Morales gives Rice coca leaf-inlay guitar

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Morales gives Rice coca leaf-inlay guitar

Mon Mar 13, 8:36 AM ET

Condoleezza Rice knew coca would top the agenda in her meeting with Bolivia's new president, but she likely wasn't expecting to get the real thing.

At the end of their 25-minute meeting, President Evo Morales presented the U.S. secretary of state with an Andean guitar that bore a coca-leaf inlay.

"The gift was well received. We will just have to check with our customs to see what rules apply. We certainly hope we can bring it back (to Washington)," said a senior State Department official who attended the meeting.

Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, came to prominence as a leader of coca farmers who want more freedom to grow coca, which is the main ingredient in cocaine but is also used legally for traditional medicines and in teas.

He'll be all over it, snorting and a swaggering.

I have a pair of gold earrings that have little gold cocoa leaves dangling from them.

Rules? Rules?

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