Long criminalized as the raw material for cocaine, coca is woven into Bolivian life. The government is lobbying the U.N. to ...

Felipe Cáceres was the head of the government department for controlled substances from 2006 to 2019 (file photo shows him in 2011) [AIZAR RALDES/AFP via Getty Images] Police in Bolivia have arrested ...

As Bolivia readies to vote in a defining election, a number of key issues are on the table, including the country's huge lithium deposits, the role of unseated ex-leader Evo Morales, and policy on ...

Cocaine growth has continued to decline in Colombia and Bolivia. Colombian police personnel from an anti-narcotics unit custody an illegal laboratory producing cocaine hydrochloride. AFP/Getty Images ...

A former drug czar, who worked under Bolivia's ex-president Evo Morales, has been arrested on charges of producing cocaine, prosecutors said Wednesday.

As the world's third largest supplier of the plant, Bolivia's trying to shake itself free from coca's drug-addled past and turn the crop into nutritious food. There's only one problem: It tastes ...

Police in Bolivia have arrested the country's former counternarcotics czar after finding a cocaine lab on one of his properties, although it is not yet clear if he was aware of its existence. Felipe ...