The main cocaine trafficking flows remain from the Andean countries in South America to North America, but also from the ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales visited a coca-growing region Saturday to open a Venezuelan-funded factory where coca leaves will be made into legal products such as tea ...

"There's really only one good use for the coca leaf in economic terms, and that's cocaine," the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, told The Associated Press.

Bolivia hardens tone on cocaine 'mega labs', signaling crackdown UPDATED Nov 14, 2024, 12:36 PM ...

Now he has been jailed for 20 years for masterminding an international cocaine smuggling operation where the drugs were hidden in a shipment of bananas, and setting up a drugs factory in England.

Bolivia is becoming a "strategic hub and the main supplier of cocaine in the Southern Cone of South America," said Reyes. The Amazon region, in the North and East of the country, is increasingly ...

Breaking with the past narrative that the production of readily consumable cocaine within its borders was limited, Bolivia has taken substantial actions to counter the production of cocaine within ...

Regional News Bolivia hardens tone on cocaine ‘mega labs’, signaling crackdown Minister of Government Eduardo del Castillo By Stabroek News September 3, 2023 ...

By Monica Machicao LA PAZ (Reuters) - In a break with the past, Bolivia's government has acknowledged that the country is becoming a production hub for cocaine rather than a mere transport hub and ...