cocaine&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>idea and production by dd.r and julakim.<br \/>\npostproduction and music by julakim.<br \/>\nThe format is wmv because of 16:9, somehow this was difficult to achieve. So check for yourselfes while watching it. If you encounter problems you can download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versiontracker.com\/dyn\/moreinfo\/macosx\/13112\">media player for mac <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flip4mac.com\/download.htm\">flip4mac<\/a>. Please tell me if this works fine for you, since I think the quality is better with .wmv than with .m4v and even smaller.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remark from Bolivia:<\/strong><br \/>\nBolivia&#8217;s new president Evo Morales (a former coca farmer) plans to use government aid to promote the sale of coca products.<br \/>\n&#8220;Coca s\u00ed, Coca\u00edna no&#8221; &#8212; yes to coca, no to cocaine &#8212; was one of Morales&#8217; campaign slogans.<br \/>\nThe coca plant is a basis for living. With his new program he aims to disassociate the plant that provides the substance used to make cocaine from the drug stigma. In the Andes, the coca plant is &#8216;only&#8217; a medicine and this already for thousands of years (the use goes back to the Incas).<br \/>\nWith community control the coca farmers are trying to avoid misuse of their holy plant. I think it is a good idea to make a clean self-control, but also I believe that cocaine makes some people very rich and they will always find their way around.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/learningenglish\/newsenglish\/witn\/2007\/03\/070316_coca.shtml\">They even want Coca-Cola Company to change their name.<\/a><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nSome background information on the case, you can find here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/ted\/bolcoca.htm\">Bolivia Coca Trade (BOLCOCA)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Posts on Drugs<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/dreams-results\/\">Dreams and Results<\/a>, I am interviewing VivaRio&#8217;s executive director about their program in a favela.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/personal-message\/\">personal message<\/a>, I am talking about the 2 districts Lapa and Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ironic shortfilm on cocaine and its relation to the favela. 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