11.   The guerrillas finance their war by demanding ransom for kidnapping victims and by providing protection to drug traffickers and farmers who grow coca, the raw material for cocaine.

12.   The people of Calamar do not grow coca, but their economy depends on it.

13.   The proposal would provide U.S. training, intelligence and equipment to the Colombian military as well as money to support alternative crops for peasants currently growing coca.

14.   Colombian peasants who grow coca complain they have no viable alternatives in remote regions such as Putumayo.

15.   Many poor farmers in the Andes grow coca because the returns are much higher than for traditional crops.

16.   They also will try to cultivate resistance to a planned military push into Amazonian jungles where peasants grow coca, the plant used to make cocaine.

17.   While the cocaine trade nets huge profits for those further up the international drug chain, the small-time farmers who grow coca near Penas Coloradas make very little.

18.   Some also grow coca, the base ingredient of cocaine.

19.   Some also grow coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, authorities say.