Bolivia is the world’s third-largest producer of cocaine. It’s unclear how close Dávila is to Morales, a former coca grower. But the two appeared together in an October 2019 photograph ...

The ONDCP report showed that activity in Bolivia remained “stable” when compared to 2020 when coca crops comprised 39,400 hectares with a potential to produce 312 tons of cocaine, while in ...

Route 36 in La Paz, Bolivia, is renowned for being the world’s only cocaine bar. But what is it really like to spend an evening there? One woman reports on an eye ...

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 ...

Released on February 18, 2025, in La Paz, the findings reveal a rise from 29,900 hectares in 2022, challenging Bolivia's efforts to curb its cocaine trade role. Coca fields spread into protected ...

Within this trio, Bolivia—second to Peru as a producer of coca leaf and to Colombia as a producer of refined cocaine—has been the largest recipient of U.S. counternarcotics aid. The impact of ...

Within Bolivia, the world's third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine, the ancient leaf has inspired spiritual rituals among Indigenous communities for generations — and more ...

Bolivian President Luis Arce reaffirmed the nation's commitment to the legal uses of coca leaf, claiming that 'it is not cocaine.' During the National Acullico Day event in La Paz on January 11 ...

Morales has long insisted coca was not cocaine and that it belonged ... the first processing factory for this plant was opened in Bolivia, In December of the same year, Bolivia joined the 1961 ...

Soldiers on patrol were met with peasant militias and booby traps. While the war on drugs may have reduced Bolivia’s cocaine output, it destroyed the livelihoods of rural communities while ...