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In late 1985, Paz Estenssoro was under pressure from the U.S., which threatened to cut Bolivia's aid in half unless Bolivia could eliminate 10,000 acres of [[coca ]] cultivation.<ref name="APJan1086">Peter McFarren, "Government May Send Troops to End Siege of Anti-narcotics Squad," The Associated Press, January 10, 1986.</ref> The government crop reduction program began in December 1985, promising farmers $350 for each hectare taken out of coca cultivation. At the time a farmer in [[Chapare]] told reporters that he earns 10 times more from coca than he could from any other crop.