KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: BOLIVIA KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY JACK

KRT WORLD NEWS STORY SLUGGED: BOLIVIA KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY JACK CHANG/KRT (September 12) Egberto Winston Chipana, director of a coca growers' radio station in the Chapare region of Bolivia, said the crop can be used for many legal uses such as tea, toothpaste and dietary supplements. United States and Bolivian officials want to eradicate what they say is illegal coca cultivation in the region. Thanks to a truce that expires October 1, this region of Central Bolivia has been more peaceful than in the past decade, when battles raged between coca growers and government troops. (Photo by Jack Chang/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)