41.   Hernan Ordonez looks over the rows of coca plants and the other young men feverishly pulling in the cocaine harvest.

42.   New coca plants are destroyed by police and soldiers, who have clashed with peasant farmers.

43.   The Bolivian Workers Confederation contends the state of siege is in part a government attempt to destroy coca plants without paying the compensation.

44.   The confederation contends the state of siege was part of a government attempt to destroy coca plants without paying compensation to farmers and to privatize state companies by force.

45.   The government remained firm in its decision to eradicate all illegal coca plants in the Chapare without compensating farmers.

46.   The leaves of the coca plant provide the raw material for cocaine.

47.   The leaves of the coca plant are the raw material for cocaine.

48.   The leaves of the coca plant provides the raw material for cocaine.

49.   They have stepped up efforts to eradicate poppy and coca plants, winning praise from U.S. Ambassador Myles Frechette.

50.   Thousands of coca leaf farmers, meanwhile, have broken ranks with Morales and have agreed to voluntarily eradicate coca plants in exchange for the development of alternative products.