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TO GO WITH AFP STORYA peasant covers a billboard of the cooperation programme United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with white paint, in the Bolivian locality of Shinahota, 172 km east of Cochabamba, on June 26, 2008. The US programme is pulling out from the Chapare, the country's largest coca-growing region, after peasants decided its expulsion for considering its members were feeding a conspiracy against Bolivian President Evo Morales. The president himself had said he wanted "the region free from US imperialism". AFP PHOTO/STR




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