| Scientists note that the narco traders will simply breed their coca plants to be resistant to the disease. |
| It is made abundantly clear to campesinos out in the countryside that to grow coca is against the law. |
| Bolivia was told that if coca production didn't cease entirely by 2000, aid packages would stop and the loans would be called in. |
| In others, village growers simply find it more remunerative to sell coca to drug dealers than to market pineapples at the local mercado. |
| But coca is a very resilient plant, and fresh green leaves are already sprouting from stalks fumigated a few months ago. |
| The coca farmers, who had yet to join the protests, indicated that they would march on La Paz and block the roads. |
