Colombia’s estimated cocaine production reaches new record high
Colombia’s estimated potential coca increased 24% to 1,738 metric tons between 2021 and last year, according to the United Nations drug agency UNODC. This increase is partly due to a…
Colombia’s estimated potential coca increased 24% to 1,738 metric tons between 2021 and last year, according to the United Nations drug agency UNODC. This increase is partly due to a…
Farmers from multiple parts of Colombia say cocaine sales have collapsed after a surge in the production of the illicit drug. In an interview, coca farmers’ representative Leidy Diaz told…
The area used for coca cultivation and Colombia’s potential cocaine production soared to record heights in 2021, according to the United Nations. In its annual report, the UN’s Office on…
Colombia’s police suspended forcibly eradicating coca, the base ingredient of cocaine. The historic decision was announced by the director of the National Police, director General Henry Sanabria. Authorities ended the…
Colombia is the world’s #1 producer of cocaine, according to both the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United States’ Department of State. While nobody exactly…
Indigenous authorities in southwest Colombia said they have detained a member of a drug trafficking group who admitted to assassinating an indigenous leader. The alleged drug trafficker was detained on…
“Narcos” shot and injured an indigenous governor and at least 21 others who were removing coca from their reserve in southwest Colombia on Thursday, according to local authorities. In response…
Colombia’s justice minister took another step towards the aerial spraying of coca, which scholars believe will condemn the country to a new cycle of extreme violence. The decree that regulates…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque vowed to resume the aerial spraying of coca after taking office in 2018 and has gloriously failed to do so ever since. Duque has embarrassed and…