Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that his government will come out with a carbonated drink called “Coca Colla.” Yes, it will be made from coca leaves.
Billed as an energy drink, it will appear slightly similar to Coca Cola in packaging with a red label and black swoosh. Morales hopes to produce the drink in a joint venture with a private company.
Bolivia’s new constitution recognizes coca as a “cultural heritage, a natural and renewable resource of biodiversity in Bolivia and a factor of social cohesion.”
Morales is known to regularly chew on coca leaves, even when he appears at international conferences around the world.
The drink is part of a campaign to expand coca production from 12,000 hectares to 20,000.
How will the better known Coca Cola respond? The trademark infringement will be interesting. The “Colla” is not just a play off the better known soft drink’s name, but a name that many indigenous Bolivians are known by.
It’s the Real Thing Evo. Go man. That’ll piss off some plutocrats in a major way.
The original Coca Cola was actually made with cocaine, as everyone already knows. I wonder if they still have the patent, although by now it should have expired.
Viva Evo, viva Chavez, both are the pause that refreshes…as long as we do not provoke another war, this time on our doorstep.
Imagine that, collecting the collective ire of moslems and latino populations…we must be hungry for enemies…see venezuelanalysis.com.
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very original, not.
maybe should have called it Coca Bola
maybe not
Shameless attempt to boost tourism. Where oh where is Klaus Barbie when you need him? (justkidding)
Whatever reasoning is behind this I applaud. It’s about time other countries begin to excersize thier rights as soveriegn nations and the FREEDOM to do as they wish within thier own borders. It’s THIER country, not ours.
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sarah palin and the entire GOP are such retarded idiots… bush and cock cheney included. palin is a whore and thats giving her some credit.
The ORIGINAL SIN???!!!!…. Let the people have what they want, when and where ever they want to…..
If it is coka, pepsi, fanta, sprite, bomba colla, shit cola or nerd cola it is still the same and old way of making money. Who is the bandid??? and is there is a bandid who is the hero????