With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia's government is testing a pacific approach to its narcotics problem: ...

The agency funded economic and agricultural training and technology, and helped farmers gain access to international markets.

With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia's government is trying a new approach to its narcotics problem: paying farmers to uproot crops of coca, the drug's main ingredient. Among the ...

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 ...

Colombia remains the world’s top cocaine producer, and each year the South American country breaks new records. Coca crops ...

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 ...

While the war on drugs may have reduced Bolivia’s cocaine output, it destroyed the livelihoods of rural communities while, paradoxically, the increased scarcity of coca left it a more profitable ...

A near-record number of narco subs were intercepted crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 2024, according to InSight ...

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 ...