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	Chapare Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chapare, also called The Chapare, is a rural province in the northern region of Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia.
		The majority of the territory is comprised of valley rainforests that surround the area's main waterway, the Chapare River, which is also a tributary of the Amazon River.
		In recent decades, the Chapare has become a haven for the illegal cultivation of the coca plant, which can be used to produce cocaine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chapare_Province (223 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Lowland Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It says that continuing disorder in Chapare, where the government is waging an aggressive anti-drug campaign, and unspecified threats to the capitalization of state companies, necessitate a ban on all forms of protest.
		Chapare is reported to be a major region for the growth and processing of coca (Times, London, 02/13/99).
		Despite the agreement with farmers and teachers, the main highway in the central Chapare province remained populated with coca farmers on October 6.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=14502 (6419 words)

	RS Mertins & Popp (Bolivia): Chapter 4.7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A solution to the land tenure conflicts in the complete project area is extremely difficult since it includes the main coca cultivation area in Bolivia (Province Chapare).
		The "Plan for a Sustained Development in the Tropic Zone Cochabamba" project intends, within the framework of its indigenous component, to give technical support the Yuki and Yucararé Indians with the definition of their territorial demands, and to provide legal assistance with the consolidation of their territories.
		Planned is a project of "alternative development", including the province of Chapare, the main area of coca cultivation in Bolivia.
	www.mekonginfo.org /mrc/html/popp/pop4_7.htm (812 words)

	americas.org - Eight Killed Amid Protests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		With the support of numerous other social sectors, the roadblocks were called to demand demilitarization of the coca growing Chapare region of Cochabamba, the suspension of forced coca eradication to carry out a study of legal coca markets, and a land redistribution program; and against participation in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
		Chapare resident Víctor Hinojosa was killed by a bullet fired by security forces near Parotani, outside the Chapare in the lower Cochabamba valley, where the cocaleros had gone to set up road blockades.
		A miner was killed on January 18 in Machacamarquita, Oruro Province, when army and police used force to keep miners from entering the provincial capital to demand the reactivation of the Huanuni mine.
	www.americas.org /item_8193 (592 words)

	2003 Flood Archive
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		Riau province - Kampar regency, Siak Hulu subdistrict: Tanjung Balam, Buluh Cina, Kampung Pinang, Lubuk Siam and Teratak Buluh.
		Phu Yen Province (Tuy Hoa, Phu Hoa districts).
	www.dartmouth.edu /~floods/Archives/2003sum.htm (1457 words)

	1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Analysis suggests that the estimated increase in opium poppy cultivation in Helmand province alone accounted for 51% of the total increase in opium poppy cultivation in 1999, whilst the estimated 5,168 hectare increase in opium poppy cultivation in Nangarhar province in 1999 represented approximately 19% of the total increase.
		The residual proportion of the increase was derived from the increase in opium poppy cultivation recorded in the remaining opium poppy cultivating provinces.
		Nangarhar province experienced a 29% increase in opium poppy cultivation between 1998 and 1999, producing an estimated 22,990 hectares of opium poppy in the 1998/99 growing season.
	www.pcpafg.org /Organizations/undcp/executive.htm (1561 words)

	TNI Drugs and Democracy
		After a series of violent confrontations in 1995, the seeming calm in the Chapare region of Bolivia for much of 1996 took a dramatic turn for the worse at the end of the year, and the situation remains very tense.
		This violence stems from conflict generated by coca eradication in the Chapare region of the country and especially from the increase in forced eradication.
		The Bolivian police confiscated and burned bicycles (the main form of transportation in the Chapare), entered people's homes without warrants and without identifying themselves (with their faces covered), stole people's belongings and destroyed legitimate crops in addition to legal and illegal coca plants.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tni/drugs-docs/bol.htm (1980 words)

	CSN: November 2000 News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The plan, supported with American funding, is a crucial component in the government's $7.5 billion effort to eradicate coca in this prime coca region and thereby weaken the rebels, who use coca profits to finance their guerrilla war.
		In Putumayo, a poor and isolated province of farms and dusty towns carved out of Amazonian jungle, farmers remember how a government agency in 1996 prodded them to give up coca for the spiny palm trees that produce heart of palm.
		In Chaparé Province in Bolivia, where coca has nearly been wiped out, farmers who were paid to switch to other crops often kept growing coca, Mr.
	www.colombiasupport.net /200011?fileName=nyt-20001120.html (1266 words)

	THE CRAZY WAR ON DRUGS - Growing the stuff
		Doña Inés came to the subtropical Chapare plains twenty years ago with her parents – farmers from Arani, a neighbouring province stricken by frequent droughts.
		While some have migrated to the Chapare, swelling the overall number of coca producers to an estimated 60,000, many more benefit indirectly through increased commerce and services in an informal economy which is largely sustained by laundered drug money.
		In a remote province of the northern Beni region, where cocaine factories’ lie buried in the jungle, 44 small aircraft were impounded in three recent raids by anti-drug squads, who reckoned that their haul represented about a quarter of the fleet operating in the area.
	www.newint.org /issue224/growing.htm (1964 words)

	A NEW SCYTALOPUS TAPACULO (RHINOCRYPTIDAE) FROM BOLIVIA, WITH NOTES ON OTHER BOLIVIAN MEMBERS OF THE GENUS AND THE ...
		Consideration of this tapaculo's dis- tribution, vocalizations and, to a lesser extent, plumages, informed through examination of currently recognized species limits in the genus Scytalopus both in Bolivia and elsewhere in the Andes, convinces me that it is a new taxon best described as a new species, which I propose to name: Scytalopus schulenbergi sp.
		Chapare, 3 km by road E Tablas Monte, 2615 m, 27 Feb 1992.
		Same song is given by central La Paz and Santa Cruz populations; differs from that of populations in northern La Paz and southern Peru.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Wilson/v106n04/p0585-p0614.html (19422 words)

	Asuka In Cochabamba, BOLIVIA: The Chapare!!!!!!!!
		The city of Cochabamba (where I live) is midway between the cold Altiplano and the tropical lowlands, and the "department" of Cochabamba (which is like a province) stretches across the altiplano and also covers the eastern part of the Amazon.
		Chapare is in the Department of Cochabamba, and is a broad, rainforest-covered plain in the Upper Amazon Basin.
		Friday morning, myself, 3 other students, plus the two directors of our school (who are husband and wife) left at 5am in the morning to Chapare.
	asukayoshioka.blogspot.com /2004/09/chapare.html (1024 words)

	Conservacion In-situ en tel area de Colomi,Cochabamba, Bolivia
		PROVINCE ZONE/COMMUNITY ALTITUDE (masl) ART CROPS Ayopaya Independencia 3,200-3,400 Oca, Papalisa, Chapare Chuchuani* Isano, Yacon,Arracacha Chapare Candelaria* 3,200-3,500 Oca, Papalisa Rodeo Alto Isano.
		The Ayopaya, Chapare, Carrasco and Arani provinces of the Department (state) of Cochabamba stand out for the diversity of cultivars.
		Surveys among intermediaries and producers alike on the origin of the produce they bring to the markets and their knowledge of other producing zones for oca, papalisa, and isa?o, as well as on the variability among these crops, permitted to identify 21 zones and/or communities in three provinces.
	www.condesan.org /e-foros/insitu95/e_terrazas.htm (696 words)

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		In Kunduz province opium poppy was surveyed in the districts of Aliabad, Chahar Darreh, Emam Saheb, Khanabad, Kunduz and Qala-e Zal.
		The Provinces and Districts Cultivating Opium Poppy in 1998/99
		Helmand province alone was reported to cultivate 44,552 hectares of opium in 1999 compared to 30,673 hectares in 1998, representing an increase of approximately 45%.
	www.maurizioturco.it /arlacchi/banca_dati/Afghanistan_Opium_Poppy_Survey/opium_poppy_survey_99.htm (5640 words)

	::Visión Mundial Bolivia:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Education in the province is precarious, reflecting extreme poverty in this area.
		In the communities covered by the project, 95% of all inhabitants work in subsistence agriculture and cattle-breeding, and temporarily or definitively migrate to the Chapare region and/or the cities of Oruro and Cochabamba.
		Average rainfall amounts to 600 mms/yearly, the average temperature to 16°C. The population density amounts to 9,6 inhabitants per km2, the majority of the population living dispersed in 65 communities in the province.
	www.visionmundial.org.bo /en/pda_bolivar.shtml (1726 words)

	Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A large number of the poor depend on the illegal cultivation of coca for a living in the central region of Chapare, in the tropical department (province) of Cochabamba.
		It was from the ranks of the marginalised, impoverished indigenous sectors who sought a livelihood in the jungle region of Chapare that Morales emerged, first as a trade union leader of the coca growers and today, at the age of 46, as the possible successor to caretaker President Eduardo Rodríguez.
		The main highway linking eastern and western Bolivia runs through the central Chapare region, which was the scenario of protests and roadblocks by coca farmers, in which clashes with the military and police led to dozens of deaths on both sides in the past 15 years.
	www.galdu.org /english/index.php?odas=813 (2080 words)

	Chronology
		They want an end to the police presence in the region, a cancellation of the planned privatization of the state oil company, and compensation for the families of five coca growers who were killed last year in confrontations with the police (Agence France Presse, 01/17/96).
		The United States CIA indicated that, in 1998, the Bolivian government orchestrated the removal of coca from 25 percent of the land where it was grown in the Chapare region, the area where 90 percent of the illicit exporting of Bolivian coca occurred.
		Disputes had occurred in both Oruro and Potosi provinces, which are located in the southwestern part of Bolivia, near the Bolivia-Chile border.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/hindbolchro.htm (8456 words)

	E) South America
		In November 2001, the GOB issued a decree which authorized the seizure of illegal coca that is transported or dried in the Chapare and the arrest and prosecution of those involved.
		Despite the eradication of 9,395 hectares in the Chapare region during 2001, massive illegal replanting led to increased coca cultivation.
		Based on a study of 108 samples taken in the Chapare the average purity of cocaine base was 73.9 percent.
	www.state.gov /p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2001/rpt/8477.htm (14313 words)

	granma.cu - Evo Morales to stand for Bolivian presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		CAMPESINO leader Evo Morales has confirmed that he is to stand for the presidency of Bolivia in the forthcoming general elections this December, after receiving the support of the main trade unions representing the country’s coca producers, reported EFE.
		His candidature required the formal approval of the sector’s union assembly which met last Saturday at its headquarters in the tropical region of Chapare, in the central province of Cochabamba.
		Morales announced there would be a second statement on Thursday in the province of Santa Cruz and a third on the 24 in Caranavi in La Paz province.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/2005/julio/lun11/29evo.html (247 words)

	Global Economic Integration and Rural Environmental Change in the Andean Countries
		Low-moderate population growth was the result primarily of permanent out-migration, whereby inhabitants of the Calicanto watershed and nearby areas relocated outside the province, especially to the capital city Cochabamba (1950 population 82,397, 1976 population 222,067l; INE 1982).
		Another plain evidence of abundant economic ties between the Chapare and the nearby highlands is the estimate that 95% of peasant colonizers in the Chapare continue to own lands in the highlands (Rivera 1990: 12).
		As early as 1981 the number of permanent inhabitants in the Chapare numbered 83,525, 40% of whom had resided there for less than five years (Flores and Blanes 1984), and by 1985 the resident population of the Chapare reached 125,000 (Healy 1986).
	www.utexas.edu /depts/grg/eworks/proceedings/engeo/zimmerer/zimmerer.html (8689 words)

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	www.dartmouth.edu /~floods/Archives/2003sum.xls (2775 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Morales tells farmers coca leaf winning "green battle" against U.S. dollar
		The audience, the atmosphere and the speech were deeply different here in the heart of the coca-growing region of Chapare, where Morales repeated his promise to allow coca cultivation, an activity that helps sustain nearly 30,000 families in the area.
		The president-elect has said farmers in Chapare, most of whom also grow subsistence crops, should be allowed to plant 1.6 hectares (3.7 acres) per family of coca leaf, a proposal rejected by the United States in the past.
		The attack occurred late Thursday in Helmand province as the officers were eating dinner at their post, Nazarjusth district police chief Haji Bahadur Khan said More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/12/30/70712.html (2566 words)

	deseretnews.com \| World datelines
		The suspects were arrested in Dara Bagh area in Zabul province on Monday, said Haji Granai, a senior Afghan army official in Kandahar.
		LA PAZ — Flooding in central Bolivia has killed at least 19 people and left 40 missing, most of them passengers on a bus that was swept away by a swollen river, authorities said Wednesday.
		After days of heavy rains, the Chapare River collapsed a bridge and carried away the bus some 400 miles southeast of La Paz on Tuesday morning, police said.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,575039224,00.html (659 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		According to the Times, opposition to spraying is so strong in southern Colombia that mayors, Church officials and others have been pushing President Andrés Pastrana´s government and the United States to stop the spraying.
		The governors of the four most affected provinces -- Putumayo, Nariño, Cauca and Tolima -- called for an end to the aerial spraying and more funding for social programs to encourage farmers to turn to legal crops.
		Experience with eradication programs in the Chapare region of Bolivia shows that it is not enough to just wipe out the coca crops.
	www.zenit.org /english/archive/0103/WA010324.html (3388 words)

	americas.org - 6,000 Troops in Coca Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Two of the arrested leaders were not identified; cocalero leaders identified the third as Osvaldo Toco, who had previously been accused of involvement in the September 2000 killings of antidrug police lieutenant David [or Víctor] Andrade and his wife Graciela Alfaro.
		The government claims the Chapare is now under its control, but campesinos warn they will begin blocking the main highway between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz on November 6 if their demands are not met.
		The government has threatened to use any means necessary to prevent roadblocks, while campesinos say they will all weapons at their disposal, including dynamite, to prevent the eradication of their crops.
	www.americas.org /item_7309 (511 words)

	MOONLIT MONEY: The shady world of underground work - NI 173 - Snorting disaster
		The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days: the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba province.
		Now, in Chapare, it produces 40-45 per cent of the world’s supply of cocaine.
		Even the landing of US troops into Chapare last year caused considerable outrage but achievements were minimal.
	www.newint.org /issue173/snorting.htm (2186 words)

	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; September 26, 1997
		Duhalde's husband, Eduardo Duhalde, is the governor of Buenos Aires province and is the most likely PJ candidate to succeed Menem in 1999.
		Nayar made the announcement in Cochabamba, capital of the department that includes the Chapare region where most of the coca used for cocaine is grown.
		The government pledged to develop projects for alternative crops and economic opportunities in the Chapare that in theory could match the economic benefits brought by coca.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h97/notisur.19970926.html (2703 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Summary Record - Bolivia
		That was an illicit economic activity, which in its heyday in the 1990s had been conducted by a strategic alliance of trade unions and coca producers.
		Excesses could be committed in the course of trying to eradicate coca cultivation, and the Ministry of Justice had established an office in Chapare in an attempt to restore a balance in the fight against drug trafficking.
		In Sud Yungas province, 10,000 of the 12,000 hectares of coca plantations were destined for traditional use.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/d40a43fcedcddc48c1256a4c00389eb5?Opendocument (5861 words)

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