archivos de los protestos globales
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Pics from the "Celebration of the 'End' of the 2000 Campaign for cocaine eradication"
Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2000
Soldiers stand in formation while waiting for a ceremony in Chimore, Bolivia, 580 kilometers (360 miles) southeast of La Paz, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2000. Bolivians are celebrating the end of the 2000 campaign for cocaine eradication, although 6,425 acres still remain. (AP Photo/Pablo Aneli)
Hugo Banzer, president of Bolivia, walks past a military regiment at an anti-drug police force barracks in Chimore, Bolivia, 580 kilometers (360 miles) southeast of La Paz, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2000. With most cocaine crops destroyed in Bolivia, the government claimed victory in its often violence-plagued campaign to rid the nation of drug-growing plantations. President Banzer had promised that by the end of this year his government would eradicate plantations growing the coca leaf used to make cocaine from the main drug-producing region in central Bolivia. At a ceremony Tuesday, he claimed victory.(AP Photo/Pablo Aneli)
Cocaine farmers throw cocaine leaves as a sign of protest in Chimore, Bolivia, 580 kilometers (360 miles) southeast of La Paz, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2000. Cocaine farmers held a demonstration to show that cocaine cultivation still exists on the same day the Bolivian government was holding a ceremony to claim victory in its campaign to rid the nation of drug-growing plantations.(AP Photo)
Bolivian coca growers strew coca leaves on the road near Chimore in Chapare, December 19, 2000. Bolivia says it has almost totally eradicated coca plants from the Chapare jungle region, which was one of the world's main producers of the raw material for cocaine just three years ago. (Pedro Laguna/Reuters)
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