A report published in October by the international organization found that the cultivation of coca bushes increased by 10% in Colombia in 2023, while potential cocaine production increased 53% ...

(AP Photo/Bruna Prado)(Bruna Prado / AP) Brazilian drug gangs are bringing in far more money from fuel and other products than from cocaine trafficking, an expansion into formal economic sectors ...

Despite gaining notoriety in modern times for being the source material for the highly addictive drug cocaine, coca continues to be a large part of Andean culture today. Unprocessed leaves from ...

As president, he has sharply boosted cocaine seizures while promoting new legal applications for coca leaf. In addition to Coca Brynco, there is also an energy drink on the Bolivian market ...

Colombian authorities are holding a crew of drug traffickers that a grand jury in New York charged with using a fleet of submarines to ferry over 5,000 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S., federal ...

‘The final destination was not Entre Rios, as the forced landing was down to a lack of fuel.’ Bolivia is one of the top cultivators of coca plants – from which cocaine is derived – along ...

The region has approximately 55,000 hectares of coca crops and is one of Colombia's main producers of cocaine. Petro said farmers in Catatumbo will eradicate their coca plantings voluntarily and ...

The coca paste residue is placed in water and heated until most of the water content is evaporated. Cocaine is smuggled to the US a variety of ways. It can travel by sea on anything from small ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...