The Bush Administration's budget presentation for 2003 explains, "Foreign Military financing (FMF) funds will be used to educate, train, and equip the Bolivian security forces to increase their effectiveness in their traditional national security role, which will help ensure regional stability, as well as in their multilateral role as international peacekeepers. Some of these funds will be spent to increase Bolivia's peacekeeping capabilities and to ensure that they continue to remain engaged in peacekeeping operations around the world."

The same document goes on to describe the Regional Security portion of FMF used for Bolivia saying, "In Bolivia, the focus will continue to be on the Army's new 9th Division, which will conduct presence operations in the volatile Chapare region." [1]

Sources:

¹ United States, Department of State, FY 2003 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations (Washington, DC: April 15, 2002) <http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/9476.pdf>.