Them darn Yanks can not take the joking!

[razrif]

"Death to Yankees" senator loses US visa

1 hour, 25 minutes ago

LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - A Bolivian senator, a close ally of President Evo Morales known for her raucous chanting of "Long live coca, Death to the Yankees!," said on Wednesday the United States had canceled her entry visa

Leonilda Zurita, who is seen as one of the leftist president's closest confidantes, told local media U.S. consular officials had told her she was considered a terrorist, something she dubbed "an offense against Bolivian women."
Top woman!!!!

Zurita, from the region of Chapare -- the focus of U.S.-funded coca eradication programs -- was a prominent figure in the December election that returned Morales, who took power promising to develop his country's coca crop.

Zurita said she realized the visa had been canceled when she tried to travel to Miami to take part in a meeting organized by a Florida university. No one from the U.S. Embassy in La Paz could immediately be reached for comment.

The congresswoman is one of the most prominent advocates of expanding coca production, which has alarmed Washington as it struggles to control flow of its derivative cocaine into the United States.

She said recently: "We need, and we can, develop markets for our coca ... China is particularly important. The Chinese like herbs and they'll like our coca tea."
Read more about this rather special lady
http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1031.html

[-thetruth_]

lol
Anyone who does not wipe the USA bum is a terrorist or a bad cleaner

[voltaires_priest]

LOL, the most powerful country in the world terrified of a little lady in a straw hat



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[Boogski]

Originally Posted by voltaires_priest

LOL, the most powerful country in the world terrified of a little lady in a straw hat



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Kiss my smelly, hairy American arse!

You Brits have no room to talk. Didn't you guys expel a certain Islamist arsewipe for spewing similar shyte?

Seriously though, Volt. Don't you think coca growing in South America is cause for concern? How would you deal with it? Here's a quote from Razzy's link:

Coca growers say a single hectare of coca can bring in almost $4,500. A hectare of palmitos, an alternative crop, will only bring in about $250.

$4500?? Sorry, but that kind of cash isn't coming from a bunch of coca leaf chewing natives. That's drug trade money, pure and simple. This business of it being an ancient Bolivian tradition just doesn't flush.

What are your thoughts?

[voltaires_priest]

Oh come on, if they banned everyone who said that sort of stuff, there'd hardly be a student left on any campus in the USA, and as for the tourist trade...

The trouble is, it's not all drug money - it is possible to do things with coca crops other than make drugs.

What would I do? Bust up the cartels, arrest the leaders, and help the farmers use their crops to do other stuff.

If I was the US, I also might stop cosying up to right-wing political movements in South America, and thus hope to regain some credibility with the populace.



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