Article on Bolivia's new policies toward coca farming (NY Times}

VILLA TUNARI, Bolivia — Just weeks ago, Bolivian Army troops swooped down on Seberino Marquina's farm and, one by one, ripped his coca bushes from the ground.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/international/americas/12bolivia.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogi

Bolivia's Catch-22 drug war
Bolivia is heavily dependent on U.S. aid and American trading rights.
By Ronald Fraser

1vo Morales, Bolivia's new president, is doing just what the United States expects of a democratically elected leader: Listen and respond to the needs of the Bolivian coca farmers who voted him into office. Morales pledged to end the hated U.S.-backed coca eradication program that destroys thousands of acres of coca and the livelihood of hundreds of Bolivian coca farmers each year. But to do so will lead Bolivia into a drug war trap, a Catch-22 set by none other than the United States.

read whole article (http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/02/22/67283)