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

Peru's land dedicated to coca cultivation has decreased for the second year in a row by 8.2% in 2024, reaching 89,755 ...

Peru's coca cultivation area decreased for the second year in 2024 by 29% compared to 2023. The area now stands at 89,755 ...

Related: Nazca child ingested psychoactive cactus just before ceremonial death in ancient Peru Cocaine is extracted from the leaves of coca plant (Erythroxylum coca), a bush native to South ...

Bolivia is the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Increasingly, the groups are smuggling coca paste — cheap, unrefined cocaine - to laboratories as far away as Italy and the ...

Cocaine export revenues rose to $18.2 billion in 2022 from $12.4 billion in 2021, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Economics, which predicted that they would surpass oil revenues, the country ...

In a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press, the agency cited U.S. government figures showing that as coca cultivation in Bolivia doubled from 2006 to 2021, illicit cocaine ...

Wearing camouflage gear, body armour, and carrying extra magazines of ammunition on their chests for their M16 machine guns, they surround a cocaine lab. The planning takes months; the labs can ...

TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab. But this ...

Global cocaine production reached a record of an estimated 3,708 tons in 2023, up 300% over the last decade, according to the UNODC’s 2025 World Drug Report published Thursday. That makes it the ...