Cocaine growth has continued to decline in Colombia and Bolivia. Colombian police personnel from an anti-narcotics unit custody an illegal laboratory producing cocaine hydrochloride. AFP/Getty Images ...

(Bloomberg) -- Cocaine is set to become Colombia’s main export, overtaking oil, as production of the narcotic continues to expand as the government take a more lenient policy regarding drugs, ...

What is believed to be the largest cocaine production laboratory ever found in Portugal was recently dismantled, highlighting how the drug is being produced more widely and in greater quantities in ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that “cocaine is no worse than whiskey” as he suggested the global cocaine industry could be “easily dismantled” if the drug was legalized worldwide.

Coca cultivation reached an all-time high in Colombia last year, the U.N. said, as the administration of President Gustavo Petro struggles to reduce poverty in remote areas and contain armed groups ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” Coca-plant cultivation has shot up in South America ...

Even as Trump uses counternarcotics to justify blowing up small boats, his aid cuts will be a boon for Peru’s cocaine ...

Increased cocaine production delivered an extra $25 billion in earnings to transnational organized crime in 2024, ensuring greater criminal sophistication and state penetration which, combined with a ...

Cocaine production in Colombia has reached record highs for the fourth consecutive year, potentially outpacing oil as the top export. President Gustavo Petro faces intense criticism as crime rates ...

Global cocaine production reached an all-time high in 2017, breaking the previous year's record by 25 percent, the UN drugs and crime agency said Wednesday in its annual report, as production soars in ...

Cocaine production has risen in this politically unstable country, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that international assistance is immediately needed to wean poor farmers from growing drug ...