Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying ...

Coca cultivation in Honduras spread to 16 municipalities in 2024 indicating that the crop has become an established criminal ...

A journey lasting more than a day concludes in Atlanta, only to mark the start of another, a 10-day adventure. This trip is a ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia asked the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, from its list of harmful substances. At a commission ...

The initiative aims to eradicate 25,000 hectares of coca bushes within 140 days while maintaining military operations against ...

A group of artisans and two designers from Bogotá are determined to recover the plant’s ancestral use as a pigment and ...

And since 1961, coca has been listed among the most dangerous substances by the U.N. This on its own wouldn’t have attracted the attention of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ...