The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial ...

Before it became the world’s most iconic soft drink, Coca-Cola was a potent cocktail of cocaine and caffeine - marketed as a health tonic and sold in pharmacies. This video uncovers the real story ...

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 ...

The booming cocaine trade is driving insecurity, corruption, and violence, damaging key economic sectors like the oil industry. The cultivation of coca and production of cocaine has been fueled by ...

Coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia increased during 2023, as the government has stopped forced eradication efforts and concentrated on seizures to fight drug trafficking. Coca cultivation ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is within these communities that they are thought to have evolved from wild to domesticated coca plants. Their leaves, packed with many active compounds, just one of these being cocaine ...

The shift comes as Colombian President Gustavo Petro keeps a lenient policy towards the coca crop industry in place that dates back to 2013, when the cocaine industry generated just $2.2 billion ...

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 ...

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 ...