For thousands of years, people in the Andes have chewed the leaves of the coca plant to stave off hunger, treat altitude sickness, and sustain energy. Yet under international law, this ancient crop is ...

To explain why he grows coca, the raw material for cocaine, rather than food crops on his 5-acre farm in southern Colombia, Luis Tapia does the math. Every three months, Tapia, 60, harvests the bright ...

Colombia will use drones to resume spraying of coca crops with a weed killer, the government announced on Monday, as authorities grapple with record levels of cocaine production that have fueled ...

Cartels have created a genetically modified super coca plant to produce more crops annually and extract more cocaine, the ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian security forces will start eradicating illegal coca plants for the first time in a lawless jungle region that produces most of the cocaine in the country, the government ...