Here they will turn the coca leaves into coca paste, 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 ...

Once extracted, the cocaine paste undergoes purification and is converted into the crystalline powder known as cocaine hydrochloride. The end product, often “cut” or diluted with other ...

Drug smuggling: More than $10 million in cocaine, meth found in jalapeño paste shipment, federal officials say Officials said this seizure surpasses the previous largest U.K. seizures of 4.1 tons ...

The now-former Congressman and Sanabria had financed the release of a gang member known as Kanguru, a Bolivian national who allegedly supplied the criminal organization with cocaine paste ...