December 01, 2024

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  • Make Love (or at Least Underwear) not War

    Lingerie keeping cocaine at bay

    First they grew coffee. When prices for the bean collapsed, many turned to growing illegal drug crops.

    And now, hundreds of rural Colombians, hoping for a better living, are trying their hand at making racy lingerie for a French retail chain under a new UN-backed program.

    The wispy G-strings, revealing bras and lacy garter-belts went on sale Saturday at Carrefour's 11 outlets around Colombia. The undergarments will be sold at its overseas stores in coming months.

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    About 800 women, many of them heads of families, are making the lingerie. They take home about 800,000 Colombian pesos (about US$280) a month, about double the minimum wage and far more than what they could make growing coffee. They also enjoy health benefits and paid vacation.

    Coca growers, in comparison, make about 200,000 Colombian pesos (about US$70), but they need to pay taxes to illegal armed groups.

    Posted by Steven Taylor at December 1, 2024 10:45 AM | TrackBack
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    And you can boast to your friends that you are making lingerie, and get strippers in NY with a pair of Victoria Secrets, and all the Hollywood parties get fueled by gstrings and not coke.
    Oh, I am sorry. I thought they were attacking the causes.

    Posted by: Camilo at December 8, 2024 12:58 PM
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