1. Another time, they forbade coca growers to cut down trees in a part of the rain forest, and again, nobody dared to defy them. 2. A three-week-long road blockade by the coca growers that ended last week did serious harm to American and Bolivian efforts to encourage alternative agricultural development. 3. After troops broke up roadblocks manned by coca growers in the Chapare in April, they were ordered to begin eradication operations. 4. By comparison, Colombian coca growers have been considerably more sophisticated about the science of their work. 5. Coca growers who have had their fields eradicated are starting over by building their own botanical gardens and amusement parks cut out of the jungles in their backyards. 6. Coca growers have taken advantage of the situation. 7. Congressman Evo Morales, the leader of the coca growers, said on Friday that his movement would continue to march and block roads until the government backs down. 8. Coca growers ambushed a drug eradication team near this rebellious hamlet one day early this month, leaving one policeman dead and three wounded. 9. Evidence is mounting that coca growers and guerrilla outfits are working together. 10. He also cracked down hard on coca growers and drug-traffickers, winning praise from Washington. |
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