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From flours and teas to distillates, beers and wines, the projects involving this ingredient keep growing in Latin America

By Laia Mataix Gomez Bogota, Jan 26 (EFE).- A member of the Nasa indigenous community in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca, where coca fields spread over thousands of hectares, is fighting back against the “demonization” of that ancient crop by selling a range of products, including a coca-derived beer. Although associated primarily with cocaine …

BOGOTA, Feb 20 — Indigenous Colombians are going head to head with the world’s biggest soft drink company over the commercial use of the word “coca” — the name of an indigenous South American plant. Representatives of the Nasa and Embera Chami tribes are threatening to ban the sale of...

Indigenous Colombians are going head to head with the world's biggest soft drink company over the commercial use of the word "coca" -- the name of an indigenous South American plant.

For centuries, indigenous peoples in Colombia, Peru and elsewhere on the continent have chewed the coca leaf and defended it as part of their cultural heritage.