71. A government prohibition on the sale of coca leaf in traditional markets touched off three weeks of protests in which four police officers and three farmers were killed. 72. Bolivian authorities banned the coca growing in the Chapare region to comply with US demands to halt trafficking of cocaine, a powerful derivative of the coca leaf. 73. Coca leaves are the raw material from which cocaine is manufactured after the leaves have been ground into coca paste. 74. Coca leaves are the raw material from which cocaine is processed. 75. Coca leaves are the raw material from which cocaine is produced, mostly in Peru and Bolivia. 76. Coca leaves, the raw material from which cocaine is processed, are legal in Andean areas of Bolivia. 77. Cocaine is extracted from the coca leaf and farmers, who sell the raw material to drug cartels, are reluctant to abandon their lucrative crops without adequate compensation. 78. Coca paste, made from coca leaves, is the raw material from which cocaine is processed. 79. Coca leaf is the lucrative raw material from which cocaine is processed. 80. The Upper Huallaga Valley is a major center for processing coca leaves into cocaine. |
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