Some 4,000 Colombian farming families have signed up for the project. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The South American nation is the world’s largest exporter of cocaine, which is made from coca leaves. Colombia provides 90% of the cocaine sold in the United States each year. Colombia’s ...

Bloomberg economist Felipe Hernandez said the increase in coca production could mean cocaine export revenues will “jump to $18.2 billion in 2022 — not far behind oil exports of $19.1 billion ...

MICAY CANYON, Colombia—One potent tributary in the surging cocaine pipeline begins in the mountains of Cauca province, where nearly every plot of arable land sprouts coca leaves. On Cesar Rosero ...

“Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in,” Musk wrote in a viral tweet on April 27. While Musk’s tweet is getting a lot of attention, his claim about an illicit ingredient in ...

A worker monitors coca leaf-flavored beer bottles on the assembly line at El Viejo Roble liqueurs in La Paz, Bolivia (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights ...

Even as production surges, domestic and foreign shifts in the global drug industry have devastated many poor Colombians whose livelihoods are tied to cocaine. Roger Guzman, 19, harvesting coca ...

One person said: “The drink undeniably had some cocaine in it in the early days, and it’s not bulls***, the coca stands for coca leaf which is the source of alkaloid, cocaine.” Another added ...

Here’s how it works. Traces of cocaine discovered in mummified brain tissue reveal that Europeans were chewing coca leaves — possibly for medical or recreational purposes — in the 17th ...