For thousands of years, people in the Andes have chewed the leaves of the coca plant to stave off hunger, treat altitude sickness, and sustain energy. Yet under international law, this ancient crop is ...
Colombia will use drones to resume spraying of coca crops with a weed killer, the government announced on Monday, as authorities grapple with record levels of cocaine production that have fueled ...
The business of cocaine trafficking has changed over the years, with different players and routes. A look at how the trade really works.
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” Coca-plant cultivation has shot up in South America ...
Annual data for 2017 says coca cultivation rose 11 percent to 209,000 hectares (516,450 acres), a level unseen in more than two decades of record keeping and $10 billion in U.S. counter-narcotics work ...
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