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...representative of such farmers, Vargas is secretary general of Bartolina Sisa, the National Federation of the Women’s Peasant Movement and president of the Six Federations of Coca Growers in Bolivia...
Wearing a traditional Bolivian hat, she told the audience through an interpreter of her childhood in Chapare, a poverty-stricken region she said is largely populated by coca farmers...
...said she received only a seventh grade education because a government intervention to allow coca farmers to switch to less internationally controversial crops failed, forcing her to return home in order to help her family survive...
...supported the Bolivian government in its violent campaign against coca growers because of its potential to be turned into cocaine, she said...
...spending 60-hour weeks in labs, biting your nails over your non-viable thesis experiments. Rule #1 for any thesis: Make sure that you have a viable project. My first thesis topic was an exposé on the evils of Diet Coke, a project wholly dependent on the Coca-Cola Company admitting to the addictive, cancer-causing nature of its lucrative product. (I kid you not.) This is a flagrant example of a non-viable thesis project. Other examples include: trying to split the atom with light rays, writing the next Great American novel and constructing a new theoretical framework...