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Show Friday, January THE HERALD, Provo Utah, 1, 1988 Bolivian farmers persuaded to destroy coca LA PAZ. Bolivia (AP) A Droeram to "win the hearts and minds" of coca fanners and get them to destroy then-crois meeting with unprecedented success, say local and U.S. officials battling Bolivia's cocaine industry. "More has been done in the last three months to reduce coca production than ever before in this country," said David Greenlee, deputy mission chief at the U.S. Embassy. ps landlocked country of 6.4 million peo ple, most of them extremely poor. Chewing the bushy plant's pale green leaves provides a mild stimulus popular among the local Indian population. However, most of the leaves end up crushed and chemically concentrated into illegal cocaine chlorhydrate, the potent white power sniffed by drug users in the United States and other countries. Profits to the illegal handlers are estimated at about $600 million a year. The program's Bolivian director, Aguilar, said that since August, Total coca cultivation is estimated farmers have destroyed about 2,500 acres of coca, "a quota that was not at 100,000 acres in Bolivia, a country supposed to have been met until abopt the size of Texas and California April." In return they received cash combined, and the eradiction program payments and aid to switch to other is not expected to have an immediate, major impact on drug trafficking. crops such as coffee and citrus fruits. noted a that Aguilar previous proNonetheless, officials said it reversgram eliminated only 950 acres in two es a discouraging trend of failures in years. coca eradication efforts. "There is a little light at the end of Under an accord signed with the United States in August, Bolivia has a the tunnel," said U.S. Ambassador year to eliminate 4,500 acres of coca Edward Rowell. "I think there will fields or face a cutoff in U.S. aid. always be coca in Bolivia, but cocaine Bolivia lost $12 million in aid in 1987 as a power structure will be reduced if for failing to comply with a previous, the government continues at the curAn-ib- al rent rate." similar agreement. Coca growing is legal in Bolivia, a He and other officials are quick to give credit to Aguilar, a sociologist who believes coca farmers must be persuaded and not coerced. "If we do not win the hearts and minds of the farmers, they will turn against us," Aguilar said in an interview. "If we act with force, we will be creating conditions so that the problem becomes violent, with the (drug) Mafia consolidating its position. "We do not want to end up in the same situation as Peru and Colombia, where violence is endemic," he said. Attempts at coercion have met with angry resistance. Two people were killed in clashes with police in June, when about 10,000 farmers blocked g roads to the principal coca-growin- region of the mountainous Chapare region, east of La Paz, to protest a plan that would have made most coca production illegal. The new plan relies on persuasion. Coca farmers receive the equivalent of $2,000 in cash for each hectare (2.471 acres) destroyed, with $365 coming from the United States and the rest from the Bolivian government. A coca farmer with a good harvest can earn about $1,000 a hectare (about U.S.-back- ed State population ranking listed WASHINGTON (AP) Here is the Census Bureau's estimate of the population of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, in order, as of compared with their mid-198- placement in the 1980 census. 1. California 27,663,000 2. New York 17,825,000 3. Texas 16,789,000 4. Florida 12,023,000 5. Pennsylvania 11,936,000 6. Illinois 11,582,000 7. Ohio 8. Michigan 9. New Jersey 10. N. Car. 11. Georgia 12. Virginia 13. Mass. 14. Indiana 15. Missouri 16. Tennessee 17. Wisconsin 1 2 3 7 4 5 6 8 9 10,784,000 9,200,000 7,627,000 6,413,0 6,222,000 5,904,000 5,855,000 5,531,000 5,103,000 4,855,000 4,807,000 7, 10 13 14 18. Washington 19. Maryland 20. Louisiana 21. Minnesota 22. Alabama 23. Kentucky 24. S. Car. 25. Arizona 26. Colorado 27. Oklahoma 28. Connecticut 29. Iowa 30. Oregon 31. Mississippi 32. Kansas 33. Arkansas 34. W. Virginia 20 18 19 21 22 23 24 29 28 26 25 27 4,538,000 4,535,000 4,461,000 4,246,000 4,083,000 3,727,000 3,425,000 3,386,000 3,296,000 3,272,000 3,211,000 2,834,000 2,724,000 2,625,000 2,476,000 35. Utah 36. Nebraska 37. N.Mexico 38. Maine 39. Hawaii 40. New Hamp. 41. Nevada 42. Idaho 43. R.Island 44. Montana 45. S. Dak. 46. N. Dak. 47. Dela. 48. W.D.C. 49. Vermont 50. Alaska 51. Wyoming 30. 31 32 33 34 2,388,000 1,897,000 A 36 35 37 38 39 1,680,000 1,594,000 1,500,000 1,172,000 1,083,000 1,057,000 1,007,000 998,000 41 986,000 40 809,000 44 709,000 672,000 45 46 48 47 49 644,000 622,000 548,000 525,000 490,000 42 43 sistance to to other switch as- Previous, similar plans fell through when farmers failed to receive seeds, loans and other aid in the switch to other crops. The farmers simply returned to coca cultivation. crops. The new program foresees a wide Financing comes from the United range of assistance, including schools, States, the United Nations, Britain and health clinics and electrical other sources, according to Aguilar. roads, About 300,000 people earn their He said international support has in- power. coca cultivation in Bolivia, from living creased as the program shows signs of additional and 100,000 are employed an success. in trading and processing, according The U.S. government has pledged to a U.S. State Department report. $72 million in development assistance to the Chapare and other rural regions Aguilar spends about half his time in through 1991. It also provides military the countryside, talking directly with assistance to Bolivia's security forces coca farmers and community leaders. in an interdiction effort directed He said he has received several against clandestine cocaine laborator- threats of death, but remains commities, with the aim of reducing the ted. market for coca leaves. "For the first time the cocaine trade Aguilar's said his biggest fear is is being destroyed politically, and this that there will not be enough money to is something the traffickers will not sustain the program. forgive me for," he said. "It is one of 0 "If we eliminate 10,000 hectares the last chances we have to deal with, acres) a year it would cost us at the cocaine problem in a reasonable least $70 million to compensate farm and pragmatic way." 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