A peasant walks across a coca plantation in the village of Villa Remedios 150km from La Paz 12 October 2007 In the eastern range of the Yungas region...
{"Image ImageDescription": "A peasant walks across a coca plantation in the village of Villa Remedios, 150km from La Paz, 12 October, 2007. In the eastern range of the Yungas region, some 100km from La Paz, the coca cultures have progressively replaced the orange, peach or papaya plantations, but also those of coffe and corn that ensured, until only a few years ago, the supply of the villages. Nowadays all the fruit is imported. With a harvest every three months, compared to the whole year needed for the citrics, planting coca may pay up to 1500 Bolivian pesos (USD 190) a month, three times the average wage in the poorest country in South America.  AFP PHOTO/AIZAR RALDES (Photo credit should read AIZAR RALDES/AFP via Getty Images)", "Image Copyright": "2007 AFP"}