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7 Surprising Facts About the Coca Plant You Need to Know
The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and ...
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The plants of Peru
In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...
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Cola’s complicated roots
How did a nut that’s been prized across West Africa for centuries come to be integral in the development of the world’s most ubiquitous soft drink? The story is a surprising mix of colonialism, ...
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Gardening pro shares three ways to use dead leaves in the garden instead of throwing them away: 'That's brilliant'
Nature's byproducts have more uses than we may think. Even fallen leaves can work wonders for your garden. TikTok user Nettles and Petals (@nettlesandpetals) showed viewers three ways to use leaves to ...
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Coca-Cola recall full list as Food Standards Agency issues update
The Food Standards Agency has issued an urgent update after Coca-Cola recalled a number of drinks which may be contaminated with the chemical chlorate. Coca-Cola is taking the precautionary step ...
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Costco switching from Pepsi to Coca-Cola products
Costco’s CEO announced that the company is bringing back Coca-Cola products, replacing Pepsi. For decades, Coke was a centerpiece at Costco food courts, but the company switched to Pepsi in 2013.
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Cocaine Outpaces Oil as Colombia's Most Valuable Export
The bushy shrub’s alkaloid-rich leaves, long chewed by Indigenous ... s largest suppliers of the drug, relied upon coca paste imported from Bolivia and Peru to manufacture the cocaine they ...
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Rooted in Colonialism, Coca Prohibition Could Be Nearing Its End
“This is the coca leaf,” Bolivia’s representative to the UN, Diego Pary, said in November at the UN in New York, holding one aloft from a pile in front of him, just like former president Evo Morales ...
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Bus crash in southern Bolivia leaves 19 dead
Nineteen people, including two children, were killed in southern Bolivia on Sunday when a speeding bus crashed and overturned in mountainous Potosi department, the police said. The bus was traveling ...
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Bus crash in southern Bolivia leaves 19 dead
La Paz: Nineteen people, including two children, were killed in southern Bolivia on Sunday when a speeding bus crashed and overturned in mountainous Potosi department, the police said. The bus was ...
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Bolivia’s political chaos signals an economic meltdown
This vacuum leaves Bolivia’s political landscape polarized with no resolution in sight. As the August 17 election approaches, the power struggle threatens to deepen the country’s political and social ...