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  • Leonilda Zurita, a senator in the national congress and one of the major leaders for the women's movement in coca production, rests in her home in Eterezama, Bolivia after returning from a recent trip to Argentina. Zurita has worked closely with the newly elected president Evo Morales in a fight to liberate coca production in Bolivia, and to bring more rights to women farmers in the coca producing regioons of the Chaparé. While being a senator keeps Zurita busy and in a constant state of travel, she still finds time to come home to her husband and to work in her coca and mandarine farms. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Coca leaf production in Eterezama, Bolivia. Photos taken from April march 23-April 3, 2006. (Photo/ MATT NAGER) By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Coca leaf production in Eterezama, Bolivia. Photos taken from April march 23-April 3, 2006. (Photo/ MATT NAGER) By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Rene Uribe checks himself out in a mirror while shaving on a rainy faternoon in Eterezama, Bolivia. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Hermon Vega Paza sits and chews coca leaves in the coca market located in Eterazama, Bolivia while waiting to sell his harvest. Paza, says he chews the leaf all day, every day for energy. He says that while the tradition of chewing the leaf has been around forever, the election of Evo Morales has certainly giving the community more confidence to produce and use the leaf. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Hermon Vega Paza sits and chews coca leaves in the coca market located in Eterazama, Bolivia while waiting to sell his harvest. Paza, says he chews the leaf all day, every day for energy. He says that while the tradition of chewing the leaf has been around forever, the election of Evo Morales has certainly giving the community more confidence to produce and use the leaf. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Rene Arandia Vargas, smokes a cigarette and chews on coca leaves after a hour and half hike into the Chaparé jungle to find his coca farm in Bolivia. Vargas prepares to work for eight hours, and says that the work would be impossible without the help and energy he recieves from chewing the coca leaf. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • A cocalero, or coca farmer, sits and rests with a glass of jello after a day of work in his coca field near in Eterezama, Bolivia. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Rene Arandia Vargas, brother of senator Leonilda Zurita Vargas, poses for a portrait in the home of Leonilda after a day of work in his coca field near Eterezama, Bolivia. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Coca leaf production in Eterezama, Bolivia. Photos taken from April march 23-April 3, 2006. (Photo/ MATT NAGER) By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • 18-year-old Rodriguez Gomez sits in his pile of coca leaves before packing them into bags in order to sell later in the day in Eterazama, Bolivia. Every three months, the Gomez family harvests their coca plants to sell. While it is difficult to make a solid living growing coca, Gomez says he plans to continue working with the plant and hopes to take over the family farm when he grows up. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Leonilda Zurita, a senator in the national congress and one of the major leaders for the women's movement in coca production talks on her cell phone near her home in Eterezama, Bolivia after returning from a recent trip to Argentina. Being a senator keeps Zurita busy and in constant need to communicate with others. While Zurita is in a constant state of travel, she still finds time to come home to her husband and work in her coca field. Zurita has worked closely with the newly elected president Evo Morales in a fight to liberate coca production in Bolivia. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Coca leaf production in Eterezama, Bolivia. Photos taken from April march 23-April 3, 2006. (Photo/ MATT NAGER) By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • 18-year-old Rodriguez Gomez sits in his pile of coca leaves before packing them into bags in order to sell later in the day in Eterazama, Bolivia. Every three months, the Gomez family harvests their coca plants to sell. While it is difficult to make a solid living growing coca, Gomez says he plans to continue working with the plant and hopes to take over the family farm when he grows up. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • A coca farmer sweeps up his pile of coca leaves, which were left to dry, before packing them into bags to sell in Eterazama, Bolivia. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Apolonia Sanchez wipes sweat from her eyes while struggling to recieve cell phone service in the middle of her Chaco, or coca farm, in the jungle inside the Chaparé region of Bolivia. Sanchez, who has fought with Leonilda Zurita for women's rights in the coca production movement, says that while it is easier to grow coca after Evo Morales won presidency, the market is still not overly prosperous. She has had to open a childrens clothing stand near her home in Eterezama to bring in extra money for her family. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Rene Arandia Vargas, right, along with Francisco Bonefar, left front, and Francisco's son, smoke cigarettes and chew on coca leaves after a hour and half hike into the Chaparé jungle to find Varas's coca farm near Eterezama, Bolivia. VThe group will work for almost eight hours, and say that the that the work would be impossible without the help and energy they recieve from chewing the coca leaf. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Coca leaf production in Eterezama, Bolivia. Photos taken from April march 23-April 3, 2006. (Photo/ MATT NAGER) By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Leonilda Zurita, a senator in the national congress and one of the major leaders for the women's movement in coca production talks on her cell phone near her home in Eterezama, Bolivia after returning from a recent trip to Argentina. Being a senator keeps Zurita busy and in constant need to communicate with others. While Zurita is in a constant state of travel, she still finds time to come home to her husband and work in her coca field. Zurita has worked closely with the newly elected president Evo Morales in a fight to liberate coca production in Bolivia. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Rene Uribe looks at a text message from his girlfriend on his cell phone before gong to sleep in Eterezama, Bolivia. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Hermon Vega Paza sits and chews coca leaves in the coca market located in Eterazama, Bolivia while waiting to sell his harvest. Paza, says he chews the leaf all day, every day for energy. He says that while the tradition of chewing the leaf has been around forever, the election of Evo Morales has certainly giving the community more confidence to produce and use the leaf. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • National senator Leonilda Zurita Vargas, left, along with her brother Rene Arandia Vargas, middle, and Francisco Bonefar, walk accross an old tree that lies over a river during their hour and a half hike through the jungles of the Chaparé in Bolivia in search of Leonilda's chaco, or coca farm to harvest the leaves. As a result of past limitations on coca production, Vagas had to hide the production of her farm, and still must hike off the road to work on the farm. By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Coca leaf production in Eterezama, Bolivia. Photos taken from April march 23-April 3, 2006. (Photo/ MATT NAGER) By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Coca leaf production in Eterezama, Bolivia. Photos taken from April march 23-April 3, 2006. (Photo/ MATT NAGER) By photographer Matthew Nager
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  • Apolonia Sanchez sits in her home in the Chaparé jungles near here coca field in Bolivia. Sanchez, came to the Chaparé in search of more money through the selling of coca leaves. By photographer Matthew Nager
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