1.   And waiting for traffickers to come by and transport their coca harvest is a lot easier than finding credits and ways to get legitimate crops to markets.

2.   Peru and Bolivia have reduced their coca leaves harvest, though they have not ended the cultivation of coca plants.

3.   Mapiripan is just across the border from Guaviare department, where rebels collect commissions on coca harvests and routinely shoot at police anti-narcotics planes.

4.   Rebels have long had a strong presence in Caqueta, collecting commissions on coca leaf harvests from cocaine traffickers.

5.   Rebels have long had a strong presence in this southern region, collecting commissions on coca leaf harvests from cocaine traffickers.

6.   The challenge is finding a cash crop that can pay mostly poor farmers as well as do their coca harvests.