51.   Increased cocaine production is directly linked to greater acreage devoted to growing coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine.

52.   Information Minister Ronald MacLean claimed the demonstrations were led by drug traffickers trying to stop a government program to eradicate production of coca leaf, used to make cocaine.

53.   It is not a major producer of the coca leaf, used to make cocaine.

54.   Later, anti-narcotics police clad in combat fatigues found three bags bulging with coca leaf, from which cocaine is made, in a canoe.

55.   Like much of Bolivia, Cochabamba has felt the sting of a government crackdown on coca leaf planting, once a leading source of income.

56.   Many units collect commissions on harvests of coca leaf and get paid to guard cocaine laboratories.

57.   Miners, and adventuresome tourists, sprinkle coca leaves on the statue and chew a few of the stimulant leaves.

58.   Most of the weekend attacks occurred in southeastern Colombia, where rebels collect commissions on harvests of coca leaf, the plant used to make cocaine.

59.   Officials also found and shut down a training camp of the illegal, right-wing paramilitary group and three laboratories used to turn the coca leaves into cocaine.

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