Colombia's record-high cocaine production is fueling instability, corruption, and violence, threatening the nation's economy ...

Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. The latter made headlines in ...

Although cocaine use became widespread in the 19th century once it was synthesized into cocaine hydrochloride salts, ...

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 sacred plant. Wandering the countryside, a policeman is ...

Today coca leaves are harvested as an essential ingredient of the illegal, but highly lucrative, production of cocaine. Despite the plant’s role in so much violence and political instability ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

Four days since he made the threat, the military is still nowhere to be seen in the lush, green mountains which are carpeted ...