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Join the Bristol Bolivia Solidarity Group in a symbolic football match, Saturday 3 May 2008
The BBC recently reported a football match in La Paz involving Evo Morales and Diego Maradona. Bristol Bolivia Solidarity Campaign has decided to use this to highlight what is happening under Bolivia’s progressive government and overwhelmingly underreported.We will be holding a symbolic football match on College Green on Saturday 3 May from 12noon until 2pm, to which representatives of the BBC have been invited.
The football match will be interspersed with information and readings about Bolivia.
For further information contact: bristol.boliviasolidarity@yahoo.co.uk
Coca Is NOT Cocaine!
The Fans were on the up and up –kicked Brazil from the World Cup.
For the first time in 40 years
the Stadium rocked to Bolivian cheers.
Some players relaxed with cups of tea
made from coca and called mate.
A problem arose – you’ve guessed –
the leading player failed the drug test.
He said “I drank coca before the game
but coca is not cocaine”.
This had happened many times before
and the Fans weren’t taking it any more.
50,000 to the next match came
with caps, shirt, placards
the same message to proclaim
coca is not cocaine..
At the airport V.I.P.S
are filmed sipping coca teas.
To the Pope and the Queen of Spain
coca is not cocaine.
Fidel Castro gave a knowing wink
from his hotel as he sipped his drink.
The crowd cheered as he made it plain
coca is not cocaine.
The International Drug Trade: Finding the West Country Connection was the title of a conference organized by Bristol University and the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) in 1993. This poem is based on the contribution of a Bolivian journalist who told the football story to illustrate the widespread use of coca and the growing influence of Andean culture.