An Aymara woman spreads coca leaves out

An Aymara woman spreads coca leaves out in the sun, in the streets of La Asunta, a location in the Bolivian Yungas, 220 km north of La Paz, on March 12, 2010. The growing of coca keeps increasing in the Yungas — where around 70 percent of the leaf is cultivated — despite a Government plan which came into effect on March 1 for the eradication of illegal coca growing. A US State Department’s annual report on drugs, released on March 1, 2010, estimated that Bolivia’s coca cultivation grew by 10 percent last year, and that potential production of the drug ballooned by 50 percent since 2007 — from 130 tonnes to 195 tonnes. AFP PHOTO/Aizar Raldes (Photo credit should read AIZAR RALDES/AFP/Getty Images)