J.B. Russell

Reportage: Coca Wars: Coca Wars

Two captives in the prison at the UMOPAR, a special narcotics unit of the Bolivian Armed Forces, base at Chimoré. El Chapare, in Bolivia's central lowlands, is the country's principle coca producing region and the heart of the war on drugs.El Chapare, Bolivia.Photo © J.B. Russell
Coca Wars, April 1996
Two captives in the prison at the UMOPAR, a special narcotics unit of the Bolivian Armed Forces, base at Chimoré. El Chapare, in Bolivia's central lowlands, is the country's principle coca producing region and the heart of the war on drugs.
El Chapare, Bolivia.
Photo © J.B. Russell