01 August, 2012
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A woman stands on a street corner in Oruro,
a Bolivian mining town in the Andes Mountains
In a symbolic rejection of U.S. capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the Mayan calendar.
This will mark the end of capitalism and usher in a new era of equality, the Bolivian govt says.
“December 21 of 2012 will be the end of egoism and division. December 21 should be the end of Coca-Cola,” Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca decreed, with bombast worthy of a viral marketing campaign.
The coming ‘end’ of the Mayan lunar calendar on December 21 of this year has sparked widespread doomsaying of an impending apocalypse.
But Choquehuanca argued differently, claiming it will be the end of days for capitalism, not the planet.
“The planets will align for the first time in 26,000 years and this is the end of capitalism and the beginning of communitarianism,” said Choquehuanca as quoted by Venezuelan newspaper El Periodiquito.
The minister encouraged the people of Bolivia to drink Mocochinche, a peach-flavored soft drink, as an alternative to Coca-Cola.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez followed suit, encouraging his country to ditch the American beverage for fruit juice produced in Venezuela.
McFailure
Last year, Bolivia became the second Latin American country not to have a single McDonald’s.
The fast food giant finally gave up on Bolivia after being unable to turn a profit in the country for over a decade.
Following this failure, the monolithic multinational released a documentary titled ‘Why McDonald’s failed in Bolivia.’ Referencing surveys, sociologists, nutritionists and historians, the company came to the conclusion it was not their food that was the issue, but a culturally driven boycott.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has a reputation for controversial policies similar to the Coca-Cola ban.
Morales pledged last month to legalize the consumption of coca leaves, one of the main ingredients of cocaine.
“Neither the U.S. nor capitalist countries have a good reason to maintain the ban on coca leaf consumption,” said Morales.
The coca leaf was declared an illegal narcotic by the UN in 1961, along with cocaine, opium and morphine.
The consumption of coca leaves is a centuries-old tradition in Bolivia, strongly rooted in the beliefs of various indigenous groups.
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Coca cola won't be around much longer...let us sit back and be at peace.
After they throw out coke some one else will make the same thing to catch the market and get rich-duh-unless the gov thinks it can create gov owned soda pop companies in which case the elite in the gov will pay themselves handsomely and the peasants will get an additional 50 cents in their food stamps monthly-same in all collective govs
That's probably the problem of solving the problem: escaping to cope.
I believe as a collective, humanity is very narcissistic, self indulged, psychotic, and suicidal. people seem to love what's bad for them.
so this is how the world will end... countries all over the world start expelling coca-cola and all the addictive junk food that are poison for our bodies, and there will begin to be Zombie outbreaks as people become enraged and frenzied from the Withdrawal...
Thanks for the post...I shared this
There is nothing wrong with Capitalism per say. It is still a good system. The nightmare is when the Corporations have control of the regulators, government officials and the legislative and judicial system through bribes.
Only one question. If you have a higher IQ than me and stuggled in school to succeed, have created some thing good that people need and want, work longer hours to make and sell that thing, should I, as a stranger who doesn't work for you and have never met you, receive largess from your toil? We all know a public safety net is essential so I'm not talking about people with really bad karma who need assistance-should I, healthy and able receive some part of your largess? If so I know a hill where two thieves and another well known personage were crucified-two for thievery the other for preaching-to me help where needed-martydom can be martyr-dum