Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Bolivian President Luis Arce reaffirmed the nation's commitment to the legal uses of coca leaf, claiming that 'it is not cocaine.' During the National Acullico Day event in La Paz on January 11 ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

Route 36 in La Paz, Bolivia, is renowned for being the world’s only cocaine bar. But what is it really like to spend an evening there? One woman reports on an eye ...

Within this trio, Bolivia—second to Peru as a producer of coca leaf and to Colombia as a producer of refined cocaine—has been the largest recipient of U.S. counternarcotics aid. The impact of ...

“Bolivia undertook more or less ten years ago ... and insisted authorities should tackle the mafias behind the illegal cocaine business. Hence the importance of removing “the coca leaf ...

In a tropical corner of Bolivia, on a compound owned by a radio station that caters to growers of the plant often used to make cocaine, a former president is ...

Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru are known to use coca for cocaine production. However, since the Morales administration, the country decreases its cultivation, according to the United Nations Office ...

We asked. 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.

Bolivia is one of the top cultivators of coca plants – from which cocaine is derived – along with Peru and Colombia. The plants are then usually exported to Colombia, where roughly two thirds ...

She says she is succeeding. Argentina has grown in importance as a transit hub for cocaine as production from Peru and Bolivia has flowed down key waterways and out through river ports such as ...