Colombia's cocaine output increased to a record 1,738 tons last year, compared to just 972 tons in 2021. Meanwhile, the country's most prominent oil company saw first-half profits crash by over ...

Colombia's Cocaine Production Continues to Grow and Break Records. ... Some 423,000 acres of land were used to grow coca, the plant whose leaf is the main ingredient of the drug, in 2017.

A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

Inside Colombia and U.S. efforts to stem cocaine production 03:51. Vice President Mike Pence told the president of Colombia last night that he is very concerned by the "dramatic increase" in ...

Enough coca plants were grown in 2017 to produce 1,379 metric tons of cocaine, up 31% from the 2016 harvest, said Bo Mathiasen, representative of the U.N.’s Office on Drugs and Crime in Colombia.

In a shocking development, Colombia’s cocaine production, for the 10th year straight, soared to a new record high. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that the year’s annual ...

In a few cases, the Colombian groups have maintained direct routes to foreign markets. Most of Colombia’s current drug trafficking organizations were formed a decade ago by mid-level commanders of ...

Cultivation of the coca plant rose to a record last year, U.S. figures showed Tuesday, putting pressure on Colombia’s government to implement ambitious programs to wean farmers off illicit crops.

Colombia's national potential cocaine output and the amount of cocaine produced per hectare are growing, thanks to highly-productive coca strains, even as crop area shrinks. (% change) Net coca ...

Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has focused on targeting drug trafficking networks and a shift away from eradicating the coca leaf has helped feed the surge in cocaine production, according ...

What's more, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the State Department and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime all agree that the cultivation of coca, the plant used ...

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia — Colombia saw a record level of coca plant cultivation last year, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday, raising renewed concerns about the war ...