41.   Troops were dispatched to the region, a jungle-covered area where coca, from which cocaine is made, is grown.

42.   Until recently, he said, Bolivia was seen only as the source of coca leaf, which is used to make cocaine.

43.   Coca is used to make cocaine, while poppies -- also targeted by the government -- serve to make opium, morphine and heroin.

44.   The farmers are protesting a government policy -- adopted under US pressure -- to eradicate coca production, the lucrative crop used to make cocaine.