1.   He has ordered troops to keep tabs on coca farmers and destroy every illegal coca plantation in the nation within five years.

2.   In mid-December, guerrillas trapped Gallego for two days in Miraflores, an Amazon town surrounded by coca plantations.

3.   Once secured, the police would go in to wipe out the coca plantations.

4.   The province has also been a major cocaine smuggling route, with dozens of clandestine airstrips, cocaine processing laboratories and even some coca plantations.

5.   Their mission is to destroy labs and eradicate coca plantations.

6.   Three private pilots, contracted by the State Department to fumigate coca plantations, have been killed in the past two years.

7.   Two of the battalions are already protecting police spraying the coca plantations with herbicides.

8.   Worried about a revolution in Peru, Coca-Cola had established a coca plantation in Hawaii to assure a supply of the plant for its soft drinks.

9.   President Hugo Banzer has vowed to stop cocaine production in Bolivia within five years and destroy all illegal coca plantations.

10.   As foreign minister, Rangel opposed the U.S.-backed military portion of Plan Colombia, an offensive to wrest coca plantations from the control of leftist Colombian guerrillas.