With permission from the DEA, Stepan imports upwards of 100 metric tons of coca leaves each year, primarily from Peru. Upon receipt, the company extracts the cocaine from the leaves whereupon they ...

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% ...

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 ...

Here they will turn the coca leaves into coca paste, a brick of dried powder that is just one stop short of pure cocaine. Small amounts of coca are legal for the indigenous who consider it a ...

‘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 ...

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 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 - ...