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Tom Gjelten Reports From Bolivia Where The U.S. Is Pouring Money

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Published February 9, 1997 at 10:00 PM MST

into a program aimed at encouraging peasant farmers to dig up coca plants and grow mainstream crops instead, as well as helping the military destroy illegal facilities.

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