BOLIVIAN ANTI DRUG POLICE DESTROY COCA MACERATION PIT IN CHAPARE, 2002-05-21 (photo)

Members of Bolivia's elite anti-drug police force patrol around a coca maceration pit before setting it on fire, in the jungle of the cocaine-producing Chapare province, May 21, 2002. Bolivia President Jorge Quiroga, who finishes his one-year, interim government in August, led a group of journalists to see the results of the coca-eradication program initiated by his predecessor, Hugo Banzer Suarez, who died earlier this month of cancer, and continued by his own administration. Although the U.S.-financed program has achieved a substantial reduction of illegal coca plantations, Quiroga said that only constant police interdiction in the drug trade will keep coca fields from being replanted. REUTERS/David Mercado RR/HK