EL PLATEADO/SAN JUAN DE MICAY, Colombia (Reuters) -The dilapidated, tin-roofed schoolhouse sits perched amid fields of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, in the small southwestern Colombian town of ...

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 ...

A short drive north of Bolivia’s capital La Paz, deep in the lush green valleys of the Yungas, Alicia Calle, a middle-aged Indigenous cocalero (coca farmer), plucked the leaves off the shrubs on her ...

For the coca farmers of western Bolivia's Las Yungas region, the loss of president Evo Morales -- himself a one-time coca grower, and a champion of indigenous rights -- is less worrying than the drop ...