玻利维亚总统签署法律 合法种植古柯的土地面积翻倍
时间：2019-01-02 作者：英语课 分类：2017年VOA慢速英语(三)月
Bolivians have a new law that nearly doubles the amount of land where coca plants can be legally grown.
President Evo Morales signed the measure into law on Wednesday. “We want to guarantee coca supplies for life,” he said.
The measure raises the limit of coca crops Bolivian farmers can plant, from 12,000 hectares to 22,000 hectares.
Morales is a former coca farmer. He still leads a coalition 1 of coca farmers in Bolivia’s Chapare area.
Coca is the main ingredient in the drug cocaine 2.
The leaves of the coca plant have been used for many years in South America’s Andes Mountains in other ways. Coca can act like a stimulant 3. People also use it to reduce feelings of hunger and to ease pain and tiredness.
When served as a drink, coca can prevent air sickness.
But it is best known as the main ingredient in a dangerous drug.
United States Drug Enforcement agents were working in Bolivia until Morales expelled them in 2008. He accused them of spying on him and helping 4 the country’s opposition 5.
“The United States just said that Bolivia and Venezuela failed in a demonstrable way in the war against drugs, Morales said during his speech Wednesday. “But the only things that can be demonstrated is that neither Bolivia or Venezuela can submit.”
Opposition lawmakers are denouncing the new coca law. They say it will increase cocaine production and increase groups of drug traffickers.
Some labor 6 unions representing coca farmers also oppose the law. They say the crop grown in the Chapare area is not as good as that grown in what they call the “traditional regions.” They say it would instead be used in cocaine.
Words in This Story
stimulant –n. a substance that makes people feel more energetic
submit –v. to do something without resisting
regions –n. a part of a country that is different from other parts in some way
- The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
- Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
- That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
- Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
- It is used in medicine for its stimulant quality.由于它有兴奋剂的特性而被应用于医学。
- Musk is used for perfume and stimulant.麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。