31.   President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada said the state of siege was extended to preserve order and tranquility in the coca leaf and cocaine-producing region in central Bolivia.

32.   Peru is a major producer of the coca leaf used to make cocaine.

33.   Additional funds are will be used to encourage Colombian farmers to develop crops other than coca leaf and other narcotics plants.

34.   As defense minister, Botero oversaw an aggressive government program to spray herbicide on fields of coca leaf and poppy, the plants used to make cocaine and heroin.

35.   But coca leaf has been used for centuries in Andean countries as a tea and for medicinal and religious purposes.

36.   Chewing coca leaf, he leads then into the Grito de Piedra mine.

37.   Coca leaf is grown in the Andean foothills of Bolivia and Peru.

38.   Coca leaf is used to make cocaine.

39.   Coca leaves are used in the production of cocaine.

40.   Coca leaf is the main ingredient used in the production of cocaine.