An exhaustive link of news articles about the successes, challenges and controversies of coca farming.
Aromatic plants that heal the social fabric in the Colombian Amazon. The Asociación de Mujeres Cimientos del Hogar, in the department of Caquetá, is betting on these products in a place where extensive cattle ranching and illicit crops bleed the landscape and the economy.
- El Espectador, 30 April 2021
Victims of the spraying of the pesticide, Agent Orange - over 19 million gallons, in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, are still suing Bayer/Monsanto (and Dow Chemical) for health problems such as cancer due to the extremely toxic ingredient in Agent Orange, dioxin
- New York Times, 29 April 2021
The Biden administration plans to propose banning menthol cigarettes, an action that has been long sought by public health and civil rights groups, after decades of marketing aimed at Black smokers, because they are designed to be more addictive.
- New York Times, 28 April 2021
Glyphosate: more than organizations request a hearing at the IACHR to prevent its use in Colombia. For organizations, the review becomes essential in order to prevent more people and communities from being affected by aerial spraying with glyphosate.
- El Universal, 28 April 2021
The increase in coca crops in Colombia is not due to the prohibition of spraying.
- El Tiempo, 27 April 2021
Drug trafficking: everyone's enemy in Colombia. The Minister of Justice defends the use of glyphosate and as a strategy against drug trafficking.
- El Tiempo, 26 April 2021
Cheap, legal and everywhere: how food companies get us addicted on junk food such as sugary beverages
- NPR, 26 April 2021
Hidden powers, drug mansions and gangs behind the conflict in Cauca, Colombia. Mexican drug lords tell him ‘Caucakistan’; every 24 hours they kill 2 people, and this year there have been 5 massacres.
- El Tiempo, 25 April 2021
Illegal groups that want to exacerbate violence in Cauca. In the north and east of the department of Cauca, the war revolves around the cultivation of genetically transformed marijuana, some coca crops and illegal mining.
- El Pais, 25 April 2021
Mushroom coffee for immune support. Supplements for inflammation. And psychedelics promising relief from serious ailments. Mushrooms are everywhere, and investors are paying attention.
- New York Times, 24 April 2021
In Nuquí, Colombia, violence threatens tourism. The municipality of Choco also suffers the ravages of the pandemic that in 2020 resulted in receiving only 20% of the visitors who arrive each year. In addition, the presence of the Gulf Clan and the Eln frightens the inhabitants.
- El Espectador, 22 April 2021
Why resume spraying with glyphosate in Colombia if voluntary substitution works?
- El Pais, 21 April 2021
ENG Resuming spraying leaves farmers without options again. If the fumigation with glyphosate is resumed, the main points of Point 4 of the Peace Agreement would be breached and the State would continue to ignore the suffering of the areas most affected by the armed conflict.
- El Espectador, 20 April 2021
A rare wild coffee species, Coffea stenophylla, has a flavor similar to Arabica coffee, a greater tolerance to higher temperatures, and grows under the same range of key climatic conditions as robusta
- Sci News, 20 April 2021
How governments subsidize obesity in their countries, harming their citizens, through subsidies and tax breaks for the farming of sugar
- Am. Institute for Economic Research, 20 April 2021
In Canada, most producers of marijuana are still reporting that they are suffering from staggering financial losses, 2.5 years after legalization.
- New York Times, 18 April 2021
"Magic Mushroom" compound may work just as well as antidepressants, according to a small study.
- Corta por lo Sano, 15 April 2021
26 thousand hectares of illicit crops eradicated in 2021 is the goal established by the National Government for the first stage of glyphosate fumigations, once aerial spraying is resumed in Colombia.
- El Pais, 14 April 2021
Dietary cocoa improves health of obese mice, and likely has implications for humans
- EurekaAlert, 14 April 2021
ABC's of the decree that regulates aerial spraying of illicit crops in Colombia. The National Narcotics Council will be the one that defines when and where the precision spraying established in the new regulations will begin.
- El Pais, 13 April 2021
A study carried out by the University of Granada indicates that smoking cannabis significantly alters key visual functions, such as visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, three-dimensional vision (stereopsis), the ability to focus, and glare sensitivity.
- EurekaAlert, 13 April 2021
This is how the satellite and aerial reconnaissance network works to detect coca in Colombia, the Integrated Information and Monitoring System (Siima).
- El Tiempo, 12 April 2021
Colombia's military meddles by releasing alleged intelligence documents claiming that a victim of former President Alvaro Uribe's alleged fraud and bribery practices is a former FARC guerrilla
- Colombia Reports, 12 April 2021
According to Senator Feliciano Valencia, a native Colombian leader from Cauca, reported the murder of four people in Santander de Quilichao, a municipality in the north of the province. The massacre is the 26th so far this year. The mass killings would have cost the lives of 99 people so far this year.
- Colombia Reports, 08 April 2021
The justice minister of Colombia, Wilson Ruiz, on Tuesday stripped the judicial branch of powers that force the increasingly authoritarian President Ivan Duque to abide by the law.
- COlombia Reports, 07 April 2021
The drivers of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Livestock, crops for illicit use (coca), agricultural activities and mining: this has been the transformation of the Amazon rainforest in the last century.
- El Tiempo, 06 April 2021
A political ally of President Ivan Duque sabotaged a ceasefire with Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group, the ELN, according to former President Juan Manuel Santos. Allegedly, "this official was Angelino Garzon", the former vice-president of Duque's political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe.
- Colombia Reports, 06 April 2021
The government of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, will collaborate with Mexico and Colombia to ensure that the fight against drug production and trafficking adheres to compliance with the law and respect for human rights.
- El Espectador, 01 April 2021
Aa leader of sugarcane agriculture workers in the Valley is assassinated. There is rejection of the crime of the trade unionist Carlos Alberto Vidal, in Florida, Colombia.
- El Tiempo, 30 March 2021
The failure of peace and security in Cauca. Dissidents, criminal gangs, neo-paramilitaries and common crime plague the department. The implementation of the Havana Accords is in debt. What is the way out? Some of the region's politicians speak.
- El Espectador, 29 March 2021
Forced eradication of coca in Colombia, a history of complaints and questionable statistics.
- Voragine, 29 March 2021
How much salt and sugar do you consume? Keep in mind that its excess can affect health. These two ingredients, essential in the diet around the world, have high consumption rates that lead to serious pathologies.
- Semana, 27 March 2021
Despite a 2016 peace deal with the FARC, Colombia’s long internal conflict continues (partly because the government didn't keep its promise to find alternatives to coca farming). Seldom has that been as evident as this month, when the government bombed a rebel camp full of young people.
- New York Times, 27 March 2021
The world is facing a coffee deficit in a supply chain 'nightmare', as freight disruptions lead to tight supply as demand rebounds
- Bloomberg, 23 March 2021
Phenpromethamine, a stimulant drug from the era of World War II, is discovered in weight loss supplements in the United States. It has never been approved for oral use, along with deterenol, another stimulant popular in weight loss supplements.
- Live Science, 23 March 2021
Chocolate entre Amigas, the Chaparralunas Women's Network for Peace, the Cacao Producers Association (Asocamet) and the Planadas Youth platform are some of the projects in Meta, Nariño and Tolima that work on the social and economic transformation of the regions.
- El Espectador, 23 March 2021
In a recently published letter from the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection, to the President of Colombia, related to Law 1787 and Decree 613, the Ministry calls for modifications that would allow for the exportation of dry flowers of the cannabis plant
- Global Newswire, 22 March 2021
President Biden criticized for supporting a "misguided" plan to poison the coca fields of Colombia by the aerial spraying of glyphosate
- Vice World News, 19 March 2021
The opioid drug trafficking family, the Sackler family, agrees to pay $4.2 billion as part of a plan to dissolve the opioid drug trafficking company, and OxyContin manufacturer, Purdue Pharma
- CNN Business, 16 March 2021
The US sees a direct relationship between peace and eradicating drug crops. The embassy and congressmen emphasize that it is the most promising and sustainable strategy in the long run.
- El Tiempo, 15 March 2021
Lawmakers in Mexico are on the verge of legalizing marijuana, but economists and industry analysts warn against expecting much monetary benefit. Recently, the marijuana industry in Canada, and companies such as Canopy Growth, have struggled to be profitable.
- New York Times, 13 March 2021
The forced eradication of coca could undermine peace in Colombia
- World Politics Review (locked), 11 March 2021
Mexico is preparing to legalize marijuana and become the largest market in the world. Lawmakers passed a bill to legalize recreational cannabis, a divisive proposal in a country marked by a deadly war on drugs.
- New York Times, 10 March 2021
A federal prosecurot in New York accused Juan Orlando Hernández, presidente de Honduras, as a collaborator in activities to traffic tons of cocaine to the United States.
- El Pais, 09 March 2021
Ensuring quality and safety, the challenge of medicinal cannabis in Colombia. Medicines need to go through the strict approval processes established by the different regulatory agencies.
- El Espectador, 07 March 2021
Puff Bar, an e-cigarette nicotine drug trafficker, schemes to avoid FDA regulation by using synthetic nicotine, since the FDA mostly regulates tobacco-derived uses of nicotine
- Wall Street Journal, 02 March 2021
Colombia's most powerful bankers, including bankers Luis Carlos Sarmiento and Jaime Gilinski, have converted some of the country's leading news media into platforms that defend the interests of suspected mafia figures, news media such as El Tiempo and Semana.
- Colombia Reports, 02 March 2021
Movie review: "The United States versus Billie Holiday" - a hectic biopic portrays the singer as a victim of abuse, addiction and government persecution, a persecution led by Harry Anslinger, the founder of the FBN/DEA who drove Billie Holiday to death, and ironically, died of a drug overdose himself
- New York Times, 25 February 2021
As a measure of the failure of cocaine drug policies, police in Germany and Belgium seize 23 tons of cocaine in the ports of Hamburg
- CNN, 24 February 2021
The leadership of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca) of La Paz, Bolivia, announced yesterday that it was determined to reinforce the vigil that they maintain in the Villa Fátima market, to avoid a police intervention instructed by court order.
- Pagina Siete, 24 February 2021
The export of chocolate made in Bolivia is still low, as the sector still faces difficulties in transport, logistics and certifications that make the product more expensive.
- La Razon, 24 February 2021
How six large business associations control the government of Colombia, including Asobancaria, the bankers' association controlled by the third large banking groups: Grupo Aval, Bancolombia and GNB Sudameris
- Colombia Reports, 18 February 2021
Columnist Margarita Rosa said on Twitter that she resigned from El Tiempo because she “found it increasingly difficult to self-censor feelings to confront” the newspaper’s controversial owner and banking mogul Luis Carlos Sarmiento.
- Colombia Reports, 17 February 2021
In Bolivia, Adepcoca in emergency receives support from sectors and announces roadblocks. The leadership of the coca growers of the Yungas announced permanent mobilizations since Wednesday before the announcement of the intervention of the Police, after a court ruling.
- Pagina Siete, 15 February 2021
The Bolivian MAS government has just signed agreements with three universities to advance coca industrialization projects, different from what is already being done in the country illegally but with so much success that government wants to join in.
- El Diario, 12 February 2021
Buenaventura, Colombia's biggest port city on the Pacific Coast, will always be subjected to mafia terror until "the state takes control". Two rival factions of organized crime groups have greatly increased violence in the city. [The port will be important for exports of legal coca products.]
- Colombia Reports, 03 February 2021
The drug trafficking consulting firm, McKinsey, will pay U.S. states $573 million for the advice it gave to opioid drug trafficking companies such as Purdue Pharma that 'legally' created the opioid crisis plaguing the United States
- New York Times, 04 February 2021
The drug trafficking consulting firm, McKinsey, will pay U.S. states $573 million for the advice it gave to opioid drug trafficking companies such as Purdue Pharma that 'legally' created the opioid crisis plaguing the United States
- Wall Street Journal, 04 February 2021
The top bankers in Colombia - Sarmiento, Gilinski, Ardila - could face 4 years in prison if prosecuted, but evidence of tax evasion is ignored by their allies in the government
- Colombia Reports, 01 February 2021
The government policy of Colombia to maintain a monopoly on the production and sales of hard alcohol products, such as the country's most popular - aguardiente, causes much organized crime
- Economist, 30 January 2021
While nitrous oxide is a legal recreational drug in the United States, and is the tenth most popular drug in the world, and its abuse is rapidly rising. Meanwhile, no one can drink coca tea which has no problems of abuse.
- New York Times, 30 January 2021
Those eating fried foods increased their risk of heart disease, stroke, heart failure and premature death. [None of these problems occur when drinking coca tea.]
- New York Times, 22 January 2021
Corporate media in Colombia are participating in what are possibly illegal intelligence operations that are trying to criminalize government critics, using multiple “intelligence reports” they received from the government that are not corroborated by any evidence
- Colombia Reports, 22 January 2021
The signatories of the Peace Agreement in Cuaca, Colombia - the FARC ex-combatants - joined together to publish a catalog with all the productive initiatives that they are executing, despite the 42 assassinations of ex-guerrillas in this region.
- El Espectador, 17 January 2021
Opinion: On the need for a coca tax in Bolivia when sales exceed 300 million dollars a year. Should the coca growing sector pay taxes for the coca leaf? For production or for marketing?
- Pagina Siete, 17 January 2021
President Biden will nominate Samantha Power as director of the US Agency for International Development. She played an important role in the failed intervention, by bombing, in Libya in 2011. She later advocated for US intervention in Syria.
- AntiWar.com, 13 January 2021
Three coca growers from Bolivia's Adepcoca were injured fleeing a tear gas blast. A group of coca growers, according to the complaint, wanter to enter one of the warehouses of the coca marketing building, where they would have exploded a tear gas canister.
- Pagina Siete, 13 January 2021
Gonzalo Cardona Molina, environmental leader, coordinator of the ProAves Andean Parrot Reserve since 1998 and guardian of the yellow-eared parrot, was assassinated in the jurisdiction of La Unión, rural area of Tuluá.
- El Pais, 11 January 2021
Federal prosecutors in the United States alleged that Juan Orlando Hernandez, the president of Honduras, received millions of dollars from drug traffickers to help export tons of cocaine to the United States.
- Wall Street Journal, 11 January 2021
Groups related to Bolivia's ruling party, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), tried to take over three institutions, including the offices of the Coca Producers Association (Adepcoca) in La Paz. Cocaleros led by Elena Flores threw dynamite and repelled stones with metal shields.
- Pagina Siete, 08 January 2021
Letter to the editor: Walmart's denial of the drug trafficking of opioids, "we were just fulfilling legal prescriptions", is false. Federal law requires pharmacists to evaluate prescribed medication to ensure it is "appropriate, medically necessary, and not likely to result in adverse events".
- Wall Street Journal, 07 January 2021
Grupo Aval, Colombia's largest banking corporation, fined for bribing government officials with Odebrecht in order to win rights to construct the country's biggest infrastructure project, Ruta del Sol II. This fine is months after Grupo Aval was fined for evading money laundering regulations.
- Colombia Reports, 05 January 2021
The E.P.A. has finalized a so-called transparency plan that it says will improve the credibility of science, but is meant to shield the drug traffickers of Big Tobacco from analysis of how smoking kills.
- New York Times, 05 January 2021
The degenerate banking system in Colombia is impeding the country’s economic recovery as entrepreneurs are blacklisted by banks who are waiting for the approval of a grace period for past debts
- Colombia Reports, 04 January 2021
Mexico is ready to become the largest legal marketplace for cannabis in the world, legalizing the marijuana industry throughout its supply chain, from farming to distribution and consumption
- Wall Street Journal, 29 December 2020
Manual Alonso, a former FARC combatant, was assassinated in the rural area of Miranda, Cauca. He was part of the peace process between the Farc and the National Government, confirmed members of the Farc party.
- El Pais, 28 December 2020
The dirtiest little secret of why the drug "wars" never end: corruption of law enforcement agencies on both sides of the U.S. and Mexican border that cooperate with drug traffickers - resulting in tens of billions of dollars spent in recent decades and zero results achieved (except for the deaths of many innocent people)
- Gatestone Institute, 23 December 2020
The senator of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) Leonardo Loza affirmed that the coca producers in Bolivia will be the ones who should debate the tax for the sector "if one day" they pay, and not the politicians, since he considered that there are those who raise the issue as "revenge".
- Pagina Siete, 23 December 2020
The Amazona Experimental Center (CEA), the cattle farm that transformed environmental conservation in Putumayo. The CEA is the most important scientific research site in the province. Its strategic location is key to the conservation of wildlife species rescued from illegal traffic.
- El Espectador, 22 December 2020
A seed bank to guarantee the food security of La Mojana, which is in the north of Colombia and with a million fertile hectares. A project that seeks to rescue seeds used by older generations has been the best alternative to face the intense rains and droughts.
- El Espectador, 22 December 2020
Justice Department sues Walmart, saying it fueld the nation's horrendous opooid crisis by allowing its network of pharmacies to fill millions of prescriptions for opioids, thousands of which authorities said were suspicious
- U.S. Department of Justice, 22 December 2020
Justice Department sues Walmart, saying it fueld the nation's horrendous opooid crisis by allowing its network of pharmacies to fill millions of prescriptions for opioids, thousands of which authorities said were suspicious
- New York Times, 22 December 2020
In Bolivia, senator in the MAS party and coca grower leader Leonardo Loza asked the United Nations not to rely only on "theoretical" reports to declare that 94% of the coca leaf production that leaves the Chapare de Cochabamba region goes to the illegal market.
- Pagina Siete, 19 December 2020
From marijuana to cocaine: 40 years of US counternarcotics failures in Colombia, a literally toxic strategy from paraquat and Agent Orange to glyphosate
- Colombia Reports, 17 December 2020
As a Christmas gift for Colombia, the Government of President Duque insists on glyphosate to eradicate coca. There is no valid evidence nor the studies from the party of the next president of the United States. And no matter how hard the Duque government tries, the road remains bogged down.
- La Silla Vacia, 15 December 2020
Close to 30,000 coca farmers of the Yungas region of Bolivia are meeting today to elect a new director of the Provincial Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca)
- Pagina Siete, 14 December 2020
The production in Colombia and commercialization of cocaine is increasingly sophisticated and has managed to produce record quantities in the last nine years to satisfy a demand that, instead of decreasing, has increased as never before in history.
- El Tiempo, 14 December 2020
U.S. embassy participated in a DEA plot to discredit the war crimes tribunal of Colombia. In a letter, Special agent Craig M. Michelin of the DEA’s Country Office asked his liaison at Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office in February last year to provide $500,000 for an illegal operation against the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
- Colombia Reports, 14 December 2020
How the opioid addiction in the U.S. fuels a crisis for farmers in Mexico. As American make more use of fentanyl, poppy growers are losing market share and thus are turning to migrant work and organized crime to survive
- The Intercept, 06 December 2020
In contradiction to multiple statistics, the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, assured that "The fight against drugs in Colombia is not a failure." He referred to the report of the US House of Representatives on the matter.
- El Tiempo, 06 December 2020
A study by the Organized Crime Observatory of the Universidad del Rosario reveals that many of the homicides of former combatants occur in municipalities with large areas of coca in Colombia, where the FARC dissidents operate, and in places where there are irregular armed groups in confrontation.
- El Espectador, 04 December 2020
African cocoa farmers accuse "Big Chocolate" (including Mars, Hershey and Olan) of circumventing a $400-per-ton tax meant to help poor African cacao farmers
- Zero Hedge, 03 December 2020
The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs votes to remove marijuana for medical use from a list of the most risky narcotics such as heroin, but doesn't vote to allow recreational marijuana while still keeping nicotine - the most deadly and addictive drug - off of the lists of controlled drugs
- New York Times, 03 December 2020
Colombian Senator Ivan Marulanda proposes new law that would allow the government of Colombia to distribute cocaine for medicinal purposes. Currently, use of cocaine is legal in Colombia, but not the legal sale of cocaine.
- MixMag, 01 December 2020
Colombia's Sergio Arboleda University is the alma mater of far-right President Ivan Duque and notorious for its ties to organized crime. [It has done no research to help coca industrialization.]
- Colombia Reports, 27 November 2020
The investigation into the alleged complicity of former President Alvaro Uribe in three massacres and a homicide is increasing suspicion that Colombia’s banks were sponsoring terrorism. These banks include BanColombia.
- Colombia Reports, 26 November 2020
"Measuring the drug trafficking problem in terms of cultivated hectares is a mistake." For Adam Isacson, in charge of Defense Oversight of the Washington Office for Latin American Affairs (WOLA), one must also speak of the absence of the State, poverty, inequality, corruption and impunity.
- El Espectador, 26 November 2020
The risks of another drug trafficking epidemic: teenage vaping of highly addictive nicotine. "We are stepping backward from all the advances we have made in tobacco control.", one investigator said.
- New York Times, 24 November 2020
How one cacao entrepreneur, Max Brenner, is building a business by using all parts of the cacao pod, not just the 30% fruit part used by chocolate companies
- Entrepreneur, 24 November 2020
Chocolate makers are having a hard time reducing their use of sugar. Regulators want sugar levels slashed, but doing so is technically tricky and a tough sell to consumers. [Coca leaf extracts can help reduce sugar.]
- Wall Street Journal, 21 November 2020
Argentina to allow medical marijuana to be grown at home
- New York Times, 13 November 2020
The five families who own the news in Colombia [news sources which have done nothing to promote legal uses of the coca leaf] - the Sarmiento (Grupo Aval), Ardila (Postobon, sugar plantations), Santo Domingo, Gilinski (Bancolombia), and Char (Caribbean region) clans
- Colombia Reports, 13 November 2020
Investors from the United States, Canada and Germany are interested in the future of legalized hemp in Costa Rica
- La Republica, 11 November 2020
Technology innovations look to change the cacao landscape in Colombia. Cacao holds promises, if the prices remain high enough, as a 'peace crop' in Colombia, providing smallholders with a viable alternative to coca
- MongaBay, 10 November 2020
Leonard Loza, the coca grower leader and activist of the ruling political party Movement Toward Socialism, Leonardo Loza, will be the Secretary of the Security and Fight Against Drug Trafficking commission in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 10 November 2020
E-cigarettes sold by nicotine drug traffickers can be a 'gateway' to teenagers smoking tobacco cigarettes sold by tobacco-nicotine drug traffickers
- EurekaAlert, 09 November 2020
The Bolivian Ombudsman's Office condemns violence over control of Adepcoca (the coca growers cooperative) and calls for dialogue. Two sectors of coca leaf producers staged protests in the early hours of the morning in the vicinity of Adepcoca in Villa Fátima.
- Pagina Siete, 09 November 2020
How the DEA all but destroyed Colombia's peace process for no apparent reason, which has denied a new, legal future for the coca leaf
- Colombia Reports, 09 November 2020
One of the main natural components of ayahuasca tea is dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which promotes neurogenesis -- the formation of new neurons, as well as helps with the formation of other neural cells such as astrocytes and oligodendrocytes
- Medical Xpress, 06 November 2020
The evidence of ties between Colombias ruling party, the Democratic Center of President Ivan Duque, and drug trafficking is so overwhelming that the prosecution invented more charges against the cops who discovered ties between the far right Democratic Center and the drug trafficking organization of Marquitos Figueroa
- Colombia Reports, 06 November 2020
Authorities in Honduras have destroyed more than 100 acres of coca crops in 2020, the latest seizure of 4,000 coca bushes occurring in Iriona, a municipality on the Caribbean coast in the department of Colón
- InSight Crime, 04 November 2020
American voters in the state of New Jersey approved a constitutional amendment to legalize recreational cannabis, putting pressure on neighboring states like New York to legalize as well, or lose sales to New Jersey
- New York Times, 04 November 2020
In less than one year, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia kills for the second time one of the proposals that generates the most controversy in the country: the regulation of the consumption of marijuana for recreational purposes
- El Espectador, 04 November 2020
In less than one year, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia kills for the second time one of the proposals that generates the most controversy in the country: the regulation of the consumption of marijuana for recreational purposes
- El Tiempo, 04 November 2020
Oregon became the first US state on Tuesday to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and to legalize access to hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapeutic use
- CRHoy.com, 04 November 2020
Oregon became the first US state on Tuesday to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and to legalize access to hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapeutic use
- Fox News, 04 November 2020
The declining oil industry in Colombia could trigger an economic crisis with reserves expected to depleted in six years. With oil generating 7^ of Colombia's GDP, and 60% of its exports by value, new income streams will be needed. [Such as a legal coca leaf industry.
- Seeking Alpha, 03 November 2020
Oregon is on the verge of decriminalizing heroin, coca and LSD. Under the new measure, possession of less than 1 gram of heroin or meth, 2 grams of cocaine, 12 grams of psilocybin, 40 doses of LSD, oxycodone or methadone and 1 gram of MDMA would all be decriminalized.
- Zero Hedge, 01 November 2020
In rural Colombia, narcotics gangs step into power vacuum left by peace deal. Massacres and assassinations of community leaders are rising in the countryside as gangs vie for control of coca, marijuana and gold mining
- Wall Street Journal, 31 October 2020
Andrónico Rodríguez, a coca farmer from the Tropic of Cochabamba, and Freddy Mamani, a rural teacher in El Alto, were elected to direct the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, for the Bolivian Legislature
- Pagina Siete, 30 October 2020
Nicotine drug trafficker Juul, with its electronic cigarettes, reduces its valuation to $10 billion from over $38 billion just two years ago, before regulatory crackdowns on its legal drug trafficking. Equal rights demands coca farmers be able to sell an electronic cigarette with the less harmful coca alkaloid,
- Wall Street Journal, 29 October 2020
Young influencers on YouTube are increasingly marketing/trafficking addictive junk food and sugary beverages to fellow children
- CNN, 26 October 2020
Indigenous Colombians (many of them subsistence coca growers), facing new wave of brutality, demand government action before they are exterminated because the government refuses to fully implement the Peace Accord, leaving them exposed to criminal attack
- New York Times, 24 October 2020
Is Colombia's aviation agency, with its ties to former President Uribe, again working with drug traffickers, this time the Sinaloa Cartel (the last time was with the Medellin Cartel).
- Colombia Reports, 22 October 2020
Book review: "White Market Drugs" by David Herzberg - major drug crises are not caused by the black market but in the 'white' one, where the addictive potential of legally prescribed drugs is played done and leads to more deaths and social destruction
- Wall Street Journal, 21 October 2020
The ties in Colombia between the government of Colombia's President, Ivan Duque, and organized crime. The president, who was elected in 2018 with the alleged help of a drug trafficking organization, has granted an increasing amount of power to family members and representatives of notorious organized crime figures.
- Colombia Reports, 20 October 2020
The MAS party wins the presidential election in Bolivia, a year after Evo Morales, their leader and former president and head of the major coca growing organization, was ousted in the last last elections
- Bloomberg, 19 October 2020
Bolivians return Evo Morales's MAS party to power one year after a U.S.-applauded coup tried to destroy one of Latin America's most vibrant democracies
- The Intercept, 19 October 2020
Lawmakers in Colombia are debating how to regulate cocaine. Here is what we know about decriminalization.
- Washington Post, 19 October 2020
Cannabis farmers in Lebanon, many of whom produce hashish (concentrated cannabis extracts), are switching to food crops, which are cheaper to produce and with higher profit potential during the current economic crisis in Lebanon
- New York Times, 19 October 2020
Drug enforcement agents had long tried to solve the mystery of “El Padrino,” a shadowy, powerful force in the world of drug trafficking. They have now identified him as Salvador Cienfuegos, Mexico's defense chief from 2012 to 2018
- New York Times, 17 October 2020
Former Mexican defense minister General Salvador Cienfuegos is arrested in the United States at the request of the DEA, the highest ranking Mexican official to be arrested in connection with drug-related corruption
- Wall Street Journal, 16 October 2020
[IDIOTIC OPINION]: Bolivia flirts with the return of Evo Morales, as a divided opposition could give the upcoming presidential election to a member of Evo's MAS political party, Luis Arce - the idiotic opinion being this will give the country back to Cuba and drug traffickers
- Wall Street Journal, 11 October 2020
"The Government of Colombia is not serious with the implementation of the Peace Agreement": Bernard Aronson, former delegate of the US government in talks with the FARC in Havana
- El Espectador, 10 October 2020
Tumaco, Colombia, confined by war and illicit crops. The forced displacement, forced recruitment and drug trafficking that surround this municipality located in the southwest of Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, often hide the joy of its citizens.
- El Tiempo, 03 October 2020
In the first presidential forum of Bolivia, the proposals passed between the novel and the familiar. The candidate for Acción Democrática Nacionalista (ADN), María de la Cruz Bayá, argued for a tax on coca from Chapare.
- La Razon, 03 October 2020
Donald Trump slammed his predecessor Barack Obama, rival Joe Biden and Colombia's former President Juan Manuel Santos for sealing a "terrible treaty with the Colombian drug cartels ... and who surrendered to narco-terrorists", though Trump has done nothing to help make the Peace treaty a success
- The City Paper, 28 September 2020
Politicians in Colombia seek to have the government take control of the cocaine market, but it is unlikely to happen in the near future
Post-Gazette/LATimes, 27 September 2020
A coca grower (Leonardo Loza), a philosopher and a businessman are fighting for the first Senate seat of the Llajta (Cochabamba, Bolivia). The candidates present their positions on health, education, re-election, complaints against Evo and regional issues.
- Pagina Siete, 27 September 2020
Prices of wholesale tea leaves around the world have jumped 50% since March, as more tea is consumed by people stuck at home due to the coronavirus [an opportunity for coca tea?]
- Wall Street Journal, 24 September 2020
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, certified Colombia's work in the fight against drug trafficking, but warned about the need for the country to soon resume aerial spraying against illicit crops, if it wants to meet its eradication goals
- El Pais, 16 September 2020
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, certified Colombia's work in the fight against drug trafficking, but warned about the need for the country to soon resume aerial spraying against illicit crops, if it wants to meet its eradication goals
- El Espectador, 16 September 2020
Over 20 million people in the U.S. are addicted to legal opioids
- Letter - Wall Street Journal, 15 September 2020
Addicted to losing: how addictive casino-like cellphone apps have drained people of millions of dollars when they buy addictive "enhancements"
- NBC News, 14 September 2020
Colombia sees surge in mass killings despite the 2017 Peace Accord was assigned, one big problem being the failure to provide legal alternatives (e.g., crop substitution) for the nation's coca farmers who are being attacked by drug traffickers and terrorist groups
- New York Times, 13 September 2020
A coca farmer, Leonardo Loza, dreams of replacing Evo Morales as the primary senator from Cochabamba, one of the coca growing regions of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 09 September 2020
The challenge of coffee growers in Colombia: collecting 7.5 million sacks of coffee beans during the coronavirus pandemic
- El Espectador, 08 September 2020
Dissidents, the ELN and Clan Golfo - the groups attacking coca eradicators. This year, there have been 13 murders of government workers, and 70 more workers injured, while these workers were eradicating coca bushes in Colombia
- El Tiempo, 07 September 2020
VIDEO: El Tiempo Verde: impacts of aerial spraying with glyphosate - experts discuss social and environmental risks of a possible return of the spraying
- El Tiempo, 06 September 2020
The Nariño province in southwest Colombia suffered its third massacre in a month. Four people were found shot dead in Buesaco, a locality in the generally calm northeast of the province.
- Colombia Reports, 05 September 2020
Spraying with glyphosate, for eradication of the coca leaf, will not arrive in Colombia as soon and as easy as the Government says
- La Silla Vacia, 01 September 2020
Colombia's defense minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo may have to tell the US government he screwed up the involvement of American soldiers in counternarcotics operations for the second time in three months, because he failed to receiv
e formal approval from Congress
- Colombia Reports, 01 September 2020
Ayahuasca, a vomit-inducing hallucinogenic brew, draws thousands of people each year — including former soldiers — to jungle retreats in Latin America that have become an unlicensed and unregulated mental health marketplace
- New York Times, 30 August 2020
Spokeswomen for coca growers in Cauca, Nariño and Putumayo assure that aerial spraying is useless to face the spiral of violence in the regions. "Glyphosate would be our door to hell".
- El Espectador, 30 August 2020
Colombia wants to resume spraying its coca fields with glyphosate, a toxic carcinogenic chemical, but critics argue that it is dangerous to do so and ineffective
- CNN, 28 August 2020
The U.S. state of Oregon may soon decriminalize the low-level possession of all drugs, with such possession reclassified from a misdemeanor to a violation that is punishable by a $100 fine or a health assessment
- The Mind Unleashed, 22 August 2020
An administrative tribunal in Cauca, a province in southwest Colombia, ordered the National Army to halt the forced eradication of illicit coca crops and prioritize crop substitution on Thursday after farmers from a war-torn area filed a lawsuit.
- Colombia Reports, 21 August 2020
Colombia and US talk big hot air but offer no specifics in announcing a joing rural development plan "worth billions" - funded projects in the past begin
for oil fields and toll roads, not for rural development
- Colombia Reports, 19 August 2020
Jaime Monge, an environmental leader, was murdered this Tuesday in the village of Villacarmelo (it is located in the southwest of the city of Cali)
- El Pais, 19 August 2020
Jhon Rojas, governor of Nariño, spoke with EL TIEMPO after the massacre of eight young people in Samaniego. "Drug trafficking is to blame for the deaths in Nariño."
- El Tiempo, 19 August 2020
Another massacre in Nariño, Colombia: three Awá indigenous people were killed in Ricaurte. The incident occurred in the community of Aguacate, in the Awá reservation of Pialapi Pueblo Viejo. The community in the area speaks of other missing indigenous community members.
- El Espectador, 19 August 2020
U.S. states are asking for around $26.4 billion from major pharmaceutical industry players - companies little different from drug traffickers - to help pay for damage wrought by the opioid crisis, the latest demand in yearslong litigation seeking to hold companies accountable for widespread drug addiction
> - Wall Street Journal, 19 August 2020
Massacre of eight boys between 16 and 25 years old, last Saturday in the village of Santa Catalina, in Samaniego (Nariño) - drug trafficking is the main problem, but much more than that, for example, other illegal income such as illegal mining
- La Silla Vacia, 18 August 2020
Marijuana vending machine debuts in Colorado with more to be installed
- Denver Post, 17 August 2020
Colombia's leading weekly magazine, Semana, and one of its journalists, Vicky Davila, is conspiring with a convicted drug trafficker, Juan Carlos "El Tuse" Sierra, to discredit the Supreme Court for a second time, this time because the Supreme Court has charged former president Uribe with crimes
- Colombia Reports, 14 August 2020
Sandra Ramirez: from FARC guerrilla in Colombia to being the second vice-president of the Senate of Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 22 July 2020
The Joint Task Force (FTC) began yesterday the eradication of coca crops in prohibited areas in Bolivia, such as national parks - the law states that it is prohibited to grow the leaf in protected areas.
- Pagina Siete, 21 July 2020
Opposition political parties in Colombia decided to make politics interesting by introducing a bill that seeks to end the war on drugs by decriminalizing cocaine and regulating its production
- Colombia Reports, 20 July 2020
Drug trafficking Big Tobacco finds new way to traffick nicotine - they hope that new oral nicotine pouches will fill the vaping void
- Business Week, 17 July 2020
In the midst of disbelief, President Ivan Duqu bets on a new coca substitution strategy in Colombia for the 100,000 coca grower families that are not within the National Comprehensive Substitution Program
- La Silla Vacia, 17 July 2020
Colombia's defense minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, said Monday the government is ready to resume the aerial fumigation of coca after local media reported that forced eradication statistics were inflated
- Colombia Reports, 14 July 2020
How the CIA made Afghanistan safe for the opium trade in the 1980s - even though Islamabad houses one of the largest DEA offices in Asia, no action was ever taken by the DEA agents against any of these opium operations
- Counterpunch, 10 July 2020
Colombia's gamble on the oil industry could end in disaster, with oil prices collapsing as the country's oil reserves are depleted
- OilPrice.com, 08 July 2020
How former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, allegedly help launch the Medellin drug cartel when he was head of the country's civil aviation agency from 1980 to 1982
- Colombia Reports, 29 June 2020
A global surplus of coffee beans and deteriorating demand due to the coronavirus pushes coffee commodity prices to 15-year lows, which makes coffee less attractive as an alternative to coca farming
- Zero Hedge, 28 June 2020
Coca leaf cultivation, as well as cocaine production and global seizures, are at all-time highs in Colombia
- El Pais, 25 June 2020
How to create your own bank in Colombia [for coca growers too!]: we explain everything you need to know to create a bank in Colombia: from what these entities do, to how the interest rate is determined
- El Espectador, 24 June 2020
Hightimes Holding, the company which is the owner of the 45-year-old marijuana magainze, "High Times", is buying 13 marijuana dispensaries in a stock deal worth over $60 million
- Globe Newswire, 23 June 2020
Juanita Leon, the owner of La Silla Vacia (which opposes the industrialization of coca), the media godmother who is killing press freedom in Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 21 June 2020
The United Nations offers to audit the process to restart aerial spraying. The representative in Colombia of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Pierre Lapaque, says that Colombia needs both forced and voluntary eradication.
- El Tiempo, 21 June 2020
Coca cultivation and harvesting does not stop in Colombia despite global paralysis
- El Pais, 19 June 2020
Many small farmers in Colombia would like to grow cannabis legally, but a rigid bureaucracy and stiff financial requirements are denying them an opportunity to profit as are the big cannabis companies
- Cannabis Wire, 17 June 2020
Potential cocaine production in Colombia rose 1.5% in 2019, while coca cultivation dropped 9% to 154,000 hectares (maybe!)
- Colombia Reports, 17 June 2020
Potential cocaine production in Colombia rose 1.5% in 2019, while coca cultivation dropped 9% to 154,000 hectares (maybe!)
- El Tiempo, 17 June 2020
Potential cocaine production in Colombia rose 1.5% in 2019, while coca cultivation dropped 9% to 154,000 hectares (maybe!)
- El Pais, 17 June 2020
Colombia to resume aerieal fumigation of its coca fields with glyphosate, which environmentalists say will wreak devastating health and ecological havoc on the vulnerable communities it targets, and on delicate ecosystems across the country
- Sierra Club News, 17 June 2020
Annual sales of the world's deadliest, mildly addictive, drug - sugar - has declined for the first time in 40 years, with less demand due to perceived threats to health
- Bloomberg, 13 June 2020
European companies are earning huge profits from the guerrilla war in Colombia - as the current Colombian government undermines the Peace Accord and restart fumigation of coca crops while no providing alternatives for coca farmers
- The Brussels Times, 13 June 2020
The counternarcotics policy in Colombia is failing - the security forces in Colombia forcibly eradicated 30% less coca in the first four months of 2020, not exactly the 40% increase promised to the US government
- Colombia Reports, 14 June 2020
The acting director of the Carrasco National Park in Bolivia, Roberto Portuguez, reported that a recent intervention confirmed the opening of more than 10 main and secondary paths for the forest clearing, planting of seedlings, and farming of coca plants
- Pagina Siete, 13 June 2020
Police in Colombia have known since last year that the drug lord whose organization conspired with Colombia's ruling party to rig the 2018 elections in favor of President Ivan Duque, drug trafficker Marquitos Figueroa, sought to jail policemen, according to an internal memo
- Colombia Reports, 12 June 2020
How the drug cartels of Mexico helped drug traffickers in Colombia frustrate the peace process to prevent the disruption of coca farming and cocaine production and exports, exploiting the demobilization of FARC
- Colombia Reports, 11 June 2020
Ex-DEA spokesman admits posing as covert CIA agent to defraud a dozen companies of more than $4 million
- CNN, 11 June 2020
A wave of violence has struck Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, in the form of targeted killings and armed groups battling for control of coca crops and trafficking routes — a deadly mix
- InSight Crime, 10 June 2020
How can the renewed aerial spraying of fields of coca with glyphosate in Colombia be stopped? It is proposed to review the institutional arguments in this regard, the implications of this judicial ruling; as well as the main arguments under discussion.
- La Silla Vacia, 10 June 2020
How the YouTube series "Matarife" is linking more and more of the inner circle of former president Alvaro Uribe to drug trafficking and paramilitary death squads
- Colombia Reports, 09 June 2020
Social leaders and researchers insist on the importance of not forgetting the guidelines of the Peace Agreement to implement measures to reduce hectares of illicit coca and cannabis cultivation in Colombia
- El Espectador, 08 June 2020
Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo: "The government will not stop coca eradication in quarantine" - he defended his strategy against drug trafficking, despite calls by social organizations to suspend forced eradication
- El Espectador, 01 June 2020
The US military providing counternarcotics support to Colombia’s government despite its evident ties to drug traffickers is beyond absurd, yet no surprise. US soldiers will be running after farmers like headless chickens, while nobody will be going after the money launderers.
- Colombia Reports, 01 June 2020
The sale of "machucada" coca leaf (packet of chewable coca leaf) also hopes to recover in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 31 May 2020
Peru's war on drugs based on forced eradication is an abject failure – here is what it can learn from Bolivia. Coca production has not shrunk overall in Peru, merely shifting its location, often through extensive replanting, which aggravates deforestation.
- The Conversation, 30 May 2020
The mission of the elite brigade of the United States Army that will support the fight against drug trafficking in Colombia, and that sparked controversy in Colombia.
- El Tiempo, 30 2020 May 2020
Two U.S. counties in Ohio file lawsuit against major pharmacy chains - including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens - accusing them of drug trafficking by having sold millions of opioid pills in small towns while rarely flagging suspicious orders to authorities
- New York Times, 27 May 2020
Copy of the lawsuit filed by two U.S. counties in Ohio file lawsuit against major pharmacy chains - including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens - accusing them of drug trafficking
- Lake County Ohio, 27 May 2020
The United States is preparing to charge Cilia Flores, wife of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, in coming months with crimes that could include cocaine drug trafficking and corruption
- Reuters, 27 May 2020
Police seize 59 bags of pressed coca and detain eight people in Oruro, Bolivia - in total, the bags are valued at 59,000 Bolivianos (about US $8800)
- Pagina Siete, 21 May 2020
Alicia Arango, the Interior Minister of Colombia, put the son of extradited paramilitary warlord "Jorge 40", one of the country's most blood-thirsty war criminals, in charge of victim coordination - a son who "always thought of his father as a hero", according to one Senator
- Colombia Reports, 20 May 2020
A new struggle between farmers and authorities for eradication of coca leaf in Córdoba (Caribbean region of Colombia), growers oppose manual eradication of coca leaf without a social component to help them find alternatives
- El Tiempo, 11 May 2020
Tensions rise in the Chapare region of Bolivia as the government escalates anti-drug operations in the coca farming communities around Cochabamba
- InSight Crime, 08 May 2020
How the Caribbean police force of Colombia got involved in marijuana trafficking business in 1970s
- Colombia Reports, 04 May 2020
The United States implicates the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, in drug trafficking, while it seeks his help on immigration
- Yahoo News, 30 April 2020
The former chief of police of Honduras, Juan Carlos Bonilla, is accused by US prosecutors of trafficking drugs to the United States on behalf of the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández - the brother of Hernández was convicted of similar charges in October
- The Guardian, 30 April 2020
Prosecutor General Franciso Barbosa could be the saddest excuse for a chief prosecutor ever in Colombia, whose duties enforcing Colombia's coca laws - being implicated in the 2018 election rigging plot and now turning a civil fine against the opposition mayor of Bogota into a crime
- Colombia Reports, 28 April 2020
From coca growers in Peru to drug dealers in Paris, the coronavirus has upended the global trade in drugs - and the coca growers in Peru want subsidies just the same as other businesses, since prices for coca leaves sold to drug traffickers are down 70%
- Business Insider, 25 April 2020
Lebanon passes legislation legalizing the cultivation of medical marijuana for export for medicinal and industrial purposes, in order to raise more tax revenues for the government
- Newsweek, 21 April 2020
Opinion: conflicts with the state, the coca farmers of the Chapare region of Bolivia, drug production and the coronavirus
- Pagina Siete, 19 April 2020
Colombia's government acts like a doormat for the United States, and its people do not support this policy, for example the people opposing eradication with glyphosate
- AlterNet, 10 April 2020
How a drug trafficker, "Memo Fantasma", sold property in the "zona rosa" of Bogota to a company owned by the family of the vide president, Marta Lucía Ramírez, because Ramírez received bad/false advice from the-then chief of police, Óscar Naranjo
- InSight Crime,, 10 April 2020
Caffeinated conservation: Colombian farmers in the San Lucas mountains switch from growing coca to growing coffee to protect wildlife.
- New York Times, 09 April 2020
Colombia’s vice-president, Marta Lucia Ramire, broke down in tears on Wednesday during an interview over her businesses ties to a drug trafficker in a real estate deal, relying on the word of former National Police Chief Oscar Naranjo - himself linked to drug traffickers
- Colombia Reports, 09 April 2020
For much of its 500-year history, coffee was viewed with confusion, suspicion and disgust [same past for coca tea]. Coffee has since become a necessity we rely on to meet the everyday demands of modern capitalism [same future for coca tea?]
- Wall Street Journal, 04 April 2020
A new murder of an ex-combatant of the Farc - Carlos Alberto Castaño, this time in Tolima (central Colombia) - the ex-combatant was carrying out his reincorporation process in the Cooperativa Multiactiva Agropecuaria por la Paz (Cooagropaz)
- El Espectador, 03 April 2020
Colombia's weekly magazine, Semana, not known for balanced coverage of the problems of coca farmers, continues purge of journalists exposing crimes and corruption, while hiring journalists who are fierce apologists of former president Uribe
- Colombia Reports, 02 April 2020
Chemists at some of the biggest, and legal, cannabis companies in the United States and Canada are trying to develop a predictable, reliable method to modulate the stimulation of cannabis drug products
- New York Times, 01 April 2020
National parks in Colombia are being destroyed as land conflicts intensify, partly due to struggles over cattle farming and coca farming
- Monga Bay, 24 March 2020
Businesspeople in North Macedonia are prepared to become the "cannabis superpower" of Europe, but are waiting for a slow government to change the laws
- New York Times, 29 March 2020
Francisco Barbosa, Colombia's chief prosecutor, closed his Twitter account on Sunday after photographstied him to a cocaine mafia conspiracy to rig the 2018 elections in favor of his friend, President Ivan Duque
- Colombia Reports, 23 March 2020
Burning coca leaves, spurning leavers - the United States pays for a pointless drug war in Colombia while spraying coca fields with carcinogenic herbicides such as glyphosate, but is less keen to help with a huge Venezeulan refugee crisis
- Economist, 19 March 2020
The illegal nature of coca cultivation is an incentive for its production to take place in the National Natural Parks of Colombia. For the coca growers, the priority is not the ownership of the land on which they grow coca, it is the great profits that its cultivation generates.
- El Espectador, 18 March 2020
Wiretap recordings made public on Sunday proved that President Ivan Duque's party conspired with an alleged drug money launderer to rig Colombia's 2018 presidential election - the bombshell recording proved that the then-assistant of former President Alvaro Uribe, Maria Claudia Daza, was conspiring to rig the election with Jose Guillermo Hernandez, the alleged money launderer and "political arm" of the cocaine trafficking organization of Marquitos Figueroa.
Colombia's coca farmers want viable business alternatives and more sustainable development, not militarization - they would like to stop growing coca but says it’s the only product with enough demand for buyers to come directly to collect it
DEA ordered to return $15,000 it seized from a woman falsely charged with dealing with cocaine, but refuses to pay $5,000 for her attorney's fees
As cocaine production rises, Donald Trump is increasing the pressure to curb it and insisting Colombia should spray its fields with glyphosate again. In remote communities, this revives memories of a dark chapter.
Conflicts over indigenous land grow more violent in Central and South America, including peaceful Costa Rica
Coca leaf crops increased in Colombia in 2019 to 212,000 hectares, while cocaine production reached 951 tons, record numbers according to estimates published Thursday by the US Government
Tilray was the first marijuana company to go public on Nasdaq, but the industry has too many greenhouses growing too much marijuana, depressing prices, and as a result, investors are abandoning the marijuana sector - with Tilra
y's stock price down 90%
Through resolution 315 of 2 March 2020, the Ministry of Health of Colombia updated the list of narcotic drugs, psychotropics, precursors and substances under control and special control, and included medicinal cannabis
Stock prices for cannabis companies are having a lousy week, compounding sharp losses over the past year for the once-hot sector as investors low interest in a growingly commodity-like business
Mexican and paramilitary cartels, are likely factors in the increase of coca farming in Colombia - illegal groups dedicated to drug trafficking control seaports and use light aircraft with which they carry out illegal flights
Gato Dumas, the haute cuisine experts that want to invent recipes to vindicate the name of the coca leaf in Colombia
President Trump 'orders' President Duque to restart the eradication of coca leaves by spraying glyphosate
Former coca farmers from Colombia's "Peace Laboratory" -- the 8000 people of Briceño, fear a return to war if the government doesn't support the coca substitution program that is a vital part of the peace process
On February 21, in the municipality of Briceño, considered an example for the country because its peasants replaced 99% of the coca with other crops, hundreds of them peacefully protested against the government's failure to comply with the coca replacement program
Mind Medicine, a psychedelics-based medicine startup backed by Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, closed a $24.2 million funding round ahead of plans to go public next week
A guerilla-to-entrepreneur plan in Colombia leaves some new businesswomen isolated and at risk - the Colombian government’s reliance on entrepreneurship may make female ex-insurgents financial situation even more precarious than it would otherwise be because they lack the safety net of formal employment
The four Colombian men - "powers behind the throne" of President Ivan Duque: Luis Carlos Sarmiento (the richest man in the country, owner of El Tiempo and Grupo Aval), German Vargas (powerful conservative political clan leader), Alvaro Uribe (far-right former president) and Andres Pastrana (conservative former president)
Colombia ends coca crop substitution monitoring deal with the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime - the UN appears to be a nuisance as its regular reports on progress of the PNIS program demonstrate how ineffective the repressive policy backed by the US is compared to crop substitution
The women of Putumayo, Colombia, seek a life without coca - the coca economy allows them to achieve some financial independence, but also exposes them to risks such as labor slavery, sexual violence, law enforcement and threats from armed groups
Two soldiers were killed, one was taken hostage and a major forest fire broke out in the Colombian Amazon after military efforts to try to evict communities living in the Tinigua Nature Reserve who were deforesting the reserve to grow coca leaf
Two companies in Colombia compete for the glyphosate supply contract for the eradication of coca crops: one which has been almost the exclusive supplier in recent years; the other, a new competitor which reports possible failures in the process
Jose Irizarry, a former DEA agent in Colombia, charged with laundering money for Colombian drug cartels, and charged with stealing money from the DEA
China's strong push into Colombia - companies from China are buying gold mines in Colombia, and are building Bogota's new metro system and much more
Farmers will protest for failures in crop substitution program in Briceño - according to leaders of the municipality of Antioquia, the government has not fully developed short-term and long-term production projects
The ELN, Colombia’s cocaine-funded rebels, are back in action big-time, carrying out more than 100 separate attacks in the last week and its ranks have been growing
The eradication of surplus coca in the Chapare is running smoothly - more than 1,300 troops have been in 14 areas of that region of the Cochabamba tropics for more than a week in order to eradicate 8,575 hectares, a goal set by the Government of Bolivia
Cochabamba: more than 1,300 troops carry out surplus coca eradication tasks in the tropics - the Minister of Defense of Bolivia announced that the goal for this 2020 management is to eradicate more than 8,500 hectares of coca planted in prohibited places, such as natural parks
Silicon Valley investors and big tech companies are awakening to the many investment opportunities into psychedelic drugs for use in mental health care - a journey inside an industry preparing to emerge from darkness
How the next investment wave in legalized drugs will be psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin
Three members of the Nasa indigenous nation were assassinated in Buenos Aires and Miranda, in the Cauca province of Colombia - all three were members of the community guard
Many public marijuana companies in the United States and Canada have only a few months of cash left as the business becomes more difficult
Book review: "The War Without End" - Why in Colombia is more coca being farmed than ever?
National Police in Colombia find a cocaine laboratory on a farm owned by the family of Fernando Sanclamente Alzate, the Colombian ambassador in Uruguay (located in the municipality of Guasca, Cundinamarca)
National Police in Colombia find a cocaine laboratory on a farm owned by the family of Fernando Sanclamente Alzate, the Colombian ambassador in Uruguay (located in the municipality of Guasca, Cundinamarca)
Colombia vows to eradicate a record 130,000 hectares of coca this year, though the UN says 80% or more will be replanted, promising to hire and train an extra 2,000 policemen to cut the estimated production of 1000 tons of cocaine before 2023
How to use the coca leaf for ceremony, altitude sickness, chewing and drinking
[Completely absurd]: glyphosate is the only eradication option against coca and cannabis
How Colombia's government officials, members of Uribe's Democratic Center party, led a political warfare campaign against journalists
The soldiers of the Special Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (FELCN) of Bolivia destroyed 19 cocaine factories, seized 700 liters of precursor chemicals, and found 78,000 doses of drugs in operations carried out in the department of Cochabamba
Santa Cruz, California, decriminalizes magic mushrooms and other natural psychelics at the personal, making it the third US city to take such a step
Coca farmers in Colombia prepare mass protests as Colombia abandons counternarcotics strategy - the government claiming its doesn't have the promised $1 billion to help farmers substitute their crops, while those who did agree to substitute are starving
Evidence contradicts Colombian national police claims that two ex-FARC members, one a coca substitution advocate, were killed by police when traveling to assassinate an ex-FARC leader, Rodrigo Londoño - new evidence suggests the two ex-FARC members were killed by police
76% of the cocaine factories destroyed in 2019 in Bolivia were in the Chapare region. Of 841 factories found, 640 were found in the Chapare. FELCN, the anti-drug force, also detected the rest of the factories in Santa Cruz (152), 45 in La Paz and 4 in Tarija.
A single dose of psilocybin - the psychedelic drug found in magic mushrooms - eased cancer patients' anxiety and depression for many years
Kellogg's pledges to end use of the weedkiller glyphosate to dry oats and wheat before harvest
Southern Colombian province of Putumayo living in terror as turf war over drug trade escalates, with government security forces nowhere to be seen, as drug traffickers fight efforts to substitute the farming of coca for other products
The more than one thousand hectares planted with coca in the rural area of Jamundí will be able to generate for drug traffickers and illegal armed groups, profits of more than US $700 million in the international market this year. This is the loot that organized crime pursues and that has turned into deadly disputes for the towns of Villa Colombia, San Antonio, La Liberia, San Vicente and La Meseta, where days ago five people were killed and two vehicles were cremated; the third massacre committed by armed groups in recent months.
Fumigation with glyphosate in Colombia - a new year with old policies with almost no public debate, and many analysts have criticized the fumigation for several reasons - neither this government nor the previous ones have offered strong arguments against these three problems of fumigation
The Minister of Government of Bolivia, Arturo Murillo, announced Thursday that the eradication of surplus coca crops will begin in the National Parks, which, according to his information, are "plagued" by illegal green leaf crops
London to Lima Gin Distillery, based in Lima (Peru), will be introducing a Mulberry & Coca Gin liqueur into the UK Market
I wish Colombians could quickly investigate and innovate in legitimate uses of one of our flagship plants - coca, perhaps the most promising for our own bioeconomy, as recommended by the Mission of Wise Men
The Bolivian government says there is no date to eradicate coca in Chapare - the tasks of eradicating the surplus coca leaf in the Chapare sector in Cochabamba have no start date, said Deputy Minister of Public Security, Wilson Santamaría
Kratom - America's new semi-legal drug culture, which many use to quit opioids while others use it to get high (in 2016 the DEA had tried to make it schedule I, but backed off under pressure)
The more than one thousand hectares planted with coca in the rural area of Jamundí will be able to generate for drug traffickers and illegal armed groups, profits of more than US $700 million in the international market this year. This is the loot that organized crime pursues and that has turned into deadly disputes for the towns of Villa Colombia, San Antonio, La Liberia, San Vicente and La Meseta, where days ago five people were killed and two vehicles were cremated; the third massacre committed by armed groups in recent months.
More than likely the far-right group "Aquilas Negras", known to attack/kill community activists in coca growing regions, are members of military and police intelligence agencies
Investigators determine that a popular "all natural" pain reliever in Colombia, Dololed - produced by the drug company Pronabell, has high levels of an artificial pain reliever, diclofen - a nonsteriodal anti-inflammatory drug
The number of Americans drinking themselves to death with a legal, addictive drug - alcohol - doubled from 1999 to 2017, with over 72,000 deaths due to alcohol in 2017, at least five times as many deaths due to alcohol as due to cocaine use
The newly formed, Washington-based, International Development Finance Corporation will fund US $5 billion in investment and cooperation in territories affected by illicit crops and drug trafficking in Colombia
Bolivia's Special Anti-Drug Trafficking police force finds 15 cocaine factories in the Chapare region after a 7-hour raid
The cocoa cartel of Ghana and the Ivory Coast is forcing up the prices of
cocoa, giving a pay rise to West African cocoa farmers that will increase costs for global confectioners Lindt, Nestlé and Hershey
The United States government will invest "billions of dollars" in rural development as part of its counternarcotics strategy in Colombia, a top official said Thursday - crop substitution and rural development are more effective to curb the cultivation of illicit crops like coca
The US FDA approves the sale of a topical 4% cocaine anesthetic delivered as a nasal spray, manufactured by Lannett Company of Philadelphia
The Netherlands, birthplace of semi-legal cannabis, risks losing billions of dollars in profits because it is less competitive than Canada and the United States
The president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, is informed that the Colombian military's collusion (the Army's 7th division) with the country's largest trafficking crime group is undermining the government's legitimacy, in a letter from a representative of victims of violence, Leyner Palacios
THE LETTER: the president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, is informed that the Colombian military's collusion (the Army's 7th division) with the country's largest trafficking crime group is undermining the government's legitimacy, in a letter from a representative of victims of violence, Leyner Palacios
Activist Gloria Ocampo, 37, was killed along with another person in a rural area of Putumayo, a case that constitutes the first homicide of a social leader this year in Colombia - she was an activist in favor of replacing illegal crops in the La Estrella village, municipality of Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo
Established at the beginning of last year, the Peruvian startup Futura Farms plans to invest between US $1 million and US $2 million between this year and next in medical and industrial cannabis research projects
The active ingredient in "magic mushrooms", psilocybin, is getting closer to obtaining FDA approval as a treatment for particularly tough cases of depression
The West African nations of Ivory Coast and Ghana, which combined produce more than 60% of the world's cocoa, have banded together to form their own chocolate-coated version of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
Former security chief for Colombian airline Air Cargo Lines claims that the "Sinoloa Cartel paid former president Uriba $1 million to facilitate drug trafficking between Colombia and Mexico"
Evo Morales supported the coca growers in Bolivia, but the coca growers now face a hostile new government with policies that could hurt their farming efforts - but the coca growers for decades have been a powerful political force
U-Haul to stop hiring people who use nicotine in any form, such as cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, vaping, etc.
Brookings Institute report: Detoxifying Colombia's drug policy
The United States Department of State announced Tuesday that it supports the roadmap presented by the Colombian government to return to aerial fumigatio with glyphosate to eradicate the coca leaf
The UN's International Narcotics Control Board allocates to Colombia a production quota of 56.5 tons of high-THC dry marijuana leaf - 22% of the worldwide allocation
The victims of violence in Colombia, after the peace agreement, expect more contrition from the FARC.
Ajayo products (www.andescoca.com), made from organic coca leaf, are a natural energy and food supplement - what champions the initiative are the candies: each one is equivalent to a bolus of coca, says the general manager of Icori Laboratories, Juan Salvador Hurtado
The Supreme Court of Italy rules that Italians can grow small amounts of marijuana in their homes for personal use
In Leiva, Nariño (Colombia), the victims of the conflict await reparation - in this municipality the lack of opportunities financially hurts its residents, who are forced to plant coca to live, and the people say that the government has breached the agreements that they signed
Camilo Romero, governor of Nariño (Colombia), confirmed the death of Lucy Villareal, social leader who was part of the Indo-American Cultural Foundation, which participates in the Carnival celebrations in Pasto. According to the governor, the leader was "cultivator of Carnaval and a defender of life".
Lucy Villareal, social leader of Tumaco, Colombia, is murdered - Lucy is known to be the mother of two young daughters and was part of the Indo-American Cultural Foundation in Pasto
Spanish authorities are sure that they have just dealt a great blow to the mafia, with the capture of a Colombian, Tatiana Peñuela Manrique, the 'queen' of cocaine trafficking in the Canary Islands, Toledo and other cities in the region of Galicia
Miguel Acosta Gonzalez, a former politician and former director of civil protection in the state of Campeche in Guatemala, is captured in Guatemala while smuggling two tons of coca leaves and 572 packages of cocaine in his private jet
Illinois is about to become the 11th state in the nation to allow the sale of recreational marijuana - but some say only white men are set to profit
According to the most recent analysis of the Rural Dialogue Group in Colombia, the precarious conditions of the municipalities with coca crops considerably limit the coverage in education, health, employment and quality of life of 298,000 rural youth
Biodiversity en Colombia, an opportunity for reinstatement - 40% of ex-combatants have environmental conservation skills and 84% would like to work on the environmental restoration of lands and rivers
This year in Colombia the resumption of aerial spraying of illicit crops with glyphosate won't be approved, a tool in which the Government has insisted on using to fight against narcocultures in the country
In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council updates guidelines for drinking alcohol, and recommend that two standard alcoholic drinks a day, or more, are no longer safe for adults
The routes and prices of cocaine-related drugs inside and outside of Peru - US $1000 per kilogram of basic cocaine paste, US $2000 per kilogram of cocaine hydrochloride, and US $ 3per kilogram of dried coca leaf
President Jeanine Áñez de Bolivia announced on Thursday the call for dialogue with the coca growers of Chapare in order to restore the presence of the State in that region with the presence of the Police
From arid, harsh lands in Peru came a superfood that attracted the world's attention. The root of the maca plant (Lepidium meyenii) was the subject of an economic boom but then vanished because genetic material was unlawfully taken out of the country, an act scientists call “biopiracy”.
"There will be war" if they take our land, warn the Yungas coca growers in Bolivia - cocalero Luis Prudencial warns that "there will be war" if the transitional government of Jeanine Añez, or the one who wins the next elections, decides to take "even a little piece" of our land
Bolivian yungueños coca growers rethink having opted for monoculture - for decades, coca has dominated agriculture in the Yungas. Today the environment and biodiversity are affected by these plantations, while producers begin to rethink their decisions.
Anti-drug forces destroy two laboratories that produce more than 1 ton of cocaine per day in Roboré, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Anti-drug forces destroy two laboratories that produce more than 1 ton of cocaine per day in Roboré, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Coca farms in Peru close in on protected areas and isolated tribes, such as the Mashco-Piro, in the Amazon region
In Colombia, the ELN gains ground in Nariño and fights hegemony in Chocó with the Golfo Clan
In Colombia, 81,305 hectares of illicit crops were eradicated this year
The Spanish authorities have just revealed that they found and dismantled a drug laboratory in Casasbuenas, Toledo - the complex had the capacity to produce up to two tons of cocaine per month that were marketed by FARC dissidents
Coca production is worth 18.3 billion Colombia pesos and is double the GDP of coffee - this illicit business adds 1.88% of GDP in the economy, while coffee, 0.8%, according to study
Uribe's/Duque's 'ruling' Democratic Center party on a verge of a split, with extremist senators demanding more power or they will split, while their coalition partner, the Conservative Party, wants to share power with center-right parties in Congress
'Wax', the marijuana-based wax that is raising alarms in Bucaramanga, Colombia - the inhalation of this substance is four times more potent than conventional marijuana
Oscar Serrate, the Bolivian ambassador to the United States, rules out the return of the DEA as a solution to drug trafficking in Bolivia
"Evo Morales is like a father to us" - in the Chapare coca-growing region of Bolivia where the former president got his political start, coca farmers are loyal to him — and demanding his return
Opinion: the secret of Chapare (Bolivia) - the product of Chapare is not the coca leaf but drug by-products that is obtained from the coca leaf, so that the sale of the leaf has nothing to do with honest business, something that may unravel this mystery
A marijuana variety nicknamed 'Creepy' is aggravating Colombia's drug trafficking wars - it is grown in Colombia's "Golden Triange" in the northern neck of Cauca state, centered on the towns of Toribio, Caloto and Miranda
Protests in support of coca growers provoke tension in Cochabamba, Bolivia - marches in the southern zone to support the people of Chapare who try to enter the city center - aa Police had to use tear gas
Football, emeralds and coca, which plunges Horacio Triana into the U.S. - ‘indictment’ reveals links of emeralds with the former drug leader who bought shares of Santa Fe soccer club and with AUC
Cacao exports from Colombia reach over 40 countries, with $80 million in export sales
President Trump reportedly shelved a ban on flavored e-cigarettes to avoid angering nicotine-addicted voters
"The problem in Colombia was not the FARC, it was coca": presidential security Aaviser - Rafael Guarín explains, in dialogue with this newspaper, that the biggest challenge in terms of security is for the State to reach the most neglected regions
Cali, "the center of operations" from where drug traffickers control coca and cocaine in southern Colombia
The death toll rose to eight from Friday's clashes in Sacaba, Cochabamba (Bolivia), between coca growers and the contigent of police and military
There are reports that violent clashes in Sacaba, Bolivia, have left at least 5 dead - the police and military initiated an operation on the strategic Huayllani connection bridge so that Chapare coca growers could not enter the city of Cochabamba
Ethnic rifts in Bolivia burst into view with the fall of Evo Morales - as the country's first Indigenous president has tumbled from power, Indigenous Bolivians (many of whom use and grow the coca leaf) fear the loss of their hard-won political gains, and say a racially tinged backlash has begun
Minutes after Senator Jeanine Áñez assumed the constitutional presidency of Bolivia, the coca producers of Chapare, whose top leader is Evo Morales, spoke out and threatened with forceful mobilizations starting tomorrow - "In the Tropic of Cochabamba we will be on the streets until our brother Evo Morales returns to the presidency, because he is within the time of his constitutional mandate until January 22, 2020"
Colombia and its coca growing neighbors, Peru and Bolivia, have an opportunity to transform coca into a path of licit sustainable development and even refocus part of the growing demand for cocaine, helping us to stop drug trafficking from the root
Interview with María Eugenia Lloreda Piedrahita, president of the Association of Sugar Cane Growers in Colombia, who lies about the dangers of sugar to human health
Coca growing regions, areas of FARC dissidents, and the plan of Colombian president Iván Duque to stop the violence in the Cauca province
Medical cannabis: is a new industry born in Peru? - Although the regulation is not yet in force at one hundred percent, companies have already established and structured plans for business operations in the a short, medium and long term
The clans of coca and cocaine in the Vraem of Peru: the five families in charge of sending drugs from Palmapampa (Ayacucho) to Bolivia
Colombia’s Senate was shocked on Tuesday when hearing that at least seven minors were killed in a bombardment that President Ivan Duque had falsely presented as an "impeccable operation" against dissident FARC rebels that he labelled as "carco-terrorist criminals"
Colombia’s Senate was shocked on Tuesday when hearing that at least seven minors were killed in a bombardment that President Ivan Duque had falsely presented as an "impeccable operation" against dissident FARC rebels that he labelled as "carco-terrorist criminals"
The national organization of indigenous people in Colombia propose "A Pilot Plan for Erradication and Substitution of Illegal Crops" (such as coca) to stop assassinations in the north part of Cauca province
The Colombian government affliated newspaper, El Tiempo, also blames assassinations of indigenous people in Cauca on drug trafficking, but does not report on assassinations due to stealing land from the people there
Colombia's indigenous Nasa people reiterate that they will not allow any armed group, legal or illegal, into their autonomous territory, rejecting government claims that the military could protect the Nasa people
Profits from sales of rooibos tea will be shared with San and Khoi Indigenous communities in southern Africa
VIDEO: Colombia's indigenous people risk their lives to remove illegal coca and marijuana crops
Colombia wants to create an economy based on its biodiversity, after 50 years of civil war, taking advantage of over 300 different ecological zones (article is silent about the legal economics of coca agriculture
Nicotine drug trafficker, Juul, knowingly sold one million mint-flavored nicotine pods that were contaminated - and refused to call them
Why are they killing many indigenous people in the norte of Cauca, Colombia - the region where coca is grown and processed?
Over 42,000 people have sued Bayer/Monsanto over its Roundup herbicides, with the people claiming that the glyphosate in Roundup causes cancer
Colombia's authorities are under extraordinary pressure to investigate who murdered the FARC member who was at the heart of the former guerrillas' reintegration program
Letter from a doctor: "I see patients every day who have had their lives destroyed by tobacco.", due to heart attacks and cancer - which coca tea does not cause
Obesity causes losses of $13.7 billion in Colombia's labor market (about 4.3% of GDP), one solution is to achieve a 20 percent reduction in the calories provided by the food and beverage groups that most produce overweight
More than 500,000 doses of cocaine each consumed each day in London, about 8 tons per year
The successes of the 2016 peace deal in Colombia are slipping away
The Trump administration is moving to restart aerial fumigation in Colombia - the move further endangers the country's already-fragile peace accord
Just a week after the D.C. Council put an additional 2% sales tax on soft drinks, it is considering a substitute plan to place a 1.5 cent-per-ounce excise tax on soda and other sweetened beverages
Powers of the earth: the coca leaf has been used for more than 4,000 years by indigenous people from the Amazon and the Andean region
Investors who have invested over $400 million in the legal marijuana industry in Colombia are frustrated with regulations and roadblocks to exports, as other countries (Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, maybe Brazil) expand more quickly
Amid Trump's trade war with Zhōngguó, farmers start growing more hemp, now that hemp is no longer classified a controlled substance, with 13 states now growing hemp for a total of 285,000 hectares
Nir Eyal, who taught Silicon Valley on how to addict consumers to their apps and cellphones, now is teaching consumers how to break free but is still blaming concusmers for their addiction - the classic drug traffickers defense
Researchers find that electronic cigarettes can cause lung cancer in mice, the first study tying vaping to cancer
Kushy Punch, a vape maker based in California, is caught making illegal products using a petro-solvent extraction process to obtain THC, which can have the effect of concentrating pesticides
Lawsuit filed in Canada argues that videogames are similar to cocaine in that they are designed to addict children by increasing levels of dopamine generated in the brain while playing the games
Coca crops surge amid security vacuum on Peru-Bolivia border, with some 600 hectares of coca being grown at the Bahuaja Sonene National Park in southeastern Peru
Guatemala has destroyed nearly 1.5 million coca plants
How Evo Morales in Bolivia away from traditional uses of the coca leaf, towards the greater production of coca paste and cocaine - the coca dictatorship of the Chapare, expansion of coca into Tipnis, and even cocaine production into the Yungas
Three pharmacy chains - Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS - are pulling the heartburn medication, Zantac, from their stores' shelves after the Food and Drug Administration warned that it had detected low levels of a cancer-causing chemical in samples of the drug
Víctor Hugo Cárdenas, former vicepresident of Bolivia: "Coca and cannabis can be used for medical purposes"
There have been several clashes between the police and residents of Puerto Valdivia (north of Medellin, Colombia) concerning coca - while the Army ensures that the population is "instrumentalized" by those with arms, coca cultivators say they will not eradicate until the Government fulfills its word
Nestle steps up testing after finding high levels of a dangerous weedkiller, glyphosate, in coffee beans
Google's YouTube is experimenting with ways to make its algorithms even more addictive
In Bolivia, the president of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca), Franclin Gutiérrez, through his lawyer, Eusebio Vera, filed a criminal lawsuit yesterday for the crime of breach of obligations against the three prosecutors are prosecuting him
The government of Colombia identified 32 obstacles for the industrialization of medicinal cannabis
How the Blel family is a political dynasty that controls Cartagena, with the family patriarch, Vicente Blel, being recorded explaining how to get rich through rigging elections
The acting commissionar of the FDA says that the agency acted too slowly to avoid the vaping crisis
VIDEO: Peru's coca farmers are encouraged to switch to growing cacao
The military and police forces of Colombia should closely coordinate activities to combat the threat of Mexican cartels - they monopolize 100,000 hectares of coca crops in Colombia
More than a year after the death of the two coca growers who lost their lives in La Asunta, Eliseo Choque and Carlos Vega, leaders and friends demand justice because the Public Ministry of Bolivia has not yet initiated investigations
Members of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca) denounced on Monday that a woman was attacked by officials of the General Directorate of Marketing and Industrialization of the Coca Leaf (Digcoin), when she took coca from the legal market of Villa Fátima (La Paz, Bolivia)
Nicotine drug trafficker, Juul Labs, is under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors amid investigations by the FTC and FDA
The Colombian Government pledged on Thursday to expedite the procedures to grant licenses for the manufacture of cannabis-derived medicines with the aim of growing the industry and having more exports
INVIMA (National Institute for Food and Drug Surveillance - the FDA of Colombia) confirmed that before the end of September the roadmap for pharmaceutical laboratories will be published
Purdue Pharma let its opioid rivals in the (legal?) trafficking opioid pills that were more addictive
Too many students in American high schools are addicted to nicotine, thanks to their widespread use of electronic cigarettes, and teachers and parents are very worried about the addiction
India plans to ban the nicotine-based electronic cigarettes as the global backlash intensifies (against this form of drug trafficking)
Guatemala joins ranks of cocaine producers as coca plantations and cocaine processing laboratories are discovered by security officials
Humberto de la Calle (former peace negotiator in Colombia) writes about the (negtive) influence of Álvaro Uribe on the peace agreement - "Illicit Crops: the truth about the Colon Theater Agreement"
Revenues of US $99 million this year for medical cannabis in Colombia - among the results is that on average the industry generates about 16 formal jobs for each hectare planted with cannabis
Up to 40 mayors in small towns in France defy the French State and ban pesticides such as glyphosate being used by farmers
Cundinamarca (province for Bogotá) is the protagonist of medical cannabis in Colombia - the department has the most licenses for the development of this industry in the country
New York state joins California in banning most flavors of nicotine drug delivery devices known as e-cigarettes, allowing only tobacco and menthol - due in part to 40% of 12th-grade students addicted to this form of nicotine
This is PAZarela, the fashion line from former FARC combatants, made by the Tejiendo Paz cooperative
Sales of cannabis in Latin America by 2023 will reach over $500 million
People addicted to nicotine due to using e-cigarettes and vaping, and now turning to tobacco cigarettes for relief from their addiction - "Juul made my nicotine addiction worse"
Illicit crops in indigenous territories of Colombia: an alley with exit - there are cases that show that voluntary crop substitution is possible
Sacha inchi: a superfood of peace in Colombia - more than 1,500 families in Putumayo have chosen to work with this nut to replace coca
Coca eradication in Guaviare to combat deforestation - Colombian soldiers have eradicated 1,900 hectares of illicit crops in this area
After the recent protests of the communities in Valdivia (Antioquia, Colombia) for breaches in the program of eradication of coca crops by the government, the Public Force decided to temporarily suspend these activities
There are about 400 productive projects benefitting the ex-Farc in Colombia - the projects range from coffee and handicraft producers, to extreme athletics
Pressured by the U.S., Colombian soldiers destroy coca plants while be careful not to be killed by landmines, while civilian workers earn $530/month to work with the soldiers - all funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S>
Peru to start uprooting coca plants in the Vraem, a top drug-trafficking region of the country, a 45-day operation starting November 1 will aim to destroy 750 hectares (1,853 acres) of coca plants
The goal of coca eradication in Colombia has been met by 70% - there are 56,239 hectares of narco-crops that have been uprooted during the year
European Union encourages the substitution of crops in Nariño (Colombia) - 200 families belonging to 7 community councils, which today are responsible for the cocoa production chain
The U.S. FDA issue warning letter to Juul Labs, slamming the e-cigarette maker for claims that its highly addictive nicotine-delivery products were a safer alternative to smoking and ordered the company to stop making unproven claims for its products
The principal cause of violence in the Cauca province is the expansion of coca farming - since 2016, the year that the Peace Agreement was signed, in this region the amount of coca farming increased by 4,500 hectares
While more than seven thousand peasants from the Jamundí mountain range insist on opposing the forced eradication of coca crops by the Public Force, Mexican and Colombian drug traffickers continue to use that corridor to do their drug transactions
Suárez (in the mountains west of Santander de Quilichao): the last "toll road" of drug trafficking towards the Pacific
As teen vaping of highly-addictive nicotine, and federally-illegal THC, reaches epidemic proportions in the United States, experts fear future social costs
The eternal return of coca crops to Bajo Cauca - despite the major reception of the inhabitants of Tarazá and Cáceres to the voluntary crop substitution programs, the peasants denounce that the failures of the Colombian Government are pushing them back to be the first link in the drug trafficking chain
John Hopkins University opens new center for medical research into psychedelic drugs and plants
Germany will ban the use of the controversial glyphosate herbicide from the end of 2023, the government decided on Wednesday - the first limitations on the use of the herbicide will be launched next year
Next for investors after marijuana are psychedlic drugs, with a few entrepreneurs and investors see opportunity for novel mental-health treatments using LSD and psychedelic mushrooms
Germany will ban the use of the controversial glyphosate herbicide from the end of 2023, the government decided on Wednesday - the first limitations on the use of the herbicide will be launched next year
Prof. Luis Fernando Trejos: "The Márquez's announcement is directed more towards Bogota than the regions of Colombia"
A brief introduction to the 14 new commanders of the reconstituted FARC guerilla group in Colombia
Missing FARC leaders rearm, announce ‘new phase’ in Colombia’s armed conflict
Collective land ownership (Law 70 of 1993), under which 60% of Colombia's Pacific coastland is communally owned, is keeping the country's Pacific peoples poor most of whom are Afro-Caribbean (coca is grown in many places in their region of the country)
Colombia's former FARC guerilla leader, Luciano Marin alias Ivan Marquez, calls for a return to war because of what he called the government's violations of the peace agreement, a complaint shared by many former FARC members
President Evo Morales of Bolivia acknowledges that the cocaine market regulates the price of coca - the president said that a part of the coca leaf harvest of the Tropic of Cochabamba and the Yungas of La Paz is diverted to the illegal market for other purposes
After 2 years, Bolivia reduces coca crops by 6% - the cultivated area was reduced by 1,400 hectares (Ha), from 24,500 Ha in 2017 to 23,100 Ha in 2018
For the coca crops in the Caribbean region of Colombia - unlike what happened elsewhere in the country, in the Caribbean region the crop harvests did not decrease
Bolivia reduced coca crops by 6% and calls for equal effort from cocaine consuming countries
In Tumaco, where cocoa has been cultivated for a long time, of very good quality, the illicit coca crops are being replaced by cocoa crops associated with aromatic herbs
The construction of a new deep-water port in Ecuador, near Guayaquil, which will be able to handle post-Panamax ships, will take business away from the Colombian Pacific port of Buenaventura
While President Ivan Duque's former speechwriter is set to run the economic magazine of Colombia's largest newspaper, El Tiempo, the newspaper’s former politics editor is joining the presidential propaganda team
The FDA's new graphical warning labels for cigarette packages are very distrubing - as they should be
The Gaviria family from Medellin: prolific land thieves - with or having had aliances with paramilitaries, and with Alvaro Uribe (the most powerful politician in Antioquia) - now after Colombia's 2nd largest economy - that of Antioquia province
Nicotine drug traffickers are flooding retail stores with sweet, teen-friendly nicotine pods to addict as many children as possible (unlike the coca alkaloid, nicotine is extremely addictive)
Many companies are advertising CBD as a cure-all for everything, but many health claims are unproven, many contain THC, and many contain synthetic addictive drugs
Emerging evidence that armed conflict and coca cultivation influence deforestation patterns - a study in Colombia
The takeover by Big Pharma of the medical cannabis industry, with patents as weapons
The plan to end the growing of coca in eight provinces of Colombia - the UN argues that in one year this goal can be achieved in 8 regions that have less than 100 hectares of coca farming
Lieutenant Colonel Cesar Augusto Martinez, chief of the Colombian Army's anti-kidnapping unit, and nephew of controversial Army chief Nicasio Martinez, is implicated in crimes of ... kidnapping
President Trump urged Colombia’s government to resume the aerial fumigation of coca on Thursday as he certified the country as cooperative with Washington’s counternarcotics efforts
President Trump urged Colombia’s government to resume the aerial fumigation of coca on Thursday as he certified the country as cooperative with Washington’s counternarcotics efforts
President Trump urged Colombia’s government to resume the aerial fumigation of coca on Thursday as he certified the country as cooperative with Washington’s counternarcotics efforts
The misguided effort of Colombian president Duque to restart aerial spraying of coca in Colombia with the cancer-causing glyphosate herbicide
UN warns that coca plantations in the Llanos region of Colombia give five crops a year - report explains why although crops fell in 2018, sowing productivity increased
Six reasons why the growth of coca crops in Colombia has slowed
The inhabitants of the rural area of Jamundí (Colombia) are frightened by clashes between the Army and armed groups that seek to control illicit coca crops in the region
Hectares of coca crops fall, but potential for coca production in Colombia rises - UN report highlights that last year there was a reduction of 2000 hectares of coca leaf plantings
Colombia journalist Vicky Davila is married to Jose Emiro Gnecco, a physician whose family, the Gneccos, are allegedly a crime family that run the non-coastal Caribbean province of Cesar bordering Venezuela, with links to drug trafficking and paramilitary groups
Colombia will buy glyphosate from China to fumigate coca plants
Colombia's national ombudsman, Carlos Negret, couldn’t possibly be more grim when he, governors and community leaders tried to describe the consequences of the chronic government abandonment in the Choco, Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño provinces - allowing 17 illegal armed groups to form
Peru's crackdown on coca pushes illegal growers toward protected areas in southeastern Peru
Camilo Romero, the governor of Nariño (a province of Colombia) who declares himself in rebellion against Duque's crazy plan to bathe the coca fields in glyphosate, with a serious risk to the health of man and the environment
Luis Eladio Pérez, the Nariñense politician, who remained kidnapped in the jungle for seven years, explained his reasons for accepting the political support of those who held him illegally so he can be elected the next governor of Nariño
The government of Colombia is not complying with any of the five court-imposed conditions to resume fumigation of coca plantations with glyphosate
Uncertainty surrounds the protection plan in Colombia for leaders of efforts to help farmers substitute other food plants for their current coca crops
Police are investigating the death of a leader of coca farmers, Miguel Espeo Vargas, who was found hanging from a tree in the Yungas (Bolivia)
These are the five conflicts that exist in the Colombian territory, according to the ICRC - Nariño/Cauca/Choco (Eln), Antioqua (Clan Golfo), Catatumbo (Eln/Epl), Putamayo/Guaviare/Meta (Farc dissidents)
The 'thorns' in the way of the renewed use of glyphosate in Colombia after the decision of the Constitutional Court
Franclin Gutiérrez, the political prisoner of the Evo Morales regime - there is no evidence against Gutiérrez - he is in jail for having opposed the legalization of the coca farms of the Chapare (most of which goes to cocaine production)
The Regional Indigenous Counsel of Cauca (CRIC in Spanish) denounced on Friday that some of its leaders have received death threat from members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, which has alliances with FARC dissidents and ELN guerillas
The Constitutional Court of Colombia (eight votes in favor) maintained the six conditions that it imposed in 2017 before the National Council of Narcotic Drugs can resume the use of glyphosate in the country, an organization that must monitor compliance "in good faith"
The Constitutional Court of Colombia (eight votes in favor) maintained the six conditions that it imposed in 2017 before the National Council of Narcotic Drugs can resume the use of glyphosate in the country, an organization that must monitor compliance "in good faith"
Three points to understanding the Court's ruling on glyphosate - the ruling by the Constitutional Court on glyphosate made several clarifications about the requirements that had been established to re-fumigate with the herbicide
How the booming farming of coca and trafficking of cocaine is threatening democracy in Colombia
Farmers with small palm tree plantations in Tumaco: caught between coca and their debt with the national Agricultural Bank
How the booming farming of coca and trafficking of cocaine is threatening democracy in Colombia
The Constitutional Court of Colombia remains 'split', and failed to decide on the government's request to loosen its ban on the aerial spraying of the cancer-causing glyphosate in coca-growing regions
The Cauca province of Colombia is where they kill more social activists and ex-guerillas - the drug trafficking, illegal mining and disputes between armed groups for control of this region puts at risk the defenders of human rights
Sugary-sodas are still killing more Americans each year than any one illegal drug
Colombia's last-standing rebel group, the ELN, has embarked on an ambitious expansion plan across the northern coca and cocaine region of Colombia, from the Pacific coast through Antioquia to the Venezuelan border
Resurgence of coca in Putumayo reflects Colombia's failed strategy
Colombia's plans to resume aerial fumigation of coca just got less likely, after a key court magistrate advised against it
Illicit coca crops and illegal mining, behind threats to elections in Colombia - the multiplication of coca and the illegal extraction of minerals multiplies by four the capacity of the mafias to buy elections and intimidate citizens
World's coffee growers seek to set minimum price to help poor farmers - growers from Brazil, Colombia and more than two dozen other countries will meet in Brazil to talk about how to get more money to farmers suffering from the lowest prices on world markets in more than a decade
Coca, the illicit plan that funded Colombia's civil war, is flourishing again - Preident Duque's plan to destroy it is drawing opposition
Government of Colombia insists that it is complying with the substitution of coca crops - Emilio Archila, high councilor for Stabilization, reiterated that the Duque government is committed to make effective the substitution of illicit crops such as coca
Cocaleros in Bolivia plan to close all accesses to the Yungas - producers report constant abuses by police officers who arrived in the region
Cultivating sacha inchi, FARC ex-combatants remain living in Arauca, Colombia
Mexican opium prices plummet 90 percent over the past two years (due to rising fentanyl supplies, and heroin production elsewhere), driving poppy farmers to migrate
Guido Echeverri, governor of Caldas (Colombia) - "It is possible to eradicate coca crops without spraying glyphosate".
The transmission of Arenavirus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, is not due to the consumption of coca or fruits from the Yungas of Bolivia
[Photos]: One of the main consequences of cocaine production is the destruction of biodiversity - thousands of hectares are burned by the coca farmers, affecting the fauna and flora of the region of Guaviare, Colombia
Colombia’s intelligence agency accused of plotting political warfare against peace advocates
Coca leaf and cocaine production in Colombia is at historic highs, risking a new confrontation between soldiers and coca leaf farmers
Cannabis oil can reduce seizures in children experiencing severe and drug-resistant epilepsy, University of Saskatchewan study suggests
La Constru’s focus on alliances means that it’s likely to remain a major player in Putumayo (Colombia), where the group controls coca crops, processing labs and drug trafficking routes into Ecuador
Inconsistencies in official figures of Colombia on eradication of illicit crops? Data from the Ministry of Defense indicate that crops are eradicated at a much slower pace than President Ivan Duque has publicly maintained.
Colombia's challenges in the legal cannabis trade - while 46 countries have already legalized production and sale, domestic industry expects more regulation
Austria votes to ban the use of glyphosate, the first country in Europe to do so, with other European countries proposing gradual phasing out of the use of glyphosate
The Government of Bolivia closed yesterday any possibility of dialogue with the current leaders of the Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca), while a judge sent to prison four cocaleros accused of illegal use of explosives in their protests<
Colombian government denounces planting of anti-personnel landmines to protect coca crops
Six coca growers from the Departmental Association of Producers of Coca (Adepcoca) were detained for the use of explosives during the blockade of roads on the route to Los Yungas, according to the report of the Police Commander, Yuri Calderón
Adepcoca has been besieged by the MAS (the ruling party in Bolivia) since 2017
Colombian tobacco farmers are studying chaning their plantings to medicinal marijuana
Political fights for economic control for the four legal coca leaf markets in Bolivia, a multi-million dollar business based on 50-pound sacks of dried coca leaves
The president of Colombia, Iván Duque: "Aerial aspersion using glyphosate is a necessary tool" - for the reduction of the 200,000+ hectares of coca plants in the country
One of Colombia's most wanted drug lords was "protected by the military for month" (his brother-in-law is an Army colonel in charge of recruitment)
The challenge to maintain reductions in the illegal cultivations of coca in Colombia
Opinion: drug trafficking has poisoned the governing party of Bolivia, the MAS
In Bolivia, the coca growers of the Yungas maintain their measure of pressure on the road to the Yungas - increasing the number of blockades on the highway, and a new blockade was installed in the sector called Velo de la Novia
Police partially reopen vehicular traffic to the Yungas, and they denounce violence committed by the protesting coca growers of Bolivia
The apathy of the OAS, and the secretary of the OAS - Luis Almagro, concerning the murders of social community leaders in Colombia
Two more social community leaders are assassinated in Colombia, including Manuel Gregorio Gonzalez - a promoter of a UN-supported program to substitutecoca for legal crops
Bolivian police warn with arrests and prosecutions of the coca growers blocking the roadways in Yungas who are using dynamite
Bolivian police arrest two coca growers in the midst of clashes due to the blockage of the highway to the Yungas
Four police chiefs in Bolivia are denounced for raiding the Adepcoca headquarters
Roadblock in Yungas results in people being wounded and detained - Adepcoca coca growers add support
Removing the blockade on the highway to the Yungas leaves two people injured
Colombia's glyphosate debate: the opposition of the UN and the Catholic Church versus the support of the U.S. and President Duque's alma mater (Sergio Arboleda University)
Science that never came to the drug debate - the annual report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy pointed out the enormous inconsistencies that have existed between science and the way in which psychoactive substances are classified in the world
In Bolivia, the coca producers activated blockades at the Santa Bárbara, Mururata and Elena bridges, which prevent the passage to the towns of Caranavi, Guanay and Palo Blancos - the route to Sud Yungas is clear
Adepcoca maintains two blockades on the highway to Los Yungas
Coca producers affliated with the ruling MAS party request that Enatex be converted into a coca leaf market
Adepcoca reorganizes the highway blockade and closes the roadway to the Yungas
Tension in the Yungas due to the coca grower's highway blockake - reports on confrontations in Unduavi
The new statistics of the United States on illicit crops in Colombia have undoubtedly removed the specter of a possible decertification for non-compliance in the fight against drugs
With voluntary coca eradication in Colombia, reseeding is only 6 percent
Coca crops stabilize in Colombia, says US government report
The US government says production of coca and cocaine is levelling off in Colombia
Adepcoca confirms blockade of routes and that Bolivia police have besieged Trinidad Pampa - at least 25 police cars are on the road between El Choro Grande and Trinidad Pampa
Cutting the electric power of four municipalities of Cauca in the fight against drug trafficking could be a social bomb in one of the hearts of the conflict in Colombia
María del Pilar Hurtado, leader of a displaced community in Tierralta (one of Colombia's northern coca growing regions) is murdered
María del Pilar Hurtado, threatened in a phamplet of the right-wing militia the AGC in Córdoba (northern Colombia), is assassinated
Skyrocketing coca production could see President Trump cut aid to Colombia - production has more than tripled since 2013
Why Colombia should legalize coca and leave cocaine to others
E Government of Colombia plans to resume spraying with glyphosate in "a matter of weeks" - President Ivan Duque and Defense Minister Guillermo Botero, referred from London to the use of the herbicide in the eradication of illicit crops of coca leaf
"Army in northeast Colombia is stigmatizing, threatening and even shooting at civilians" - the coca-rich region of Catatumbo has become a melting pot of armed groups of which it has become impossible to distinguish who is fighting who
The alleged killer of Eduardo Apaza, the coca grower leader of the Yungas (Bolivia), was apprehended in the vicinity of La Asunta, when he tried to escape capture
Indigenous Colombians fear losing supplies of ayahuasca, as "ayahuasca" tourism becomes more popular and and commercialiation leads to bad practices that hurt the reputation of traditional practices
Drug trafficking and petrol: a quarter of Colombia's fuel goes to make cocaine - about 75 gallons of fuel are needed for each kilogram of coca paste
How to seriously reduce coca crops in Colombia?
Located in Chuquiaguillo, the illegal market for taques (50 lb sacks) of coca leaves sells for 2,100 to 2,300 bolivianos ($300 to $330) with the official seals of the Digcoin (the government coca industrialization agency in Bolivia)
Killers assassinate Eduardo Apaza, leader of the coca producers of La Asunta - he was killed with a firearm when he returned home
Killers assassinate Eduardo Apaza, leader of the coca producers of La Asunta - he was killed with a firearm when he returned home
Killers assassinate Eduardo Apaza, leader of the coca producers of La Asunta - he was killed with a firearm when he returned home
The government of Bolivia authorizes, in the Chuquiaguillo zone, a warehouse for coca leaves outside of the control of Adepcoca (the coca growers association mostly not affiliated with the government's ruling party)
The government of Bolivia authorizes, in the Chuquiaguillo zone, a warehouse for coca leaves outside of the control of Adepcoca (the coca growers association mostly not affiliated with the government's ruling party)
Suicide by soldiers due to Colombia's military's brutal training methods has caused more deaths than due to the FARC killing soldiers in Colombia
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the US Congress that the US still strongly supports the resumption of aerial spraying of pesticide on Colombian coca fields with the cancer-causing pesticide glyphosate
Coca growers from the Yungas region of northern Bolivia, affliated with the government ruling party (MAC), announced that they are forming committees to take control of the northern coca growers association, Adepcoca
Lohas Beans is an export company specializing in certified coffees that has just bought 22 tons of coffee from former FARC combatants in Colombia
Colombian Senator, and opposition leader, Gustavo Petro upsets Colombia's sugar plantation owners with a deadly statistic: sugar kills more people than cocaine
Colombian Senator, and opposition leader, Gustavo Petro upsets Colombia's sugar plantation owners with a deadly statistic: sugar kills more people than cocaine
Colombia's ombudsman warns of presence of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel in Caqueta province (southern Colombia) where much coca is grown, the cartel possibly teaming with the Southeastern Block, the largest FARC dissident group
Four members of the native Colombian Awa people have been murdered in the Nariño province (southwest Colombia) over the past week as the community is caught in the crossfire of a drug-fueled turf war
Every day, 30 small planes fly out of the Beni region of Bolivia with upwards of 500 kilograms of cocaine each, most flying to Brazil
In Bolivia, the global deflation in commodity prices weakens the local economy of soy, sugar cane, rice and corn producers
The clashes between peasants and the Public Force in Puerto Asis, Putumayo, for the forced eradication of coca, revived the concern about the effects of the stagnation of the substitution program and the breach of the agreements agreed with the communities in Colombia
Former coca growers - 2,700 families - in northern Colombia are "starving" as Colombia fails to provide them with alternative crops to grow and access to farmer's markets to sell their produce
How Semana, Colombia's most influential magazine, became a threat to (coca) journalism
Colombia's opposition parties reiterated their concern on Thursday after far-right group "Aguilas Negras" threatened to kill "all leftist followers of Senator Gustavo Petro", who lost last year's election to President Ivan Duque
Two days after Colombia's leading "liberal" weekly magazine, the Santos-family controlled "Semana", claims it defends freedom of expression for its reporters, it fires one of its reporters for his recent expressions
The increasing dangers facing Latin America's national park rangers due to coca farming and drug trafficking
A charitable initiative iby Nespresso will help farmers in Colombia's southwestern mountains (El Rosario, Narino) trade nearly 400 hectares of coca for coffee
Colombian coffee growers are in crisis due to the lower global price of coffee
Luis Almagro, Carlos Romero, coca and cocaine in Bolivia
From January to April in Peru, government forces in Peru capture 564 tons of chemical supplies used to convert coca to cocaine in the VRAEM
Study finds CBD effective in treating heroin addiction, reducing cravings for the drug as well as levels of anxiety
Instead of informing the public, Colombia’s leading weekly (Revista Semana, along with La Tiempo, controlled by the Santos family) informed Duque about army controversy against civilians that was eventually reported on by the New York Times
The $34 million airport built in the small coca growing town of Chimore, in the middle of Bolivia's Chapare coca and cocaine region
Colombian Army's orders to kill/capture more criminals and militants are putting civilians at risk, officers say
Colombia's peace deal promised a new era, but the rebels are rearming because the government has failed to deliver promised help
Video released of FARC leader, Jesus Santrich, NOT talking about drug trafficking with DEA agents, which is why he was released from jail, to the displeasure of the US
How the DEA and Colombia'a national prosecutors could have broker the law in attampt to extradite FARC leader Santrich
In Colombia, if coca is regulated, then peace is guaranteed
Coca vendors in Bogota working to destimatise the coca plant
High-profile arrests won't stem cocaine production in Peru's VRAEM, Peru's largest coca-producing region
Denver, Colorado, is preparing to vote on the decriminilization of hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms
Traces of cocaine and ayahuasca found in 1000-year-old shamanic pouch uncovered in southwestern Bolivian highlands
Bodyguards injured in attack on Afrocolombian leaders in Santander de Quilichao (southwest Colombia), attackers connected with the Aguilas Negras, a far-right group that opposed the ethnic minorities in land disputes with large land owners
Colombia's constitutional court believes phones and offices are bugged, with some judges believing that the US DEA is involved, which wants to learn about how the court might rule on the illegality of using glyphosate to eradicate coca
A commander of Colombia's armed forces, General Diego Villegas, on Saturday apologized for the torture and murder of a demobilized FARC guerrilla, a torture and murder that has been defended three times, using at least two lies, by the defense minister, Guillermo Botero
The confidential Colombia report on glyphosate
The former head of Colombia’s mining association ACM and CEO of gold mining firm Minesa (mostly owned by the United Arab Emirates) has been caught on video saying that "communities don't matter" for decision makers in Bogota to approve mining projects
Coffee prices plunge due to massive production in Brazil, combined with currency gyrations, has created a glut of cheap, premium coffee
To the Peruvian government: a letter in solidarity with Peruvian coca growers
A paramilitary group, the AGC, allegedly assassinated a native Colombian leader, Aquileo Mecheche, in the northwest of the country (Choco), half a year after he requested protection from the government
The true influence of Mexican drug traffickers in Colombia - in addition to monitoring production of cocaine, the Mexicans give weapons as payments for security and shipments
In 2019 so far, Colombia has manually eradicated 19,251 hectares of illegal cultivations of the coca leaf
The economy of the ex-guerrillas of the FARC in Colombia - although they work on 144 projects, for now four have a consolidated market
In Colombia's coca heartland (Caquetá department in the southwest), photos and drawings show life between war and peace
Clashes in Peru coca eradication operation leave at least two dead in the Puno region
How the corruption of the Hidroituango dam in northern Colombia, owned by EPM - the state owned utilities company in Medellin, has caused more killings of civilians and social leaders in the area of one of the principal cocaine transportation routes out of Colombia
Colombia and the United States: six key issues to understand their relationship based on the anti-drug fight
Colombia - 40 years trapped in the business of cocaine trafficking
Kevin Whitaker, the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, conceded during an interview with the W Radio radio station that there exists mutual responsibility between both countries for the increase in the cultivation of coca leaf
Returning to coca? The peace efforts fail to arrive in the southeast region of Colombia
72 percent of those surveyed in Bolivia believe that President Evo Morales should resign as the head of the coca farmers' unions of the southern Chapare region, and 58% of those surveyed think that Morales discriminates against the northern coca growers in the Yungas
Why is Monsanto condemned in California (glyphosate) and welcomed in Bolivia?
A study in PNAS finds that the cat-and-mouse game of cocaine smuggling and government interdiction strategies results in a larger geographic area for trafficking with little success in stopping the drug from reaching the United States
The report of the US Department of State once again places Bolivia as the third largest producer of coca and cocaine in the world and expresses its concern over the "inadequate controls" over the legal markets of this bush
How Colombia's counternarcotics efforts lost effect since Duque took office, including the failure of providing support to farmers to cultivate crops other than coca
Some of Colombia's top food and beverage - Postobon, Nacional de Chocolates - industries had/have links to a Medeillin crime syndicate, Heroes Granada Bloc, with Postobon earlier reported to have financed the Arlex Hurtado crime group in Uraba
"Heavily armed men" displace farmers from their towns in northern Colombia, including in Ituango and Puerto Libertador,after government fails to substitute removed coca crops
A leader who promoted the substitution of crops for illicit use was murdered a week ago in Tumaco, Nariño, the municipality with the most coca in Colombia - the communities are committed to replacing those crops, but they do not see the will of the Government to support them
The coca growers of Colombia are confronting stark choices over crops, since for may, forsaking coca for traditional crops has been a costly choice and one they warn they may be forced to reverse
Coca leaf and landmines, the cocktail for the forgotten war in Chocó, Colombia
Days after Duque urged to spray his own people, US jury rules that glyphosate is "substantial" cancer factor
In Bolivia, the legal defense of Franclin Gutiérrez has observed that the investigations of the facts that he is charged with, linked to the death of a police official, Daynor Sandóval, have severe deficiencies
After almost seven months of his detention, the [Provincial] Association of Coca Products (Adepcoca) of the Los Yungas region (Bolivia) returned to the streets in protest to demand the freedom of the director, Franclin Gutiérrez
The civil war in Tumaco, Colombia, now is attacking the leaders of efforts to substitute legal foods crops instead of coca growing
Bolivian coca farmers stage mass chew-in in La Paz to protest against eradication efforts (video)
Doubts over crop eradication versus substitution are crippling rural communities in Colombia
The murders of social leaders in Colombia do not stop - this Sunday, March 17, the renowned leader of substitution of illicit crops, Argemiro López Pertuz, was murdered in the village of La Guayacana, district of Llorente, municipality of Tumaco, Nariño
The anguished disappearance of the son of a social leader in Santander de Quilichao, Andrés Felipe Montoya Ospinal - his father, Fernando Montoya Valencia has led several community processes in the north of Cauca in Colombia
Ex-FARC combatants are "profoundly worried" by Duque's ongoing attacks on Colombia's peace process
In Colombia, the rural coca growers have been forced into the logic of an illegal economy, when then also have rights
Glyphosate en Colombia: a threat to communities and nature
In Colombia, many drinks have more sugar in them than its stated on the products' labels
Of the almost 50,000 hectares of coca plants in Peru, the largest area since 2012, more than 117,000 metric tons of dried coca leaves were produced, 11% more than the previous year
Glyphosate alone won't fix Colombia's complex coca woes
The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, defends in Vienna the legal uses of the coca leaf, calls again for a regional anti-drug trafficking intelligence center, and asks to eliminate tax havens
Is it convenient to return to using glyphosate to stop the farming of coca leaf in Colombia? The viewpoints of two ex-ministers
Opinion: the ethical failure in returning to the use of glyphosate in Colombia
Editorial: it is clear that the Chapare region isn't a zone for the production of platanos, nor uniquely of coca, but IS the zone of drug traffickign, where the government increasingly has less of a presence - it is a dangerous region of Bolivia
The debate between President Duque and ex-President Santos for spraying coca with glyphosate in Colombia - the President asked not to discard any tool and Santos asked to prioritize the substitution
Women coca and poppy growers from the Andes share their experiences (video)
Peruvian farmers are abandoning coffee plantations for coca fields
Colombia's president, Ivan Duque, defends use of glyphosate to destroy coca crops before the Constitutional Court
In the Constitutional Court of Colombia, the Government is almost alone in its defense of the fumigation of coca with glyphosate
The human costs of the forced eradication of coca - is glyphosate the solution?
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB/JIFE) warns of the increase of coca crops in several regions of Colombia
President Duque will tell the Constitutional Court of Colombia that nothing works against coca except for glyphosate
Government of Bolivia defends leaders of coca producers in the Chapare and denies there are illegal groups
Controversy: Cocalero leader, Leonardo Loza, offers cholitas to authorities in Bolivia
Special Force for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (FELCN) in Bolivia prepares for operations in the Chapare; cocaleros deny protection to drug trafficking
Is the DEA trying to undermine Colombia’s war crimes tribunal?
Tomorrow, a hearing in the Constitutional Court of Colombia about the fumigation of coca leaf cultivations using glyposhate
Residents of La Asunta (Bolivia) maintain their blockade of roads against the FTC (anti-drug police) - the people of Asunta decided that they will not allow the eradication of their coca crops, as it is a traditional and ancestral zone for cultivation
Representatives of different opposition political fronts and opinion leaders assure that the justice and the authorities of the Government of Bolivia have a favoritism towards the coca growers of the Chapare
400 protesters clash with riot police in northern Colombia, demonstrating against government failures to help change farms from coca, as farmers return to coca cultivation
Coffee growers in Colombia are exploring the withdrawing of Colombian coffees from commodities exchanges as historically low prices threaten farmer livelihoods and therefore, the health of the coffee sector
Coffee farmers in Peru abandon crops to grow coca, due to slumping coffee prices and delays in certifying organic beans, according to the country's National Coffee Board
President Duque does not agree with the goals of reducing coca in Colombia, how then to help him adjust them? The goal of the National Development Plan is to eliminate 280 thousand hectares, 109 thousand more than those that exist in Colombia. Why does Duque intend to eradicate more hectares than there are?
Aggressive coca eradication threatens voluntary substitution efforts in Colombia
The Chulumani Prosecutor's Office, Bolivia, cites six Adepcoca leaders (including one of Adepcoca's main leaders, Sergio Pampa) for the attack on the Digcoin director, Martín Serrudo
The Council of Peasant Federations of the Yungas (Cofecay) decided to reactivate the so-called "self-defense committees" to avoid further attacks by the police - they demanded alternative projects to replace coca production
The government of Colombia promises to fulfill agreements for the substitution of illicit crops and keeps its word with the 130,000 families that signed commitments of substitution for illicit crops
More than half of Colombia's media reliant on state propaganda funds - the vast majority of Colombia's media outlets depend on 'official advertising' for 40 to 50% of their revenue
Cocaleros from Bolivia activate self-defense committees to prevent police from entering the Yungas - for the cocaleros, the aggression against the director of Digcoin is a 'self-attack' made by the Government
The Cochabamba province, in particular the Chapare region, is now the epicenter of laboratories for purifying cocaine in Bolivia
In Bolivia, the leaders of the coca farmers in the Los Yungas region warn that the government intends to "decapitate" their leadership in order to seize control of the regional association of coca growers (Adepcoca)
In Bolivia, the leaders of the coca farmers in the Los Yungas region warn that the government intends to "decapitate" their leadership in order to seize control of the regional association of coca growers (Adepcoca)
The leader of coca growers from La Asunta, Bolivia - Freedy Quispe - denounces police intervention in La Asunta and the detention of three people
Weedkiller glyphosate, used to eradicate coca leaves, raises risk of non-Hodgkin lymphona by 41%
In Colombia, there is a negative correlation between coca farming and homicides, for example, in towns with coca farming there is no relation between the number of hectares farmed with coca and the rate of homicides
The seven politicians behind the Hidroituango dam, one of the worst environmental disasters in Colombia's history - starting with former president Alvaro Uribe
Desperate Venezuelan migrants turn to Colombia coca plantations for jobs picking coca leaves for drug traffickers
In Bolivia, the association of northern coca leaf growers, Adepcoca, announces a lawsuit against Minister César Cocarico for accusing their members of physically assaulting a government official, Martín Serrudo
Government of Bolivia refuses to create a tax on coca to finance the SUS (Sistema Único de Salud - Unified Health System) and says there is money - the representative of the doctors of La Paz said that a tax on coca, sweet drinks and tobacco could finance the insurance
In Colombia, where gold mining and coca farming are a toxic mix
Putumayo, the first electoral alliance of the Farc with alternative movements in Colombia - a common block that helps them to win the Governorship
We support legal action that seeks to defend the sale of coca leaf products outside of indigenous territories in Colombia
Colombia's power brokers, families and clans - ranchers, businessmen and the narco-elite - that have long been obtaining power through both legal and illegal means, also behind mass killings of social leaders
Editorial: to reach the new goal of eradication of illicit crops in Colombia, it will be necessary to overcome obstacles
The absence of deaths in Tumaco, Colombia, the world's leading coca growing region, is the result of a pact between illegals, driven by social leaders to save their lives
"Rodigo Cadete", a mid-level FARC dissident, is killed in San Vincente del Caguan (east of Popayan), a largely rural municipality in the southern Caqueta province
From today, medicinal marijuana is legal in Portugal
Machu Picchu wellness tour includes coca-leaf reading
Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf
Threats to deputies, the indigenous and journalists in Putumayo
It happened again: DEA agent in Colombia, Jose Irizarry, stole millions, and hosted yacht parties with hookers
The EPL guerrila pour gasoline on the coca wars in Valle province in Colombia
Colombia's chief prosecutor, Nestor Humberto Martinez, manipulated DEA evidence linking him to Supreme Court bribes
No, the U.S. and Colombia will not eradicate 50% of Colombian coca by 2023
Without the invovlement of FARC, the drug trafficker in Colombia more now has a Mexican accent
Bees in Bolivia are under threat from pesticides uses to grow coca
Colombia's coca substitution plan is bringing death and discord to the Putamayo region
Hollywood's lazy obsession with cocaine drug cartels, with Latinos killing each other - instead of the normal, exciting lives of Latinos, including, say, industrializing coca
Seven conclusions about the murder of social leaders in Colombia, including: they are not being killed for reasons of mining or coca farming, but for battles over land rights
E The use of pesticides against pesty insects of coca fields, added to climate change and other factors, threaten the survival of bees in Bolivia, according to beekeepers and experts
Coca leaf farming in Colombia continues being the major worry of the United States
Government of Colombia says it exceeded its goal in 2018 for eradication of illicit coca and marijuana crops
Culture and ancestral art for coca: the value of traditional knowledge of Colombia's Pacific black communities
Medellin's largest public hospital closes, one of hundreds struggling because of massive corruption with Colombia's privatized health insurance program, EPS, with reform blocked in Congress since law passed in 1994 due to EPS companies being owned by in part by, or bribing, members of Colombia's Congress
The Bolivian Joint Task Force of reported that due to its management it doubled the eradication of coca crops in the Yungas, where twice as much was eliminated as in 2017
Editorial: coca farming or banana farming for the Chapare region of Bolivia?
The extreme risk of wanting to replace coca - in the last two years, at least 63 leaders of illicit crop substitution programs have been killed
Senator Feliciano Valencia denounces attack against his brother in Cauca - Germán Valencia, defender of human rights and member of the Association of Indigenous Councils of the North of Cauca (ACIN), was attacked by masked men in his house in the village of Vilachí, Santander de Quilichao
Colombia’s ambassador to the United Nations was criticized this week after abstained from voting on a UN declaration that sought to advance the rights of small farmers who make up approximately one fifth of Colombia's population
The Colombian far-right group, Aguilas Negras, offers rewards to those who kill indigenous leaders in the coca growing areas of the north Cauca department, while dissident FARC guerillas offer protection to those threatened
A double crime: murder of a civic leader, and a psychologist with the Agency for Reincorporation and Normalation, in the Caquetá department, southwest ofthe Valle de Causa
Low coffee bean prices brew trouble for farmers (or those switching from coca to coffee) - the problems are caused by by currency fluctuations that are encouraging sales and production in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, while forcing coffee growers in other countries to migrate for new jobs
From cocaine to cacao: Joel Palacios's mission to save Colombia's farmers through chocolate
Changes to Colombia's peace agreement with the FARC puts the agreement in jeopardy, already trouble due the government's failed efforts to successfully implement a coca crop substitution program
Why Colombia is losing the cocaine war - its lack of support for the rural families that rely on growing coca leaves to survive
A report of the UN Office of Drug Control, about Bolivia, indicates that the volume of production in the Chapare is 2.8 metric tons per hectare, while in the valleys of La Paz (the Yungas) is about 1.3 metric tons per hectare
The U.S. General Accounting Office concludes that despite spending $10 billion since 1999, the U.S. DEA does not know if any of its efforts are working, in the face of tripling of cocaine production in Colombia from 2013 through 2017
Bolivia Says NO, an opposition party, outlines respect for traditional coca activities and normalization of relations with the US
Colombia’s largest paramilitary and drug trafficking group (controlling half the cocaine exported), the AGC, said Sunday that it would redouble efforts to assume control over the country’s main cities in a blistering attack on President Ivan Duque
Second indigenous governor, Edwin Dagua, governor of the Huellas indigenous reserve in Caloto (Cauca, north of Popayan - a coca growing region) assassinated in southwest Colombia in one week
In North of Nariño the a group coordinated by 'Gentil Duarte' grows - the Estiven González front (FEG), a self-proclaimed dissident group of the Farc
Armed men attack indigenous reserve in Ricaurte, Nariño (southwest Colombia) - two leaders are killed and four injured - where several illegal armed groups are vying for control over territory, farms growing coca, and drug trafficking routes
Colombia tries to help farmers exit the cocaine business - and is failing to do so
From coca leaves to cocoa: three lessons from Peru on how coca farmers can leave the drug trade behind
Beset with problems, Colombia's new president, Ivan Duque, shows little sense of direction
In Colombia, the plan to use drones against coca crops has not taken shape yet - the government has been unable to open the tender to launch the pilot plan that the anti-narcotics police proposed at the end of 2017
Travel to the depths of the world of coca in Cauca, Colombia
The Colombia Minister of Defense, Guillermo Botero, announces that without drones, without aerial fumigations, without glyphosate, but only with manual labor, that the government, in the next 4 years, is going to eradicate 210,000 hectares of coca plants across the country
Security, dissidents, ELN, crop substitution and social protest are some of the issues that continue to generate uncertainty in regions of the country at the 100th anniversary of the mandate of President Iván Duque de Colombia
The first civil eradicator of coca leaves, Libardo Itaz Cruz dies after triggering an anti-personnell mine in Tumaco, Colombia
The Attorney General, Néstor Humberto Martínez, was formally denounced on Wednesday before the Accusation Committee of the Colombia House of Representatives after his voice appeared in audios that shook the case of bribes paid by Odebrecht in Colombia
One of the first decisions of the new national government of Colombia was to free, at 97,000 families, the number of families that are taking part in a voluntary substitution program for illegal cultivations such as coca and marijuana
Some 6,500 former guerrillas of the FARC have abandoned their reintegration camps and approximately 2,000 have rearmed, due to chronic failures by the government to facilitate the peace process, the mass killing of social leaders and growing fears of violent retaliation among demobilized members of the FARC
600 more lawsuits, now up to 9,300 lawsuit, are filed against Bayer over its subsidiary, Monsanto, sales of the cancer-causing pesticide, glyphosate - the main ingredient in Roundup weedkiller (glyphosate used in South America to eradicate coca plants)
The best return on investments (campaign donations for government contracts) when buying politicians in Colombia, led by Antioquia province
How misguided American drug policies aggravate the growing chaos and crime in Central America
Glyphosate, the herbicide most applied in Bolivia, used primarily at soybean plantations - but various countries have prohibited its use, such as Sri Lanka and Italy, and Germany will eliminate the use of glyphosate for its farming
The future of coffee in Colombia is to seek a sustainable society and economy [the same for coca]
The government of Colombia will restart fumigation of coca and marijuana with drones, planes and pesticide trucks, using glyphosate
The production of cacao in Colombia in the 2017/2018 farming season dropped by 14.5% - among the reasons to explain the drop are heavy rains that affected the principal growing regions
Benjamin Ramos is murdered in the Phillipines, a lawyer who helped poor clients whose families have been targeted by the police, soldiers and death squads associated with the drug war of President Rodrigo Duterte
The Bolivian government rejects estimations made by the United States about Bolivia's cultivation of coca leaf and production of cocaine
The Bolivian government rejects estimations made by the United States about Bolivia's cultivation of coca leaf and production of cocaine
Colombia's defense minister, Guillermo Botero, said the proposal to remove electric power supplies in areas where there are laboratories for processing illicit crops (coca and marijuana) is under study
Coca farmers in Catatumbo, Colombia are threatened - the coca farmers are requesting the government to extend coverage of the illegal crop substitution program to their community
Coca leaf farming rises by 5,000 hectares in Peru between 2016 and 2017
Gulupa, a fruit related to maracya, is a legal alternative to coca plantations in Colombia
The consumption and availability of cocaine in the United States continued to grow between 2016 and 2017, probably as a consequence of the expansion of illicit coca crops and the production of cocaine in Colombia
The Supreme Court of Mexico issues a ruling allowing for the recreational use of marijuana, a decision that will allow the cultivation and consumption of the plant for recreational purposes to any citizen who requests a permit from the federal government
In a letter to President Iván Duque of Colombia, the Attorney General, Néstor Humberto Martínez, made an unusual proposal to combat drug trafficking and reduce cocaine production - he proposes to take electrical energy away from areas where there are laboratories and production facilities
Drug traffickers are trying to grow coca leaf in Central America, with trial fields found in Guatemala (1 hectare) and Honduras (5 hectares)
273 coca farmers in Colombia sue the government for spraying glyphosate to destroy coca plants used to make cocaine
Drug cartels test Central America for coca farming, with small plantings found in Guatemala and Honduras
Government of Colombia has 273 lawsuits against it for fumigation of coca plants with glyphosate - Ministry of Defense has already had to pay 18 billion pesos (about US $6 million) to those affected by fumigations
Glufosinate ammonium (phosphinothricin) is the molecule that could replace glyphosate in aerial spraying in activities of forced eradication of coca in Colombia
The national government of Colombia announced the policy to comply with the Peace Agreement - among the difficult situations to implement peace is that of the National Comprehensive Program for the Replacement of Illicit Crops (PNIS)
Colombia's war crimes tribunal, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP in Spanish), rules that FARC leader "Jesus Santrich" has been falsely charged with drug trafficking with no evidence provided by Colombian prosecutors nor by the U.S. DEA, and until evidence is provided, Santrich should not be extradited to the U.S.
President Ivan Duque plans to send 5,000 soldiers to the northeast of Colombia, the Catatumbo region that is the country's second most important coca growing region, despite local leaders begging the president not to militarize the region, which has failed in the past to fight crimes
Did a DEA hoax devastate Colombia's peace process, when the DEA fabricated charges of drug trafficking against a former FARC guerrilla leader, Jesus Santrich, who was then arrested - in part because the DEA opposes efforts to help coca farmers grow alternative crops?
Did a DEA hoax devastate Colombia's peace process, when the DEA fabricated charges of drug trafficking against a former FARC guerrilla leader, Jesus Santrich, who was then arrested - in part because the DEA opposes efforts to help coca farmers grow alternative crops?
Nariño, a department of Colombia, at the crossroads of illicit crops - communities and authorities are discussing what are the sustainable alternatives to coca crops
President Evo Morales criticizes the coca farmers of Los Yungas who want to modify the new Coca Law
The "war against drugs" of the United Nations is a failure - the statistics "do not show any reduction in the global cultivation of opium, coca and marijuana between 2009 and 2018"
Medellín, the second most important city in Colombia, which has become a "safe" site for leaders of the Sinaloa cartel who have problems in Mexico
The Governor of Antioquia, Colombia, spoke of opening a tender to eradicate coca crops - 'We will spend some US $1.3 million to rent drones to fumigate'
Why do two communities of Cauca province (Algeria and Patía) defend drug traffickers and guerrillas? While in Algeria the peasants and merchants are trying to save the money that Mexican drug traffickers are paying them for coca, in Patía the population would are supporting the ELN chief because he does not want the narcos from Mexico to enter the municipality, and the guerrillas would be the "retaining wall".
In California, a judge reduces, by more than $200 million, down to $78 million, a jury verdict linking Bayer's Roundup (glyphosate) weedkiller to cancer but upholds the jury's findings that the company acted with malice
Editorial: the unjust detention of Franclin Gutiérrez, the chief leader of the coca leaf producers of the Yungas region of Bolivia
"Aerial fumigation doesn't work": the governor of Caquetá province of Colombia, Álvaro Pacheco, insists on using manual eradication and implementing plans for alternative farming for campesinos
The Antioquia province of Colombia has begun to fumigate coca plants with drones in the Bajo Cauca region - its government, Luis Pérez, has contracted with private drone companies to fumigate illegal coca plantings with glyphosate
The Spanish dossier on the Colombian mafia - points out that the Chinese are the new partners of the Gulf Clan and capos of Galicia
In Colombia, Fedepalma and Cenipalma open a new palm research center in the north of the Caribbean province of Magdalena with an investment of 16,000 million pesos (about $US 5.3 million), and will also allocate another 13,000 million pesos for research and operation
When a landscape has between 45 and 75% of the cultivation of the palm tree, there are "drastic declines" in species
Coca crops in Bolivia are being planted near the planned route for a proposed highway through indigenous lands in the TIPNIS national park
In Bolivia, between 2015 and 2017, 803 tons of illegal coca leaf seized by the government was converted into organic fertilizer
Colombian coca growers bare their teeth to President Duque - the coca growers went on strike a few days ago to tell the government, among other things, that if they do not allow more families to enter the National Program for the Replacement of Illicit Use Crops (Pnis), they will paralyze the roadways
The presence of hantavirus in the La Asunta region of Bolicia, detected during coca eradication efforts, has generated worries among the residents and producers of coca in the region
Coffee rust and low prices threatens the Latin American coffee industry, and 150 years ago, coffee rust destroyed the coffee industry of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
In Colombia, a new generation of drug traffickers means more coca farmers are growing coca
Over 40,000 hectares in Colombia of coca plants were eradicated as of the first week of October 2018
"Cocalero", an herbal liquor made in Ireland using decocainized coca leaf extracts, prepares to enter the U.S. markets
The former health minister of Colombia, Alejandro Gaviria: "Prohibit no, regulate yes" - for the regulated and recreational use of marijuana; and neither consumers nor coca growers are criminals
Opinion: we cannot let e-cigarettes become an on-ramp for teenage addiction to nicotine, which can harm brain development
The Lithuanian Parliament approved on Thursday a law that authorizes doctors to prescribe drugs based on marijuana (cannabis), which, to enter into force, still has to be ratified by President Dalia Grybauskaite
The cocalero leader Franclin Gutiérrez declares himself a political prisoner, after the cessation hearing for his preventive detention was suspended on Thursday morning
Farmers in Norte de Santander manage to suspend forced eradication of illicit crops, and the governor of the department, William Villamizar, will seek to strengthen the voluntary substitution of crops in several municipalities of that region in Colombia
A forensic analysis confirmes that the poisoning of 17 anti-drug soldiers was due infection by the hantavirus, which had been transmitted by drinking water - an alert campaign is activated to prevent local residents from this virus
Bolivian Government stresses that it is unlikely that the water has been contaminated artificially, so it discarded the initial hypothesis of sabotage of the coca eradication tasks
The coca eradicator who died in La Asunta, Bolivia, was infected with the hantavirus, a disease that is transmitted by rats
Bolivian government reports that one dead police office and six others that have been hospitalized were infected with the hantavirus in the La Asunta region
The Government of Colombia has three different voices for its drug policies that are in dissonance, especially with the problem of the coca crops, because some advocate substitution and others tfumigation with glyphosate
The war in Tumaco, Colombia, remains the same, after the operation in which David was killed and the Public Force allegedly wounded Guacho, leader of the Oliver Sinisterra front
Between May 2017 and September 2018 in Colombia, 30,265 hectares of coca plants were voluntarily eradicated by coca farmers across the country
In Bolivia, one anti-drug soldier from the Joint Task Force dies while eradicating coca leaves, presumably due to poisoning
A second anti-drug soldier from the Joint Task Force that carried out coca eradication work in the municipality of La Asunta, in La Paz, died Monday, after suffering from poisoning that had left his health in critical condition
The Anti-Crime Special Police Force of Fight of La Paz reported today the death of a policeman and of a conscript at the coca eradication camp of the Joint Task Force of La Asunta, municipality of the Yungas
Jaime Rivera, coca substitution activist, and his sons, are murdered in southwest Colombia, in the village of Bolivar, Cauca (about 80 miles south of Popayán)
Where does the dirty money of the coca growing boom go in Colombia? It is flowing into a real estate 'boom' in coca-growing areas, and into bitcoins
Coffee growers call for post-conflict development in rural Colombia
The minister of Government of Bolivia, Carlos Romero, denounces poisoning of eradicators of illegal coca - members of the Joint Task Force (FTC) were victims of chemical sabotage - they will be transferred to Santa Cruz for medical attention
Poisoning soldiers in a coca-growing area - a practice used in Colombia that is observed for the first time in Bolivia - according to a Commander, Colonel Jorge Román Castañón, organic chlorides were used
The Guaviare province of Colombia (southeast of Bogota) is betting on peacetime crops with an investment of over US $7 million, thanks to the support of the European Peace Fund for productive projects of peasant farmers
Learn about the types of marijuana most common in Colombia
The steady downfall of Colombia's most powerful drug organization, the Urabeños - led by Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel”
The Stepan Company, the only business in the United States that imports coca leaves with the authorization of the DEA
The DEA in Colombia: Losing the drug war, but having a lot of sex and ‘kompromat’
Bitcoin is 'googled' more in regions of Colombia where there are more coca crops - the country has the 14th most amount of cryptocurrency on the LocalBitcoins platform
Indigenous communities in Colombia cannot sell coca leaf products without permission - they can freely distribute coca leaf products only within their territories without registering with Invima (Colombia's version of the FDA)
The national parks of Colombia contain more than 8,000 hectares of coca plants
The national government of Colombia will provide an incentive of up to 25,000 Colombian pesos (US $8.40) for each load of 125 kg of dry parchment coffee
Some coca growers in Peru achieve an agreement that the price of coca leaf (11.5 kilos) of first quality is now worth 125 soles (US $38, Colombia 112.528 pesos)
At the inauguration of the XIV Ordinary Congress of the Six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba and upon his return from the United States, President Evo Morales of Bolivia asked the Chapare coca growers to learn to speak English and elaborate economic and social policies to export coca products
Editorial: What should we do with coca in Colombia?
Opinion: the use of glyphosate for eradication of coca - between foolishness and precaution; there is an urgent need to discuss new alternatives to the coca-growing business
Interview with Emilio Archila, head of the High Council for Stabilization - about the future of the national plan to replace illegal crops in Colombia
U.S. president Donald Trump: "We want to work with President Duque to eradicate production of coca"
Antioquia, a province in Colombia with an unusal increase in the cultivation of coca - between 2015 and 2017, drug traffickers in Antioquia increased coca cultivation by 477 percent
En Putumayo they are killing leaders who support the substitution of coca crops in Colombia - so far this year Putumayo has seen the murder of nine social leaders
What can be done to stop the rapid rise of coca cultivations in Colombia?
The 'Duque plan' that Colombia hopes will reduce illegal coca crops by 70% during his four-year term
From Nariño, Putumayo and Norte de Santander in Colombia, the leaders of coca leaf farming alternatives ask President Iván Duque not to eradicate coca forcibly and for no reason return to the fumigations with glyphosate
In Colombia, coca crops are the last phase of the peasant colonization of the periphery of the country and provide sustenance to some 100,000 families, who can not find land within the country integrated to the legal economy nor find opportunities for employment and social services
Alcohol kills three million people a year in the world, according to a World Health Organization report
With coca leaf farming up 500% in the last two years, the Lower Cauca region of Colombia aims to be the new Catatumbo (the current leader in coca farming)
In Catatumbo, coca cultivation increased (a sub-region of Norte de Santander were 16% percent of the coca crop is grown in Colombia), but it was not an excessive increase
Latin America is the murder capital of the world, much due to the crime from supplying the United States' insatiable demand for cheaper marijuana, and cocaine - one of the world's most profitable drugs only sourced in the coca fields
The challenges that Colombian president Iván Duque has to reduce the record amount of coca being grown in Colombia
In the regions of Colombia dedicated to growing coca leaves, 68% of the children are unable to go to schools - with the growth of coca farming, violence has worsened for the rural population
In Colombia, the illegal farming of coca in 2017, in terms of hectares (171,000 hectares) exceeded that of corn (170,000 hectares), potatoes (139,000 hectares) and beans (70,000 hectares)
The challenges that Colombian president Iván Duque has to reduce the record amounts of coca being cultivated in Colombia
Interview with Bo Mathiasen, the United Nations representative in Colombia - "Coca is being growing in the same places as always"
Opinion: coca is not cocaine - the only solution in sight is to legalize coca cultivation and penalize and prosecute its transformation into cocaine, its transportation and distribution
Colombian coffee growers continue producing at a loss, according to the average prices calculated by the National Federation of Coffee Growers (coffee being a suggested alternative to coca)
A Bolivian court rejects an appeal and orders that coca farmers' leader Franclin Gutiérrez remain in jail pending trial
The Drug Enforcement Agency: the federal agency that has proved itself incompetent for decades despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars
The executive secretary of the coca growers of La Asunta (the Yungas of Bolivia), Freddy Quispe, denounced the continuing eradication of coca cultivations in permitted zones by the anti-drug police, and denounced other abuses
Five tons of coca leaf were found by the Peruvian national police inside of a coca paste processing laboratory, in the community of Pelmaz, district of Puerto Bermudez, province of Oxapampa (Pasco)
Editorial: the conflict with coca farmers and the eradication of coca farms in Bolivia - Chapare coca that is "bitter and tough" versus Yungas coca that is "sweet and smooth"
Opinion: The problems of General Law 906 For Coca in Bolivia, and the conflict with coca farmers
Colombian Defense Minister, Guillermo Botero, says that there is a doble standard in the country, with people complaining about the use of glyphosate to eradicate coca while the pesticide is heavily used in agriculture
Colombian president Iván Duque hopes that in the next four years, Colombia can reduce by between 140,000 and 150,000 of the farmed hectares of illegal cultivations of coca
The coca leaf and cocaine ties that bind Colombia and Venezuela
Businessmen in the Valle del Cauca (the province of Cali) are requesting that the Colombian government defend the price of sugar (a drug?) - which has fallen 21% in international markets
President Trump questions the increase of illegal farming of coca in Colombia, and doesn't decertify the country, but demanded significant results to happen immediately
President Trump questions the increase of illegal farming of coca in Colombia, and doesn't decertify the country, but demanded significant results to happen immediately
Opinion: glyphosate: from "dangerous" to "healthy" for eradication of illegal cultivation of coca - but, it is still dangerous
Jose Obdulio Gaviria, whose family formed the Medellin drug cartel, now is a senator for Colombia's conservative ruling party, strongly criticizes recreational use of marijuana and he wants to recriminalize all marijuana use
The cultivation of coca leaf in Polígono 7, within the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis) in Bolivia, will be rationalized, announced yesterday the Deputy Minister of Coca, Eulogio Condori
Nearly a hundred uniformed police in Bolivia proceeded to unblock the route that connects La Paz with Yungas, in the Unduavi sector - there are at least six people who were arrested for assaulting the troops with stones and blunt objects
Nearly a hundred uniformed police in Bolivia proceeded to unblock the route that connects La Paz with Yungas, in the Unduavi sector - there are at least six people who were arrested for assaulting the troops with stones and blunt objects
Opinion: the wild and crazy politics of coca in Bolivia
Bolivian police reinforced traffic control on the highway between La Paz and the Yungas until 8am Monday morning to prevent a blockade by the coca growers of Adepcoca
Coca growers from the Yungas begin a blockade of the highway to Unduavi
After the ratification of the preventive detention of the chief leader of the Departmental Association of Producers of Coca (Adepcoca) La Paz, Franclin Gutiérrez, the coca growers begin the blockade of roads in La Paz province and declare themselves in permanent mobilization
The failures of the post-conflict the Catatumbo pilot program - two years ago the Caño Indio village became the post-conflict laboratory in Catatumbo
In the four visits that Iván Duque made to Caquetá as a candidate between March 2017 and May, he promised that his first days of government would be done there. But after a month of being president of Colombia has gone, and nothing is scheduled soon for their Workshops for Building the Country.
Editorial: The quixotic crusade against the minimum dose - while in the United States, investors are preparing for a regulated industry of sales of cannabis products that will reach US $35 billion in 2022, in Colombia the Ministry of Justice talks about how dads must account for the addiction of their children that are captured in possession of the minimum dose. Is irrational obscurantism returning to Colombia?
Opinion: Colombia should join the United States and Canada in legalizing and regulating and taxing marijuana
A criminal court in La Paz affirms the preventative detention of the president of the northern coca growers association (Adepcoca), Franklin Gutiérrez
A criminal court in La Paz affirms the preventative detention of the president of the northern coca growers association (Adepcoca), Franklin Gutiérrez
Colombian president Iván Duqu requests Francisco Santos (the new Colombian ambassador in Washington) to repair relations with the U.S. which have been strained by the increase in illegal coca farming in the country
Coca farmers in Bolivia from the Yungas will block roadways starting Monday and women will go on hunger strikes
The Bolivian government denies preferential treatment and reports that in the Chapare region it is eradicating 6 times more coca than in the Yungas
Coca farmers in Bolivia from the Yungas will block roadways starting Monday and women will go on hunger strikes
The Bolivian government anticipates that surplus (illegal) coca being grown in La Asunta will be eradicated in one month
Who is Franclin Gutiérrez and why are people from the Yungas mobilizing for him? The president of Adepcoca is accused of being the intellectual author of events in La Asunta that left one police officer dead
The Bolivian government anticipates that surplus (illegal) coca being grown in La Asunta will be eradicated in one month
Video of Colombia Senator and indigenous leader, Feliciano Valencia, speaking in the Legislature in opposition to coca eradication with glyphosate, and in support of legal, beneficial, uses of coca
The Colombian government has decided to use drones to fumigate illegal plantings of coca
Coca farmers from the Yungas warn of a 90-day blockade of roads in Bolivia if their leader, Franklin Gutiérrez, is not freed
The judicial system in Bolivia postpones a hearing for Franklin Gutiérrez, so coca growers maintain threats of more protests
Opinion: the coca growers of Bolivia - the end of a suspicious hegemony of President Evo Morales
A massive march of coca growers from the Yungas region who traveled 200 kilometers on foot arrived yesterday at the government seat city to demand justice for the death of two coca growers in addition to asking for the release of their leader
Preharvest use of glyphosate poisons kids’ food, showing up in the food supply at potentially unsafe levels
The Special Project to Control and Reduce Illegal Cultivations in Alto Huallaha, Peru, reported that from February to today, that it had eradicated 19,193 hectares of illegal coca cultivations and destroyed 52 cocaine processing laboratories
The Colombian Minister of Justice, Gloria María Borrero, confirms that the government is studying the return to coca eradication with glyphosate
"There will be substitution of coca farming in Jamundi or these cultivations will be eradicated" - a warning to coca farmers from the governor of Valle province in Colombia, Dilian Francisco Toro
Coca farmers from La Asunta (Bolivia) request the resignation of President Evo Morales, decide to remain in La Paz to protest, and demand the end of the eradication of illegal coca farming in the region
The coca growers of Bolivia, gathered together in the public area in the Plaza de San Francisco, demanded that the government release its leader Franclin Gutiérrez by Wednesday, who is accused of the death of a police officer
The coca growers of Bolivia, gathered together in the public area in the Plaza de San Francisco, demanded that the government release its leader Franclin Gutiérrez by Wednesday, who is accused of the death of a police officer
Protest march of coca growers receive less public support in La Paz, and the government minimizes the march's impact
The areas of influence, including control of coca farming, of illegal armed groups in Colombia
Colombia: 'I'm not proud cultivating coca, but we have no choice' - farmers say there are no alternatives to illegal cultivation as armed groups, corruption take hold of their communities [good photos]
The Bolivian government says a criminal network supports the Adepcoca leader Franklin Gutiérrez, and that foreign nationals could have trained these people and coca growers in the use of firearms
Bolivian Prime Minister Carlos Romero: there will be no more interventions in Los Yungas but eradication of coca will not be terminated
Guillermo Botero, the new Colombian Defense Minister, announces plans for the eradication of coca - "En Colombia, coca farming cannot be a way of life"
Demands for justice in Bolivia articulate social discontent, for example, the increased conflicts with coca farmers
Editorial: The Bolivian government's management of the crisis of the Yungas coca growers
Colombia charges 13 former Chiquita Banana (United Brands) executives over hundreds of murders during the 1997 to 2004 time period, accusing them of using death squads to increase profits by eliminating labor unrest
How the new president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, inherited an old feud between Colombia’s administrative, bureaucratic elite families -- and regional, landowning cattle ranchers, cane farmers and coffee families -- and the feud's affect on the problem of coca
Colombia's ayahuasca ceremonies in spotlight after tourist's drug death - western backpackers travelling in increasing numbers into the jungle to take traditional drug administered by shamans
Precious as silver ($270 pound, versus $5 a pound for coca leaf), vanilla brings cash and crime to Madagascar from the grueling work of peasants
Cocaleros de Yungas march in La Paz carrying their dead in coffins and receive support from the Public University of El Alto
The Bolivian Attorney General, Ramiro Guerrero, announced the reinforcement of the commission of prosecutors is investigating what happened in La Asunta, and did not rule out summoning the police commander, General Faustino Mendoza
Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) protest with coffins the recent deaths of coca growers during protests, marching with the children of the dead coca growers, while the Bolivian government rejects dialog
Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) protest with coffins the recent deaths of coca growers during protests, while the Bolivian government rejects dialog
The march of coca growers from the Yungas of La Paz has arrived in the area of Puente Villa, from where voices blame the Evo Morales regime for being responsible for the deaths of coca growers that occurred in the town of La Asunta
Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) protest with coffins the recent deaths of coca growers during protests, while the Bolivian government rejects dialog
Coca growers from the southern drug trafficking region of Bolivia say that Franklin Gutiérrez is the "ringleader of drug traffickers and terrorists"
Opinion: Colombia and cannabis - ideas for Perú - "Colombia already has one of the world's most advanced legal frameworks in this industry"
Monsanto-Bayer: eliminating the 'Monsanto' name will not erase its crimes of ecocide, for example, due to its cancer-causing weedkiller, Roundup (glyphosate)
The Bolivian Public Defender, David Tezanos Pinto, requests dialog, offers mediations and proposes that Bolivian suspend their coca eradication efforts in La Asunta
Bolivian police claim that they acted with 'legitimate defense' en Asunta, while coca growers request support of the Church and human rights organizations, after two coca farmers are killed
Bolivian coca growers in La Asunta request a human rights commission after the death of two coca farmers
Why did relations between the northern coca growers (Adepcoca) and the Bolivian government break down?
Editorial: the coca leaf: for over 50 years, the never-ending problem en Bolivia
The fight over coca leaf in Bolivia: an attack on eradicators in the region of the Yungas of La Paz is evidence of the growth of coca farming in Bolivia - and were Colombians involved in the ambush?
In the Colombian Congress, the Minister of Defense defends the use of glyphosate - "I have not known a better herbicide than glyphosate", says Guillermo Botero
In Bolivia, the price of coca leaf has increased 103% in 10 years, from 32 Bolivianos per kilo in 2007 to 65 Bolivianos (about $9) in 2017
Franklin Gutiérrez, president of the coca growers usion of northern Bolivia (Adepcoca), in an interview, states that a minister of the Bolivian government tried to buy his loyalty
Franklin Gutiérrez, president of the coca growers usion of northern Bolivia (Adepcoca) has his efforts to run for president in 2019 blocked by his arrest and jailing
Close to 300 coca leaf growers from the Yungas of La Paz start a march for "coca and dignity", heading towards Government headquarters in La Paz
The dead body is found of the 10-year-old son of a leader of the coca growers in La Asunta, Bolivia
A judge begins preliminary hearings against the director of northern Bolivian coca growers union (Adepcoca) - the police consider Franclin Gutiérrez, the leader of Adepcoca, as the 'intellectual author' of the "ambush" of police in La Asunta
Coca growers startup a vigil and demand the freedom of their leader, Franclin Gutiérrez
Bolivian government says that it will continue with the eradication of illegal coca farming, and will not negotiate "with no one" about the antidrug fight
Listen to Franklin Gutiérrez from jail: "The Bolivian government wants to see me behind bars"
A judge begins preliminary hearings against the director of northern Bolivian coca growers union (Adepcoca) - the police consider Franclin Gutiérrez, the leader of Adepcoca, as the 'intellectual author' of the "ambush" of police in La Asunta
A judge begins preliminary hearings against the director of northern Bolivian coca growers union (Adepcoca) - the police consider Franclin Gutiérrez, the leader of Adepcoca, as the 'intellectual author' of the "ambush" of police in La Asunta
The family of Franklin Gutiérrez says that the Adepcoca runs the risk of danger and they demand his freedom
Coca growers startup a vigil and demand the freedom of their leader, Franclin Gutiérrez
La Asunta concentrates 41% of the coca leaf farming in the Yungas, Bolivia
The Prime Minister of Bolivia, Carlos Romero, filed a criminal complaint against Franklin Gutiérrez, president of Adepcoca (the coca growers association of northern Bolivia)
Are Colombians training Bolivian coca farmers in the use of guns?
Cocaleros in three provinces of the Yungas (Bolivia) announced yesterday that they will remain alert in that region and announced more mobilizations in case the government does not meet their demand - the expulsion of the Joint Task Force in charge of the eradication of coca
Private sector behind many of the mass killings of social leaders in Colombia, who fought for return of lands stolen during the conflicts by groups such as palm oil companies
A police lieutenant in Bolivia who was killed during a confrontation with coca growers in La Asunta was from the region, originally from Coripata and a son of a coca grower
Opinion: the illegal coca mini-republic of the Chapare in Bolivia
Opinion: "The Barons of Coca" en Bolivia
Opinion: TIPNIS, coca and cocaine in Bolivia
Interview with León De la Torre, the Europen Union ambassador in Bolivia - "The results of monitoring coca imply that there has been a recession in eradication"
Interview with Bo Mathiasen, the United Nations representative in Colombia - "Ten municipal regions are full with coca"
In Bolivia, one police officer dies and seven others were injured in La Asunta - the police officers were protecting workers who were eradicating coca leaf bushes when the police were ambushed
In Bolivia, one police officer dies and seven others were injured in La Asunta - the police officers were protecting workers who were eradicating coca leaf bushes when the police were ambushed
In Bolivia, one police officer dies and seven others were injured in La Asunta - the police officers were protecting workers who were eradicating coca leaf bushes when the police were ambushed
The northern coca growers of Bolivia (Adepcoca) request that anti-drug police be removed from their Yungas region, and sent to Cochabamba and to protected areas
Fear and alarms generated in La Asunta, in the Yungas region of La Paz, after the deployment of police in this region as security for brigrades of workers eradicating illegal farming of coca leaf
Coca framing in Bolivia has reached levels seen in 2005, and it is clear that the government has lost control of such farming
For Colombia's coffee farmers, some having switched from coca farming, climate change has become an inescapable reality - with more flooding, drought and invasive pests
The FARC Colombian political party files a proposed law to decriminalize small-scale farming of coca leaf
A proposed law for special legal treatment of small-scale coca farmers returns to the Colombian Congress
In Bolivia in 2017, some 21,000 tons of coca leaf were not sold through the country's legal markets, while 23,000 tons were sold legally
In Bolivia in 2017, the coca leaf farming rose 6% to 24,500 hectares, with the most growth in the area of the Tropic of Cochabamba
In Bolivia in 2017, the coca leaf farming rose 6% to 24,500 hectares, with the most growth in the area of the Tropic of Cochabamba
El Deber, 22 August 2018
The Bolivian government argues that the increase in coca leaf farming is "not excessive", but admits that their eradication efforts could be less 'slack'
UN Office of Drug Control reports that illegal coca farming in 6 protected areas in Bolivia, with the major quantity of illegal coca in the Carrasco, Cotapata y Isiboro Secure national parks
The Polygon 7 region of TIPNIS national park in Bolivia has 1,100 hectares of illegal coca leaf farming
The government of Bolivia will continue the eradication of coca bushes in La Asunta (the Yungas) despite threats from the coca growers in the region
Rising tensions in La Asunta (the Yungas, Bolivia) - coca farmers announce measures to fight government eradication errorts
During a forced eradication operation against illegal coca farming in the La Asunta region north of La Paz, two police officers were injured and 11 coca farmers were arrested
The government of Bolivia will not apply taxes on the coca leaf farming sector, despite the fact that it is a very profitable activity
Colombia tests using drones to destroy coca plants, using the drones to drop herbicide amid surge in cultivation of illegal crops
Canada's AviCanna and Colombia's Grupo Daabon join forces to produce medical marijuana extracts in Colombia, using 40 hectares in Santa Marta (Magdelena department)
Glyphosate, chemical used to eradicate coca leaves in Colombia, is found in popular oat meal cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars in the U.S.
A federal court in the U.S. orders the U.S. government, in particular the EPA, to ban an insecticide, chlorpyrifos, that can cause brain damage in children - farmers in Colombia use chlorpyrifos
Colombia's renewed war on drugs could get ugly, and solve nothing, with the new Duque government saying it will crop substitution agreements made with 75,000 coca-growing families and send in the military for forcible eradication and aerial fumigation
Adriana La Rotta: the coca farming regions of Colombia are nine years behind other rural regional development efforts
U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, while touring coca fields in northern Colombia, says that coca farming needs to be eradicated
Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million to a groundskepper in the first glyphosate-based Roundup cancer lawsuit, glyphosate used in Colombia to eradicate coca leaves
Bayer still argues that its glyphosate weekkillers 'do not cause cancer', though it is listed as a carcinogen in California, for example
Colombian farmers in Catatumbo seek to plant peace in former coca fields
A federal judge in Brazil bans the use of glyphosate in the country until the government re-evaluates the toxicology of the chemical
Major coca growing regions in Colombia by hectares, led by Tumaco, in 2016, and that one square kilometer of coca growing has a value of $37 million, second to marijuanas $47 million
Southern Bolivian coca growers union re-elect Evo Morales as their leader, and endorese his re-election as president of Bolivia in 2019
Southern Bolivian coca growers union re-elect Evo Morales as their leader, and endorese his re-election as president of Bolivia in 2019
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On the trail of 'Gaucho' in the Colombian port of Tumaco in Nariño provice, the ex-FARC drug trafficker making a killing from Colombia's peace process
Facing Supreme Court investigation, ex-president Álvaro Uribe resigns from Senate in Colombia
The illusion of the technological fix of using drones to eradicate coca in Colombia
Statistics and maps of coca farming in Colombia
In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, now you can request home delivery of coca leaves with the business 'Bolivery'
Adepcoca, the coca growers association of northern Bolivia, celebrates its 35th anniversary and accuses the government of encouraging the illegal production of coca leaf in the Chapare region and in national parks
The UN Office of Drug Control is conducting new studies to determine the destination of coca lead produced in Bolivia on the 22,000 hectares of coca farms authorized by law
Four coca growers blocking the road to Sud Yungas protesting against the eradication of surplus coca in La Asunta and shouting "Bolivia says No", ended up in jails in San Pedro and Calahuma accused of six crimes
10% of the world's production of coca leaf is in Bolivia, with 23,100 hectares grown in 2016
10% of the world's production of coca leaf is in Bolivia, with 23,100 hectares grown in 2016
10% of the world's production of coca leaf is in Bolivia, with 23,100 hectares grown in 2016
Cocaine production in Bolivia increased en 2016, but at a slower pace, according to the 2018 World Report on Drugs
United Nations Office of Drug Control publishes its annual World Drug Report, once again not mentioning nicotine or alcohol, the deadliest killing drugs in the world
The Colombian far-right group, Aguilas Negras, vows to kill all of Colombia's social leaders, including those working in coca communities
In coca growing regions of Colombia, where FARC rebels once ruled, drug traffickers now fight for control
Former U.S. vice president Joe Biden says that the Trump Administration should not punish Colombia for not having much success in reducing the farming of coca
67 companies are authorized to grow medicinal marijuana in Colombia
This will be the shock-and-awe plan of the Government of Colombia to eradicate hectares of illicit coca crops
The district attorney for La Paz, Edwin Blanco, requests jail for four coca growers detained in the Yungas on Thursday for carrying explosives and obstructing the public
The district attorney for La Paz, Edwin Blanco, requests jail for four coca growers detained in the Yungas on Thursday for carrying explosives and obstructing the public
The presence of Bolivian president Evo Morales in the Yungas coca growing region reactivates protests of coca growers
Coca growers in La Asunta (Yungas, Bolivia) say that arrests of their colleagues were illegal, but Prime Minister Carlos Romero denies this
Bolivian president Evo Morales tells the coca growers that he would remove from the Yungas communitites advocates against his re-electiom
The requirements to start a legal medical marijuana business in Colombia
Bolivia's workers union (COB) tells the politically powerful coca growers that a worker should be a second vice president
Coca flour has more calcium than milk and more protein that quinoa
The economy of the coca leaf in Colombia
Eco-warriors battle farmers over the use of millions of liters of glyphosate in the Argentine countryside
The indigneous community of Corinto (Cauca, Colombia) captures two ELN guerillas after an attack with explosives
In Bolivia, coca growers from the Chapare activate a campaign for the re-election of the Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera en the general elections in 2019
Nariño (Colombia), governed lately disguised as alternative power, is preparing now, just as 20 years ago my people suffered, to continue to receive the dew of poison (glyphosate) as always under pressure from the United States
The lands of coca in Caquetá, Colombia: beyond eradication and substitution - the key is to transform
How Colombia does nothing while its social leaders are being exterminated, many in areas where coca cultivation is popular
Seven bodies are found in the coca-growing community of Argelia, Cauca (southwest of Popayan), days after locals were warned about an impending "social cleansing", but the victims do not seem to be from the local community
What can reduce the cultivation of coca in Colombia? These are the alternatives
Colombia is forced to resume fumigation due to the 'boom' in coca farming since eradication stopped three years ago
Colombia's latest weapon in the war on drugs? Drones spraying glyphosate over coca farms
Government of Colombia says that dispersion of glyphosate by drones over coca farms will not affect the health of the farmers and their communities
Government of Colombia has a goal of eradicating 110,000 hectares of coca in 2018
Colombia's president Juan Manuel Santos defends Colombia's cocaine reduction strategy as production soars
Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, says that Bolivia "faces" the fight against drug trafficking with "dignity and sovereignty"
Maria Margarita Restrepo, just elected to Colombia's House of Represenatives, accused of benefitting from election campaign support from "Popeye", Pablo Escobar's former hitman
The United States qualifies as "unacceptable" the increase in coca farming in Colombia, with an 11% increase in the number of hectares of coca grown in 2017
Aerial drones and glyphosate - the response of the Colombian government to the increased farming of coca
The United States qualifies as "unacceptable" the increase in coca farming in Colombia
The farming of coca leaf in Colombia rises to 209,000 hectares, according to an annual report of the U.S.
Colombia’s out-of-control cocaine production ‘unacceptable’: US
Colombia: a new president, Ivan Duque, proposing an old (failed) counter-narcotics strategy
Record amount of coca grown, record number of murders: the flipside of "peace" in the Caucas of southern Colombia
The new president of Colombia, Iván Duque, will reactivate the aerial fumigation of illegal coca farming
This will be the action plan of the Government of Colombia to eradicate hectares of illicit crops of coca
Why do Colombian coca crops continue to grow despite eradication efforts? Reseeding, 'banned' zones for eradication and difficulties with crop substitution explain 'boom' of coca.
The ex-presidents of Portugal, New Zealand, and Poland send a letter to Colombians emphasizing the importance of having the next Colombian president continue that policy of voluntary substitution of illegal coca crops
The fruits and vegetables that farmers will substitute for illegal coca crops in the towns of Valle, Colombia
In 2017, the illegal farming of coca in Colombia grew at least 23% to 180,000 hectares, according to the government
FARC and the forest - peace is destroying Colombia's jungle, as loggers and miners move into previously inaccessible regions, followed by scientists studying previously inaccessible terrains
How corruption of government officials and law enforcement officers fuels cocaine trafficking in Bolivia
Is Bolivia's coca policy protecting traditions, or creating a narco-state? (both)
In Chulumani (Bolivia), coca farmers violently clash with members of the government ruling party MAS
How Cuba helped make Venezuela a mafia state that is heavily invovled in cocaine smuggling, both countries betraying the coca leaf
The coca growing dispute in the Yungas (Bolivia) forces government ruling party (MAS) to not register members to run in local elections
How the coca craop could strengthen Colombia
Regulation of pesticides such as glyphosate (used to eradicate coca) needs to include societal assessment
Peru football captain Paolo Guerrero cleared to play at the World Cup after a Swiss court ruling saying that his drinking coca tea was accidental
UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean (ECLAC) calls for legalizing drugs in Latin America to reduce the human cost of prohibition
Coca growers of Adepcoca affirm that Bolivian police use marbles to break up social protests, and they request the renunciation of Prime Minister Carlos Romero
Coca growers of Adepcoca affirm that Bolivian police use marbles to break up social protests, and they request the renunciation of Prime Minister Carlos Romero
Bolivia's Legislature will question Prime Minister Romero about the presence of police officersin the facilities of Adepcoca
Former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe is allegedly linked, once again, to the 1990s drug families of Medellín
Former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe is allegedly linked, once again, to the 1990s drug families of Medellín
Colombia's coca growing regions, overlaid with regions controlled by FARC dissidents, the ELN and criminal mafias
Ivan Duque, presidential candidate in Colombia backed by former president Álvaro Uribe - is receiving a lot of support from Colombia's criminal political clans?
The Open Source Foundation has a symposium on coca industrialization in New York City, though no one involved with coca industrialization is invited to speak
Franklin Gutiérrez, Adepcoca's president to be president of Bolivia, promises to eradicate surplus coca from the Chapare
For the second time, the government of Colombia will not reach its goal of substitution for coca farming
The U.S. spent billions fighting coca in Colombia in the last 20 years, but the amount of coca grown has not changed in these last 20 years
In Colombia, for the business Coca Nasa - when the coca leaf is an option for entrepreneurship
Colombia's peace deal with the FARC is causing more burning of the Amazon for coca and marijuana, burnings formerly discouraged by FARC enforcing strict green rules
Adepcoca (the association of northern Bolivia coca growers) will have its own candidate in the 2019 presidential elections, their leader, Franklin Gutiérrez
The Bolivian minister of Rural Development, César Cocarico, says that the presidential candidacy of Adepcoca president César Cocarico confirms the political nature of Adepcoca
The southern Bolivia coca growers of the Chapare (Cochabamba) activate a team of cybernauts to defend the government
Adepcoca decides to create its own political party and confirms the presidential candidacy of its leader, Franklin Gutiérrez
Adepcoca decides to create its own political party and confirms the presidential candidacy of its leader, Franklin Gutiérrez
Adepcoca decides to create its own political party and confirms the presidential candidacy of its leader, Franklin Gutiérrez
The benefits of consuming coca flour
Peace efforts in Colombia have ended 50 years of intense conflict - now, scientists are studying former fighters and victims as they attempt to heal
Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Pedro wants Colombia to withdraw from the US war on drugs, saying the policies are ineffective
Fishing is how some coca growers fight against illicit crops in Tumaco, Colombia
Colombia misses coca crop substitution target by 40% (20,000 hectares)
VRAEM: Peruvian national police seize more than 1.5 tons of illegal coca leaf - what was seized was transferred to ENACO storage facilities
In Colombia, the story not told: when coca farming brought education and health to the Putamayo communities
A confrontation in Chulumani, Bolivia, between coca growers affliated with Adepcoca and a faction that supports the mayor, Vladimir Vega, of the government ruling party MAS - leaves two injured and serious damage to property
A confrontation in Chulumani, Bolivia, between coca growers affliated with Adepcoca and a faction that supports the mayor, Vladimir Vega, of the government ruling party MAS - leaves two injured and serious damage to property
Coca farmers from La Asunta reject an agreement with the Bolivian government, and restart protest in the Yungas
Colombian government gives $22 million to families in Tumaco to substitute other crops for illegal coca farming
Coca farmers from La Asunta, and the government of Bolivia, sign an agreement declaring a pause in coca eradication efforts (includes photo of agreement)
Coca farmers from La Asunta, and the government of Bolivia, sign an agreement declaring a pause in coca eradication efforts
Coca farmers from La Asunta, and the government of Bolivia, sign an agreement declaring a pause in coca eradication efforts
The criminal logic of the coca market in Colombia
Coca fumigation using drones in Colombia, a new weapon against illegal coca farms
Opinion: Bolivian government using DEA tactics against illegal coca farmers in the Chapare but now against the mostly legal coca farmers in the Yungas
Bolivian police apprehend eight coca farmers from La Asunta (Yungas) that were carrying explosives
Bolivian government orders pretentive detention for five coca farmers that were carrying explosives
José Jaír Cortés is the first community leader assasinated for supporting the substitution of illegal coca crops in Tumaco, Colombia
Honduras finds another coca farm in organized crime stronghold
Rebel groups fighting over coca-growing region in northern Colombia, the Norte de Santander province
Opinion: Colombia's FARC caught with their hands in coca - still acting as drug gangs
Editorial: the coca farmer's rebellion in the Yungas of Bolivia
Bolivia's Drug control vice minister, Felipe Cáceres, denounced coca farmers in La Asunta for installing explosive devices on the sides of roads to block anti-drug police from their eradication efforts
4 coca farmers from La Asunta (Bolivia) will be jailed, and two give house arrest, after protests
Government of Bolivia links the leader of Adepcoca, Franklin Gutiérrez, with armed groups that resist the eradication of surplus and illegal coca crops
In Bolivia, the Deputy Minister of Coca, Froilán Luna, announced that the coca growing communities of the Yungas that rebelled against the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS - the ruling government party) will be punished and will not be granted projects
In Tumaco, Colombia, 20 percent of illegal coca farming has switched to alternative crops
Opinion: The substitution of illegal crops does not fail nor stop in Colombia - Eduardo Diaz Uribe
Bolivian government files lawsuit against leaders of the Yungas coca farmers for blocking eradication and accuses Franklin Gutiérrez of links with the 'right'
The Prime Minister of Bolivia, Carlos Romero, dedicated a press conference to the coca conflict in the Yungas, and sustained that Franclin Gutiérrez (director of Adepcoca) has links and "friends" among the far right, and that he is linked to the U.S. Embassy
Bolivian government reveals that in La Asunta there are 1,500 hectares of illegal coca farming, and it denounces efforts to avoid eradication
VRAEM: Peruvian national police seize more than 3 tons of illegal coca leaf - what was seized was transferred to ENACO storage facilities
Coca farmers from Chulumani, Irupana, Coripata and the Asunta burned flags of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), in rejection of the physical presence of this government party in the Yungas of La Paz (Bolivia)
Coca farmers from Chulumani, Irupana, Coripata and the Asunta burned flags of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), in rejection of the physical presence of this government party in the Yungas of La Paz (Bolivia)
Over the last ten years, doctors, human rights activists and coca farmers are the only social organizations that have resisted the Bolivian government
Producers of traditional coca from the Yungas meet in regional assemblies to determine measures that allow for the annulment of the new General Coca-Cola Law 906 and the removal of coca producers affiliated with the MAS (the government ruling party)
An open meeting of producers affiliated with the Chamaca Regional Adepcoca in the municipality of Chulumani (Bolivia), determined that no community should allow the installation of MAS campaign offices (MAS is the government ruling party)
An open meeting of producers affiliated with the Chamaca Regional Adepcoca in the municipality of Chulumani (Bolivia), determined that no community should allow the installation of MAS campaign offices (MAS is the government ruling party)
VRAEM: Peruvian national police seize more than 4 tons of illegal coca leaf - what was seized was transferred to ENACO storage facilities
Letter to Editor: the Colombian authorities face an extraordinarily complex task in trying to run forced and voluntary coca-eradication and crop-substitution programmes in parallel
Coca farmers in La Paz retake the headquarters of Adepcoca after 6 days of conflict
Coca farmers in La Paz retake the headquarters of Adepcoca after 6 days of conflict
Founders of Adepcoca, allied with the Bolivian government, deliver the offices to the new director, Franklin Gutiérrez, who had been ratified 3 times by members
Founders of Adepcoca, allied with the Bolivian government, deliver the offices to the new director, Franklin Gutiérrez, who had been ratified 3 times by members
Court in La Paz orders release of 8 coca farmers, while during a town hall meeting, coca growers ratified Franklin Gutiérrez as the leader of Adepcoca, the coca growers association for northern Bolivia
Police in La Paz use rubber bullets against coca farmers - at least farmers are injured
Two dozen detainees and several wounded were counted in La Paz, as the conflict continues to deepen with parallel leaderships and cross-accusations that keep the Yungas coca growers in uncertainty
For the fourth consecutive day, the police forces in La Paz attacked yesterday against the cocaleros of the Yungas, with extreme violence and use of chemical agents
Two dozen detainees and five wounded were counted in La Paz, as the conflict continues to deepen with parallel leaderships and cross-accusations that keep the Yungas coca growers in uncertainty
Tensions persist at the headquarters of Adepcoca, and there is risk of more confrontations
Power struggle for leadership of Adepcoca continues, with government endorsing a new board of directors against desires of Adepcoca members
Ad hoc committee backed by the government takes control of the board of directors of Adepcoca, to be headed by Honorato Atto, one of the "founders" of the association
Franklin Gutiérrez, president of Adepcoca: "The Bolivian government wants Adepcoca to camouflage its illegal market for coca leaf"
Franklin Gutiérrez, president of Adepcoca: "The Bolivian government wants Adepcoca to camouflage its illegal market for coca leaf"
Adepcoca, the coca leaf growers association of northern Bolivia, is determined to remain on vigil in La Paz, after a violent day of protests and police repression that left 15 wounded and two people arrested
In La Paz, Bolivia, clashes leave one coca farmer arrested and two police injured as police disperse organized group of coca leaf growers who tried to retake offices of their coca association, Adepcoca
In La Paz, Bolivia, police disperse organized group of coca leaf growers who tried to retake offices of their coca association, Adepcoca
Coca farmers of The Yungas (norther region of Bolivia) elect Franklin Gutiérrez as president of thee coca grower's association, Adepcoca, and burn the honorary credentials of President Morales and Vice President García
Coca farmers of The Yungas (norther region of Bolivia) elect Franklin Gutiérrez as president of thee coca grower's association, Adepcoca
Coca farmers of The Yungas (norther region of Bolivia) elect Franklin Gutiérrez as president of thee coca grower's association, Adepcoca
With 'The Invisibles', post-conflict Colombia has a new generation of cocaine traffickers who prefer anonymity to violence
Yungas-region coca growers in Bolivia remain on alert for the 'seizure' of their Adepcoca facilities by a group affiliated with the Government
Yungas-region coca growers in Bolivia remain on alert for the 'seizure' of their Adepcoca facilities by a group affiliated with the Government
Yungas-region coca growers in Bolivia remain on alert for the 'seizure' of their Adepcoca facilities by a group affiliated with the Government
The curse of Corinto (Cauca, Colombia) - with its privileged geographic location that is perfect for groups that traffic in drugs
Editorial: is former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana correct - that the coca growers of Chapare formed a political party that now dominates Bolivia, based on the profits of drug trafficking?
The ex-president of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana (1998-2002): "The coca that arrived from Bolivia caused violence in Colombia", and assures that Chapare coca supplied the Colombian cartels
The state of Guaviare, Colombia, has substituted 100% of its coca crop
The U.S. is ceding the $30 billion medical marijuana industry [by 2021] to other countries because the DEA is complicated research efforts by U.S. scientists
The most recent report of the UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses concern about how Bolivia's new coca law almost doubles the amount of legal coca growing
The Bolivian prime miminster, Carlos Romero, indiates that there is an error in the report of the UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board
The deputy minister of Social Defense of Bolivia, Felipe Cáceres, assures that the legal demand for coca leaf for traditional consumption rose from 14,700 to 17,100 hectares between 2014 and 2017
The UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses worries about the increase in legal coca farming in Bolivia
The UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses worries about the increase in legal coca farming in Bolivia
The UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses worries about the increase in legal coca farming in Bolivia
The UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses worries about the increase in legal coca farming in Bolivia
Leaders of Adepcoca (northern producers of coca) go into hiding due to suspected political persecution by the government of Bolivia
Coca farmers from The Yungas (Bolivia) suspend their protests and prepare a list of 13 demands
Two anti-drug strategies are at war in Colombia - crop substitution versus eradication
Confrontations between coca leaf producers in the Yungas, and police trying to end their blockade of roadways, leaves various injured on both sides
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Indigenous villagers in Peru are losing patience with coca land siezures
Coca growers from the Yungas burn an image of Bolivian President Morales
Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, and taking control of their coca growers' association, Adepcoca
César Cocarico, minister of Rural Development in Bolivia, accuses the coca growers' association of the Yungas, Adepcoca, of selling coca leaf illegally
Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, by paralyzing sales of coca, and are deciding to block the roadways in the Yungas
Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, as the commercial buyers stop buying coca leaf until they learn if a 3 boliviano tax goes to the farmers or their leaders, and are deciding to block the roadways in the Yungas
Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, by not delivering transport maps, and are deciding to block the roadways in the Yungas
Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, by paralyzing sales of coca, and are deciding to block the roadways in the Yungas
The Europen Union observes increased coca farming in Bolivia, due to "climate situations"
The post-conflict peace in Catatumbo is one step away from failure for Colombia - the substitution of coca crops has not taken off, investments have fallen short and some demobilized guerillas are creating dissident groups to maintain control of drug trafficking routes on the border
Colombia's health minister wanted to make it easier to produce a generic option for hepatitis C treatment, so Big Pharma and Uncle Sam threatened the country’s peace process
Bolivian president Evo Morales convenes the Chapare coca farmers to enlist them in a "digital war" on the social networks, to aid his controversial efforts to run again to remain president
Mario Vargas Llosa: the perception of drugs
The strategic instutitional plan for the National Coca Business (ENACO) of Peru: 2017-2021
Alerts given for the presence of Mexican drug cartels in 10 zones of Colombia, who are now acquiring coca plantations
Difficulties that the UN is having to use satellites to identify coca leaf farms in Bolivia
Constitutional Court of Colombia backs land fumigation and eradication of illegal coca farms
Activities for the eradication of illegal coca begin in Bolivia
The government of Bolivia start eradication of illegal coca farming with a goal of eliminating 7,000 hectares
The plant used to make cocaine could become the next superfood, if Colomb
ian farmers have anything to do about it
Bolivia welcomes Dakar Rally drivers with wreaths of coca leaves
Is coca leaf tea the next big beverage trend?
Police on one of the Hawaiian islands, Kauai, seize 15 cocaine plants being grown in Kalalau Valley
Is coca leaf tea the next big beverage trend?
Coca and agriculture in post-peace accord Colombia (Part I)
10 key people for the post-conflict process in the Santander regions og Colombia
In Bolivia, banana and pineapple production grows as an alternative to coca farming, but farmers lack markets to sell their crops
Evo Morales tells American actor Morgan Freeman about the benefits of the coca leaf
Evo Morales tells American actor Morgan Freeman about the benefits of the coca leaf
From Putumayo, the coca farmers requrest more management of the post-conflict activities in Colombia
From coca to cacao: Colombia pushes farmers to exit cocaine trade
Editorial: the production of coca leaf continues causes public complications in Bolivia
Coca farmers from the Chapare (Bolivia) willing to debate about the diversion of coca leaves to drug traffickers
Adecopa (coca growers association for northern Bolivia) calls 'absurd' the country's Supreme Court decision to allow legal coca growing in the south, and Adecopa plans to file a lawsuit at the International Court of Human Rights
Adecopa (coca growers association for northern Bolivia) calls 'absurd' the country's Supreme Court decision to allow legal coca growing in the south, and Adecopa plans to file a lawsuit at the International Court of Human Rights
Colombia: is cocoa the new cocaine, as government invests $6 million to improve living conditions of cacao farmers?
Adecopa (coca growers association for northern Bolivia) calls 'absurd' the country's Supreme Court decision to allow legal coca growing in the south, and Adecopa plans to file a lawsuit at the International Court of Human Rights
Problems of coca and cocaine should be a topic in Colombian political campaigns
The Bolivian Supreme Court declares constitutional new laws that legal coca farming in the Chapare
The Bolivian Supreme Court declares constitutional new laws that legal coca farming in the Chapare
The Bolivian Supreme Court declares constitutional new laws that legal coca farming in the Chapare
The Supreme Court of Bolivia rules against Yungas coca farmers, and legalizes coca farming in the Chapare
The agony of the peasant coca farmer in Colombia
Black leaders who urged farmers to dump coca on run from Colombia gangs
The price of cocaine paste (from the Vraem region of Peru) drops in price from $1300/kilo to $800/kilo
Bolivian government estimates that 3000 hectares of coca leaf grown in Bolivia is sold to drug traffickers, with 24,000 tons sold for legal purposes
Bolivian government estimates that 6000 tons of coca leaf grown in Bolivia is sold to drug traffickers, with 24,000 tons sold for legal purposes
Peru has already eradicated more coca (> 20,000 hectares) this year than Colombia in 2016 (18,000)
Colombia signs $300 million United Nations deal to fight cocaine production by bribing farmers to switch from coca (for which they earn $300/month per hectare) to cacao and coca
Eight days of peaceful protests by coca growers in Catatumbo (Colombia) become more violent, with attacks against three tanker-trucks
Colombia's land battles shatter the peace in Cauca Valley, including battles over coca leaf farming [with photos]
Froilán Luna Meneces is sworn in as new Vice Minister of Coca
Froilán Luna Meneces is new vice minister of coca, and Minister Cocarico denies a rupture with Adepcoca
Conflicts over new coca laws provokes another coca vice minister to resign
The vice ministry of coca leaf, Wilfredo Llojlla, resigns and warns of more violence to come in La Asunta
The vice ministry of coca leaf, Wilfredo Llojlla, resigns and warns of more violence to come in La Asunta
Ten points that explain the complications of substitution of other crops for the farming of coca leaf - the goal of substituting 50,000 hectares appears impossible to achieve, the conclusion of a report published by the Foundations for Ideas for Peace
Why is the Pacific region of Colombia turning into an ocean of coca
In Colombia, the controversy over the route to get peasants out of the coca trap
Efforts to substitute other crops for coca leaves in Putumayo (Colombia) results in more people opposed to government eradication efforts
The owners of coca lands in Colombia: many are rich and unthreatened
Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos defends proposed law that decriminalizes small harvests of coca leaf (less than 3.8 hectares), after criticisms from his Attorney General
Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure
Evo Morales, from defender of coca farmers to president of Bolivia (photos)
Colombian president Juan Manual Santos defends proposed law to eliminate jail time for those who grow less than 3.8 hectares of coca leaf, or less than 84 square meters of marijuana, or less than 3.840 hectares of poppy plant
Colombia proposes to eliminate jail time for those who grow less than 3.8 hectares of coca leaf, or less than 84 square meters of marijuana, or less than 3.840 hectares of poppy plant
Confrontation between ESMAD (anti-drug police) and peasant coca farmers in Norte de Santander (Colombia)
Government of Bolivia fixes the limit of coca farming at 20,000 hectares, 2,000 less than allowed by the new law
Wilfredo Llojila, the Bolivian government negotiator with coca growers in the Yungas for crop erradication efforts, himself has extensive family holdings of coca farms
Over 100,000 coca farmers, indigenous farmers and Afro-Colombian farmers from in southern Colombia to start indefinite protests demanding more support for the government to switch from coca growing
Growing rejection in Colombia over DEA report critical of Colombian efforts to reduce coca growth
Coca farmers across Colombia hold protests, aggravated by tensions between coca farmers, Afro-Colombians and indigenous groups
The coca farming bonanza that has been registered in Colombia and the increase in the consumption of cocaine in the United States will continue to rise until at least 2018, the DEA said Monday when delivering its report for the year 2017
Consumption of cocaine in the U.S. has risen in the last ten years due to overproduction in Colombia, supplying 90% of the cocaine in the U.S.
Hundreds of hectares of coca leaf, the motor of violence in the rural zone of Jamundí in Colombia (24 kilometers south of Cali)
U.S. DEA says that Colombia will not achieve its coca erradication goal this year
Colombia's prosecutor general proposes aerial fumigation of coca bushes
Colombia coca cultivation likely to increase in 2017 according to U.S. DEA
14 coca leaf growers violently detained in La Florida (La Paz department, Bolivia) after fighting with anti-drug police there to eradicate their coca plantings
Colombian Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez warns that the country is failing to erradicate 100,000 hectares of coca bushes, a victory for drug traffickers
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos to send up to 9000 police to the municipality of Tumaco, which has been much crime recently, including the murder of 7 coca growers
The conflict in Tumaco (Colombia) over illegal farming of coca leaf could occur in 10 other municipalities of Colombia
More cacao, less coca, farming in Colombia
And if Colombia's problem isn't coca? - cultivation of coca leaf is a problem for the anti-drug politics of the United States, not for Colombia
Stopping the criminalization of the peasant coca farmer in Colombia
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has ordered 102 police to be transferred over last week’s massacre of protesting coca growers, when 10 protesters were killed when police fired on coca farmers who formed a human chain to block a government eradication sweep against their crops
What went wrong in Colombia's new drug policy - they didn't do enough to help coca farmers profitably grow other plants
Tumaco (in the Nariño department of Colombia) is the municipality with the most hectares of coca leaf farming in the country
Colombian police have killed nine coca leaf-growers protesting against an eradication sweep, farmers said on Thursday, and another 18 were injured
Bolivian ministry of rural development announces that the biometric permit will be granted by the government only to coca leaf distributors, not the producers
The government of Bolivia suspects that Adepcoca is not showing its registry of affliated coca leaf merchants because of irregularities
Adepcoca (association of northern coca growers) announces mobilization of 18,500 coca growers to reject the new coca leaf law in Bolivia
Adepcoca (association of northern coca growers) announces mobilization of 18,500 coca growers, for October 10th, to reject the new coca leaf law in Bolivia
Curbing Colombia coca and cannabis production is doomed to failure, say farmers
The Thê Wala and the coca leaf - the voice of the Nasa people resounds from the Colombian Amazon
Peruvian police seize 560 kilograms of coca leaves in the Huanuco region
The government of Bolivia decides to reduce 50 percent its dedicated efforts to eradicate illegal coca growing in the country
Surge of coca growing in Colombia and decertification threat tops Santos-Trump agenda
The World Health Organization will assemble a group of specialists to study the science qualities of the coca leaf
The World Health Organization will assemble a group of specialists to study the science qualities of the coca leaf
Bolivia will finance a candy and coca tea manufacturing plant in Venezuela
Bolivia will finance a candy and coca tea manufacturing plant in Venezuela
The government of Bolivia declares the Tipnis national park free of illegal coca growning, after eradicating 181 hectares
Why can't Colombia successfully halt the expansion of coca farming?
Coca farmers in the Catatumbo region (Colombia) protest against the eradication of coca plants
Buying the coca leaf harvest is cheaper than fumingation
How the coca growers of the Chapare region are using their huge profits to expand into legal businesses, undercutting prices of companies that can't rely on drug trafficking profits
Coca growers of Inquisivi (Bolivia) threaten to resist eradication efforts
Trump warns Colombia that it could be de-certified because of the increase in coca farming
Although Colombia continues to have broad support in Washington, the growth of illicit coca crops in the country and the effects that this is already having on the streets of the United States is becoming a serious and irritating problem for bilateral relations
1 dead, 2 injured in clashes between coca growers and Colombia military in Morales, Cauca (15 miles north of Popayan)
Coca growers of Munaypata (Inquisivi province, Bolivia) give weapons to their children to help fight eradication efforts
Coca growers of Munaypata (Inquisivi province, Bolivia) give weapons to their children to help fight eradication efforts
New rules (with 89 sections) limit the production of coca leaf in the Yungas (Bolivia)
Coca growers of Inquisivi (Bolivia) warn of resistance to government efforts to eradicate their coca plants
President Evo Morales admits that some will try to entry the Tipnis National Park (where new roads are being built) to plant coca
Bolivia is the strategic point for drug traffickers for the South American coca region, a regional corridor of international scope
The coca growers of Achacachi (Bolivia) want their coca farming to be made legal under the new Coca law
The variety of coca leaves used in cola sodas does not exist in Bolivia
With regards to the coca substitution program, the government of Colombia remains unorganized
United States says that coca cultivations in Bolivia have risen to 37,500 hectares
Brazilian drug cartels are trying to control coca fields and coca leaf processing in Bolivia, in the Acre province of Brazil next to the Pando province of Bolivia
The coca growers of the Chapare region (Bolivia) impose a law of fear and anxiety in the TIPNIS national park, to prevent investigations into the new road being built through the TIPNIS would show help drug trafficking
Coca farmers start protests against renewed eradication of their coca farms in Taraza, Antioqua (Colombia)
Ditching coca for other crops, Colombia's farmers ask: "Where do we sell?"
A study concludes that there is only one species of coca bush in the Yungas and Chapare regions of Bolivia
Armed harrassers impede the eradication of coca leaf in various parts of Colombia
In Bolivia, cultivation of coca rose from 861 to 1233 hectares in Polygon 7 of the TIPNIS, farmed by Chapare coca growers
Colombia: searching for an alternative to coca
The Colombian coca growing community, which has traditionally been the social base of the Farc and could be one of the bases of its future party, wants to put candidates to compete to be elected to the Congress in 2018
Bolivian political analyst Ivan Arias argues that the government is choosing to justify the illegal farming of coca in national parks to help being re-elected in the 2019 elections
Wilson Santamaria, chief of the opposition party in the Bolivian national assembly, criticizes the comparison of coca farming in Bolivia and Colombia
Coca farmers and truck drivers will damage the biodiversity of the Tipnis national park in Bolivia, when new highway is built through the reserve
Colombia's coca farmers in a legal dilemma that may jeopardize new drug policy
Opinion: In Bolivia, more production of coca and less eradication
The coca farming leadership of the tropics of Cochabamba (Bolivia) admit that part of their production goes to drug traffickers - only 11% of the Chapare coca leaf is legally commercialized
President Evo Morales yesterday lashed out at coca growers from the Yungas area of La Paz, urging them to stop being "envious" of their comrades in Chapare
President Evo Morales affirms that the new Law of Coca guarantees coca leaf farming forever for the Yungas and Tropic of Cochabamba
The coca growers of Chapare reject talking with coca farmers from Colomi, because the Colomi lands are not legal cultivations in Bolivia
Adepcoca (the northern coca growers in La Paz province) signaled that that "they will not abandon" the coca growers around Colomi, who are demanding to be able to legal grow 700 hectares of coca
President Evo Morales defends the new law of coca and qualifies as "enemies" those who do not value the police and army groups fighting drug trafficking
Bolivian government reiterates that it will no permit coca farming in national parks, and views the protests of coca farmers in Colomi as politics
Bolivian government will begin efforts to eradicate illegal cultivations of coca leaf
The Minister of Rural Development in Bolivia, César Cocarico, denounced that the Adepcoca is delivering coca leaf production permits to those not authorized for the cultivation of the bush
A pause in the coca leaf protests en Colomi for two weeks, as they wait a the decision of the Supreme Court
Opinion: coca, cocaine and Cocarico (the minister overseeing coca]
The United States and Bolivia are worried about the increase in coca harvests in Bolivia
Coca growers yell 'Evo murderer!' in Colomi after protester is killed with a marble used as a bullet
Coca growers of Colomi (Boliva) end their highway blockade and bus lines in La Paz and Cochabamba re-open travel to Santa Cruz
Coca growers of Colomi (Boliva) end their highway blockade and police re-open the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz highway
UN Office of Drug Control suggests three challenges to avoid increases in coca leaf farming in Bolivia
Opposition deputies in Bolivian national assembly demand reinforcing efforts to eradicate illegal coca farming
Coca farmers of Colomi say that Bolivian rural development minister César Cocarico is controlled by the coca farmers of the Six Federations of the Tropics
Cuba and Uruguay to jointly research medical and nutritional uses of the coca leaf
The Bolivian government warns, again, about eradicating all of the illegal coca farming
The Tropics of Cochabamba region of Bolivia harvested 17,300 metric tons of coca leaf, with only 1,861 tons going to the legal markets
En 2016, eradication of coca drops 40% in Bolivia, and cultivation rises 14%
En 2016, eradication of coca drops 40% in Bolivia, and cultivation rises 14%
In Bolivia, farming of coca leaves in the national parks rises by 24%
Planting more coca and eradicating less in Bolivia
The government of Bolivia rules out recognizing, as coca growers, the protestors in Colomia who demand the government assign them 700 hectares of the 7,700 hectares made legal in the new Law of Coca
President Evo Morales warns the Chapare coca growers that they will have problems if they grow coca in national parks
President Evo Morales guarantees the Chapare coca growers they will be given lands to grow coca outside of the national parks
After decades of war, Colombian coca farmers face a new test - peace
The Pacific region of Colombia continues being the region with the most cultivation of coca in the country
Supreme Court in Bolivia admits lawsuit against the new law of coca farming
The rural development minister of Bolivia, Cesar Cocarico, trusts that the Supreme Court will validate the new coca farming law
50 buses of Coca leaf growers from northern Bolivia (the Yungas) travel to Sucre to march on the country's Supreme Court to demand that parts of the new coca law that favor southern Bolivian growers be ruled unconstitutional
50 buses of Coca leaf growers from northern Bolivia (the Yungas) travel to Sucre to march on the country's Supreme Court to demand that parts of the new coca law that favor southern Bolivian growers be ruled unconstitutional
Uruguay will investigate the medical benefits of Bolivian coca leaf
The Honduran army destroys first coca crop detected in the country
Retail vendors of coca leaf in La Paz, Bolivia, boycott purchases of coca leaves from Adepcoca
UN Drug Control Office wants to re-analyze the amount of farming of coca leaf in Bolivia
In Ecuador, cultivate coca leaf with the permission of a judge!
53% of the Bolivian population does not chew coca leaf
In Bolivia, coca leaf producers can sell 25% more coca without waiting for a new regulation to be approved
Adepcoca, the association of 35,000 coca growers in northern Bolivia (the Yungas region), votes to not recognize the new law of coca farming
The government of Bolivia will increase from 8 to 10 taques (50 pound bags) that licensed sellers of coca leaf can sell each month
In Bolivia, rural development minister Cesar Cocarico is accused for private negotiations with a small, select group of northern (Yungas) coca growers
Are Colombians trying to expand cultivation of coca into Honduras?
In Peru, growers of 'world's best' coffee are losing ground to the popularity of coca farming
Colombians are growing coca plants in Olancho, Honduras
Honduras destroys its first coca plantation
Coca plantation 'experiment', 8.4 hectares, in Olancho, Honduras raises eyebrows
Discovering 12 fields of coca plants on a mountain in Olancho, Honduras
The United States requests that Colombia resume the aerial spraying of coca crops with herbicides
Bolivia admits losing to China, India and the U.S. in international markets for quinua exports
Legal complaint being readied against Bolivian coca growers in the Yungas who acted violently during a visit of a government minister
Bolivian coca growers in the Yungas (Arapata) use dynamite during visit by Rural Development minister Cesar Cocarico
Bolivian government security forces to investigate violent acts by Yungas coca growers protesting the new coca law
Legal complaint being readied against Bolivian coca growers in the Yungas who acted violently during a visit of a government minister
A new group of coca growers from the north of La Paz are forming a new association separate from Adepcoca
Editorial: coca farming in Bolivia results in over 500,000 low quality jobs
Only 3 of 32 departments in Colombia are free of coca farming
Peru plans to redice by half its cultivation of coca by 2021
Government of Bolivia warns the Supreme Court (TCP) against suspending the new coca law
Missed deadlines with the peace agreement in Colombia, with no progress with the coca farming problem
Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) and UD opposition party in Bolivia file lawsuit that annuls the expansion of coca farming into the Chapare
Opposition political party in Bolivia (the UD party) seeks a 20-year jail penalty for those who illegally grow coca
Government of Colombia starts new strategy to reduce the farming of coca leaf, but drug trafficking groups take immediate steps against new plans
Opposition political party in Bolivia, Unidad Democrata, offers to file lawsuit challenging constitutionality of new coca law
Adepcoca (northern coca growers in Bolivia) look to the opposition UD party to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new coca law
In Bolivia, Adepcoca (northern coca growers) request support of the Public Defender to file a lawsuit against the new Coca Law
Bolivian governments intends to open a plant to manufacture decocainized coca leaf products, and seek to reactivate two industrialization plants
Mauricio Mamani: la coca, de lo sagrado a la folklorización
The hidden truths of the coca farmers' conflict in Tumaco, Colombia
President Evo Morales asks the coca farmers of Cochabamba to not plant coca in protected areas of national parks
Coca farmers from the Chaparé seek a meeting with their peers from the Yungas (Bolivia)
Debate in La Paz: prohibited plants under the new anti-drug policy in Bolivia
United Nations recommends to Colombia to focus on voluntary substitution of illegal cultivations
The Bolivian Economics Minister, Luis Arce Catacora, called on the media to help raise awareness among coca farmers in the Yungas to pay taxes
Adepcoca, representing the Yungas coca farmers (Bolivia) seek to have the new Coca Law declared unconstitutional
Adepcoca, representing the Yungas coca farmers (Bolivia) seek to have the new Coca Law declared unconstitutional
Chocolate that defeats the coca - Colombian peasants change the violence and the illegality of coca with cacao
Bolivian coca farmers from the Yungas file an appeal against the new Coca Law
The Bolivian Economics Minister, Luis Arce Catacora, called on the media to help raise awareness among coca farmers in the Yungas to pay taxes
As U.S. pressures Colombia to curb coca boom, eradication meets growing local resistance
Coca farmers in Argelia, Cauca (Colombia) reject eradication and block the streets
Negotiating with growers, Bolivia forges its own approach to coca production
Coca farmers in Cochabamba (Bolivia) request consideration of paying taxes under the new coca law
The Fundación Acción Semila (Bolivia) seeks to produce organic coca for export
The new coca law in Bolivia provokes confrontations between Yungas producers and authorities
Coca farmers march this Friday in Popayan (Colombia)
The new coca law in Bolivia: the new regulation scenarios
Coca for cacao: the way towards legality for the Colombian communities of Vichada
Thousands of coca farmers of Colombia: we campesinos, we coca farmers, are not deliquents!
The other enemy of coca substitution that was uncovered in Tumaco, Colombia - enemies much more powerful and armed than small coca farmers
Growing coffee instead of coca in Peru
The new coca law favors the elite coca growers of the Chapare and the Yungas in Bolivia
Seven people injured during a street blockade by coca growers in Tumaco (Colombia)
Coca farmers burn buses and block the highway in Tumaco, Colombia
Argentina worries about the new law that almost doubles the cultivation of coca in Bolivia
United States differs with the UN Office of Drug Control, and firmly insists that in Bolivia there are 36,500 hectares of coca farming
In Bolivia, coca production creates overexploitation, generates 675,149 precarious jobs, a large majority of them between farm workers and day laborers
With the help of Cubans, Bolivian is elaborating a project for the industrialization of coca
Bolivian government believes that coca "is the mother of our dignity"
The new law of coca (Bolivia) benefits coca-growing capitalists, big or small, but not for the poor salaried campesinos
Wilfredo Llojlla es the new Vice Minister of Coca in Bolivia
The United States is worried about the new Law of Coca Leaf in Bolivia
3,700 hectares in the Cauca region of Colombia are ready for substitution of illegal cultivations such as coca
Manufacturers in Bolivia: the government fails to support the industrialization of coca
In Bolivia, the coca leaf from the Yungas is preferred in Santa Cruz for chewing and making tea, but not coca leaf from the Chapare
Colombia's coca substitution pilot program suspended after farmers rise up
The coca farming revolution in Bolivia
Bolivia law 1008 confuses the traditional farming of coca with a crime of international dimensions
Corinto (a municipality in the north of Cauaca, Colombia) is one of the acid tests of coca crop substitution in Colombia
Rich-world agricultural subsidies ensure coca leaves are Colombia's only viable cash crop
Corinto, a municipality in north Cauca, Colombia, is an acid test for the substitution of coca farming
Colombian in Spain acquited of charges of drug trafficking due to importing ground coca leaf
Which regions of Colombia are playing the biggest role in the coca boom?
Coca-growing in Colombia is at an all time high, with the government hoping that former FARC guerillas will persuade villagers to switch crops
Myths and truths about the coca farming bonanza (including 188,000 illegal hectares) in Colombia
Why coca leaf, not coffee, may always be Colombia's favorite cash crop
Why coca leaf, not coffee, may always be Colombia's favourite cash crop
Editorial: increased coca farming in Bolivia will not lead to more legal products through industrialization, but rather more cocaine production
Why coca leaf, not coffee, may always be Colombia's favourite cash crop
Three out of ten Bolivians regularly consume coca leaf
President Evo Morales impassions the coca growers of Cochabamba: "¡Long live coca, death to the Yankees!"
Cuban scientists investigating properties of the coca leaf in Bolivia
UN Office of Drug Control is collecting data for a report on coca leaf crops in Bolivia
The new law of coca, a serious measure against Bolivia
The campesino face of coca in Colombia
Will there be more legal consumption of coca in Bolivia, now that there is more legal coca growing allowed?
Bolivia will eventually repent for its expansion of coca farming, and bury coca law Law 1008
The Plan Colombian eradication failure: 17 years and $10 billion later, coca production in Colombia is up 38%
Bolivia dreams of selling coca leaf, but all the world sees is cocaine
Bolivia dreams of selling coca leaf, but all the world sees is cocaine
In Bolivia, the government elevates the production of coca, but abandons the food production sectors
Colombian government confirms that coca farming reached a historic record in Colombia - 188,000 hectares and 710 tons
United States reports that coca farming reached a historic record in Colombia - 188,000 hectares and 710 tons
The European Union requests more studies about the coca leaf in Bolivia
The resurgence in coca cultivation in Colombia worries the United States
The new controversial law of coca farming and its effects in Bolivia (with graphics)
Deputy Lino Cárdenas states that 3 of 10 Bolivians consume legal coca leaf daily, the others occasionally
In Vienna, Bolivia will defend its coca leaf policies and anti-drug fight, in reports to the UN
Coca, the 1000-year-old leaf that survived the fight against drug trafficking in Colombia
In Bolivia, production of coca leaf in the Chapare region equals that of the Yungas region
The government of Bolivia announces that a German business is negotiating to buy a coca beverage from Bolivia
The fight against cocaine: its failure and a solution
The politics of a tax on legal coca farming in Bolivia
The new coca leaf law in Bolivia: solution or sacrifice?
One of the desires of President Evo Morales is that there will be coca leaf forever, and that the practice of coca chewing expand around the world
Chapare region in Bolivia evaluating areas where legal coca will be farmed
Coca leaf from Chapare will be sold directly to consumers in local communities
The Bolivian government admits failings in the control of legal coca farming and bets on penalties to prevent diversion to drug traffickers
The fraud of coca industrialization in Bolivia
President Evo Morales signs new coca farming law without the support of the Yungas region of Bolivia
Coca leaf growers from the Yungas region reject the new coca leaf law in Bolivia, rejecting the increase in legal cultivation in the Cochabamba region of the Chapare
President Evo Morales signs the new law that expands legal plantings of coca leaf and calls for effort to industrialize coca products
President Evo Morales labels as traitors those who reject the new law of coca farming in Bolivia
The government of Bolivia will work with leaders of the coca growers from the Yungas and Chapare to create a tax law for coca farming
Bolivian government expects to impose a tax on coca leaf sales
Bolivia faces the challenging of explaining to the world the increase in coca farming under the new law
In La Paz (Bolivia), they only sell and consume coca leaf from the northern Yungas region
The environment and security at risk due to the new coca laws in Bolivia
The new coca law in Bolivia: peace and money in exchange for a greater social risk
The increase in coca farming threatens relations between Colombia and the United States, now more than 200,000 hectares
Tumaco and Briceño: two of the zones with the most cultivation of coca in Colombia
The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, rejects a U.S. report about anti-drug efforts in Bolivia
Life in the VRAEM, Peru's 'cocaine valley'
The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, rejects a U.S. report about anti-drug efforts in Bolivia
An annual report of the U.S. State Department warns that in 2016, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia continue being the biggest producers of coca and cocaine in the world
An annual report of the U.S. State Department warns that in 2016, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia continue being the biggest producers of coca and cocaine in the world
'Coca farming increased because the Government of Colombia peace activities with FARC', according to the U.S. Department of State
'Coca farming increased because the Government of Colombia peace activities with FARC', according to the U.S. Department of State
Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, justifies approval of expansion of coca leaf cultivation to 22,000 hectares and assures that legal demand is growing
Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, justifies approval of expansion of coca leaf cultivation to 22,000 hectares
Increase of allowed patents of coca leaf will have an effect on the environment in Bolivia
Increase of allowed patents of coca leaf will have an effect on the environment in Bolivia
Evo Morales argues that the political right has moral basis to criticize expanded cultivation of coca
Evo Morales argues that the political right has moral basis to criticize expanded cultivation of coca
56 intellectuals and professionals in Bolivia reject the new law that expands growth of coca
147 intellectuals in Bolivia reject the new law that expands growth of coca
In Bolivia, political opposition argues that the new coca law favors drug traffickers
Coca leaf in Bolivia: 25,000 tons are being chewed of the 39,000 tons being harvested?
The increase in hectares of coca farming in Bolivia was due to pressure from coca farmers
Bolivian government calculates that 6000 tons of coca leaf are for legal industrial and commercial uses, and 18000 tons of coca are being consumed
Proposed new law for legal coca farming temporarily ends tax on coca leaf harvests
Foreign diplomats and social networks in Bolivia raises concerns and voice objections to new law that expands coca farming from 10,000 hectares to 22,000 hectares
Bolivian Senate approves new coca farming law that expands legal growth to 22,000 hectares, up from 12,000 hectares under the old law
Bolivian Senate approves new coca farming law that expands legal growth to 22,000 hectares, up from 12,000 hectares under the old law
Bolivian Senate approves new coca farming law that expands legal growth to 22,000 hectares, up from 12,000 hectares under the old law
Bolivian Senate approves new coca farming law that expands legal growth to 22,000 hectares, up from 12,000 hectares under the old law
Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) accept agreement with governent to allow some legal coca growing in the Chapare
Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) accept agreement with governent to allow some legal coca growing in the Chapare
Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) accept agreement with governent to allow some legal coca growing in the Chapare
Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) accept agreement with governent to allow some legal coca growing in the Chapare
Bolivian government accuses leader of northern coca growers of frustrating attempts to reach an agreement
Government of Bolivia requests that the coca growers halt their protests after an agreement is reached on expanded farming
Government of Bolivia agrees to allow northern coca growers (Yungas) to harvest 14,300 hectares of coca, and southern growers (Chapare) to harvest 7000 hectares
Government of Bolivia agrees to allow northern coca growers (Yungas) to harvest 14,300 hectares of coca, and southern growers (Chapare) to harvest 7000 hectares
Political opposition in Bolivia proposes a referendum to define the increase in legal coca growth
Government of Bolivia and northern coca growers (Adepcoca) start discussions on the new coca leaf laws
30 injured and 148 coca growers arrested in confrontations with police in La Paz
Government defends allowing coca farming in the Chapare (Bolivia) and wants coca growers to understand the importance of the proposed law
Police in Bolivia free 111 coca growers that were arrested for their public disturbances during protests
Politicians in Bolivia start formal discussions on a new coca farming law, while protests rage in streets of La Paz
Indigenous villagers in Peru losing patience with land seizures by other farmers growing illegal coca crops
Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) decide to restart protests and block the streets in Villa Fatima
Coca growers reiterate and threaten new blockades in the city of La Paz
Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) decide to restart protes
ts in La Paz, and the UN Office of Drug Control offers to mediate the conflict with the government
Police in La Paz suppress protests of coca growers; at least 40 are arrested, while the government calls for dialog
Police in La Paz suppress protests of coca growers; at least 40 are arrested, while the government calls for dialog
Police in Bolivia intervene in a vigil of coca leaf growers at the Murillo government plaza, as the government complains of confrontations
Police in Bolivia intervene in a vigil of coca leaf growers at the Murillo government plaza, as the government complains of confrontations
Under the proposed law, the Chapare region of Bolivia will now be able to grow 7000 hectares of coca leaf, producing 19,000 tons a year
Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) in the Yungas region of Bolivia demand that the government justify why it is making legal the farming of 7,000 hectares of coca farming in the southern Chapare region
Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) in the Yungas region of Bolivia demand that the government eradicate all of the coca farming in the southern region of Chapare which is now illegal
Government of Bolivia convened a meeting with the northern coca growers from the Yungas to discuss changes to the coca growing laws
Cesar Cocarico, the rural development minister of Bolivia, says that protests by the northern coca growers of the Yungas is just policitics
Cesar Cocarico, the rural development minister of Bolivia, says that the northern coca growers of the Yungas requested the right to grow 24,000 hectares of coca leaf, not the 13,000 hectares as in the proposed law
The Legislative Assembly of Bolivia suspends debate over proposed changes to the coca growing laws
Coca growers from the Yungas region of Bolivia close the Murillo government plaza to protest proposed changes to the coca growing laws that favors coca growers from the Chapare
Coca growers from the Yungas region of Bolivia close the Murillo government plaza to protest proposed changes to the coca growing laws that favors coca growers from the Chapare
Coca growers from the Yungas region of Bolivia close the Murillo government plaza to protest proposed changes to the coca growing laws that favors coca growers from the Chapare
Vice Ministry of Coca Production resigns in Bolivia
Editorial: Bolivia really doesn't need to expand coca farming from 12,000 hectares to 20,000 hectares
The government of Colombia hopes to substitute/eradicate 100,000 hectares of coca farming in 2017
Colombia will grant land titles to 10,000 families to abandon coca growing, in three departments of the southwest region of the country where 40% of the coca in the country is grown
Government of Bolivia begins plan to erradicate 5000 hectares of coca leaf plants this year
Yungas coca leaf growers and government of Bolivia continue fighting over changes to Law 1008 regulating legal coca leaf growing
Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) request respect for their current acreages of cultivation
Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) request respect for their current acreages of cultivation
Colombia and FARC rebels to wage joint fight against coca cultivation
The deaths of those at "war" over coca in the Córdoba south, Colombia
The coca leaf growers of Colombia want to have a strong voice in drug politics, and launch a new association of coca growers, the National Council for Growers of Coca, Marijuana and Opium (COCCAM in Spanish)
In Bolivia, arguments over a proposed new law for coca farming saddens the celebrations for the Day of Coca Chewing
Why getting farmers to switch from tobacco crops is a struggle
Government of Bolivia will set limit of 20,000 hectares of legal coca, and a tax of 2 bolivianos per pound
Coca growers in the Yungas and in Cochabamba regions disagree over proposed law for legal coca growing
Margaret Thatcher planned to infest Latin America coca crops with a plant-eating moth without informing the local governments
Adepcoca (association of coca growers in Bolivia) reject meeting with Minister Cocarico, insisting they want to talk with President Morales
The government of Bolivia seeks to provide public lands to coca growers, and admits that eradication efforts "are not a total success"
Bolivia projects exporting to Ecuador, starting in February, products derived from the coca leaf
Bolivia eradicates a lower quantity of coca leaf, 6,576 hectares in 2016 versus 11,025 in 2015, as it approaches goal of 20,000 legal hectares of coca farmign
Of the 32 departments (provinces) of Colombia, 29 cultivate coca leaf
"It isn't impossible to live without coca leaf", according to inhabitants of El Placer (Putumayo, Colombia) - substituting coca leaf with cacao
Farmers in Antioquia (Colombia) denounce the forced eradication of coca leaf
The FARC guerillas of Colombia: not just drug traffickers nor just revolutionaries
AIN short film explores community coca control in Bolivia
How community coca control and integral development prioritize SDGs in Chapare
Cacao - an option en Paramillo (Colombia) for switching from coca farming
Colombia will being the manual use of glyphosate to eradicate coca cultivation
Interview with coca grower Amapola Duran Salas in Peru
What are we going to do to lower the production of coca in Colombia?
Bolivia plans to export coca teas and coca liquors to Ecuador
The 'traditional zone' of coca cultivation in Bolivia, the debate that is coming - the statistics
Bolivia signs agreement with Ecuador to export coca products
Bolivia will export to Ecuador products derived from coca
If Bolivians want more water to drink, say "no" to illegal coca farming
Coca leaf farmers in northern Bolivia propose a law to guarantee the perpetual right to grow coca in eight regions of Bolivia
Coca growers of the Chapare (Bolivia) propose their own modifications to the coca laws
Excessive chewing of coca leaf can cause mouth cancer
Coca leaf was used as money during the pre-Hispanic era in the Andes
Police in Argentina seize 1.25 tons of coca leaf hidden in a shipment of oranges from Bolivia
Police in Peru and Bolivia seize 1.2 tons of coca leaf from Peru being shipped to Bolivia thru Lake Titicaca region
UNASUR report highlights achievements of Bolivian coca control
Bolivia proposes a new law to protect the cultural heritage of coca chewing
International Narcotics Control Board (INCB/JIFE) congratulates Bolivia for its antidrug efforts based on manual eradication of coca
Peru renews military operations in VRAEM coca hub
High schools in Cochabamba region (Bolivia) will include the history of coca in their educational curriculum
How Bolivia successfully fights drug trafficking
Putting coca back in the cola, Colombia mulls coca-based products, for example, from the Coca Nasa indigenous coca products company
Cacao for coca in Colombia
Colombia struggles to reduce illegal farming of coca leaf
Poverty could hobble efforts in Colombia to reduce coca leaf farming after a peace deal is reached with FARC
Vice-minister of Defense of Bolivia proposes three years in jail for the illegal cultivation of coca
In 8 months, Bolivia eradicated 4,200 hectares of coca
Links between gold and coca in Colombia
A journey to the town of El Tambo, the 'coca heart' of Cauca, Colombia
New Colombia Resources (www.newcolombiaresources.com) plans to develop medicinal coca
In Colombia, Senator Jual Manuel Galán open the debate above the medical use of coca leaf
New defense minister of Peru vists the coca growing region of VRAEM
Why is coca leaf left out of the drug research renaissance?
Illegal cultivation of coca leaf, and rates of changes of currencies
Why has the harvesting of coca leaf in Colombia risen sharply?
Coca growers report that 30% of the production of coca leaf in the Yungas region of Bolivia is affected by insect pests
Coca growing zones of Caranavi and Apolo (Bolivia) will be added to list of legal zones for coca farming
Who will control the coca fields in Colombia without FARC?
It is time to respect the indigenous biocultural heritage of the coca plant
Bolivia has its 7th vice minister of coca farming in 10 years
Citizenship or repression? Coca, eradication and development in the Andes - Bolivia
Ecuador agrees to imports of coca products from Bolivia such as coca teas
Bolivia to expand legal cultivation of coca leaves from 14,750 hectares to 20,000 hectares, though only 8,000 hectares needed for legal consumption
Chapare coca growers propose that Bolivia expand legal cultivation of coca leaves from 14,750 hectares to 20,000 hectares
Bolivia to expand legal cultivation of coca leaves from 14,750 hectares to 20,000 hectares, though only 8,000 hectares needed for legal consumption
Bolivia to expand legal cultivation of coca leaves from 14,750 hectares to 20,000 hectares, though only 8,000 hectares needed for legal consumption
Colombia doubles in two years its cultivation of coca leaf, now growing 96,000 hectares
Contradictory statistics about the amount of coca leaf being grown in Bolivia
Between 2015 and 2015, cultivation of coca leaf grew 39% in Colombia
Bolivia assumes head of the regional ALADI committee on the industrialization of coca
UNODC recommends that Bolivia design a new strategy to "sustainably reduce" coca cultivation
European Union finances a study about the potential of producing medicinal cocaine in Bolivia
Laws regulating the coca leaf in Bolivia to be updated by the end of 2016
How the coca leaf became the new superfood of Colombia
Coca tea is slowly becoming popular with people in Spain
What Colombian farmers can buy when they use coca leaves and coca paste as currency [good photos]
Coca growers of the Six Federations of Cochabamba launch a newspaper and radio station
U.S. taxpayers wasted $4.3 billion fighting the cocaine war in Colombia from 2000 to 2008, achieving little reduction through eradication of coca leaves
Peru and Bolivia create an intelligence center to work together to halt illegal coca farming along their borders
The new law in the United States against drug trafficking violates the sovereignty of other countries
Sellers of coca leaf in three regions of Bolivia hold street protests to demand the creation of a State Market for coca leaf
Works of art using coca leaves of the Bolivian artist, Gastón Ugalde, are burned by authorities in Holland
Is the coca leaf eradication policy in South America obsolete?
Who will hire FARC guerillas after peace, if they can't continue to farm coca leaf?
President Evo Morales criticizes new law of the United States that could be used to extradict coca leaf farmers
Coca leaf farmers of Cochabamba (Bolivia) reject new law of the United States that could be used to extradict coca leaf farmers
How the coca leaf became the new superfood of Colombia
A big increase in Coca cultivation in Norte de Santander is troubling for peace plans in Colombia
On video: why farming coca leaf is a good business for a farmer in Colombia
On video: how will coca farmers survive the peace plans of Colombia?
Minister of Justice of Colombia, Jorge Londoño, rules out that cultivators of coca leaf will be extradited to the U.S.
Coca leaf farmers in the Asociacion de Zonas de Reserva Campesina oppose the new anti-drug law signed by President Obama
New law against drug trafficking signed by President Obama won't be used to extradict coca leaf farmers, but rather make it easier to extradict leaders of drug trafficking gangs
Because of a new law of the United States, farmers of coca leaf could be extradited to the United States
50 former coca leaf farmers sell their first year of production of cacao
Peruvian presidential candidate, Keiko Fujimori, snubs for the second time the coca growers of the VRAEM region
The government of Bolivia and the UN Office of Drug Control will update methods of measurement of coca cultivation
The PPK party of Peru (led by Pedro Pablo Kuczynaki) will continue efforts to eradicate coca leaf, if it wins the presidential election
José Chãvez Peñherrera, brother of Peruvian drug trafficker "Vaticano", changes from growing coca leaf to growing cacao
Peruvian presidential candidate, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, rejects any political alliance with a jailed leader of coca growers, Nelson Palomino
Peruvian presidential candidate, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, signs agreement with a jailed leader of coca growers, Nelson Palomino
Coca growers in La Asunta (the Yungas of Bolivia) declare an emergency, and demand that the government cease eradication efforts
Coca growers in La Asunta (the Yungas of Bolivia) declare an emergency, and demand that the government cease eradication efforts
Replacing the cultivation of coca leaf with that of cacao in Sion Valley (Peru)
Coca farmers in Cauca (Colombia) block a highway to protest the eradication of illegal plantings
Peruvian police in the VRAEM incinerate more than 3 tons of dry coca leaf
Without eradication nor substitutions, coca leaf harvests in Catatumbo (Colombia) rise 82%
The ELN guerrilas and the business of coca leaf in Norte de Santander (Colombia)
Coca growers across Bolivia are debating a new law for coca growing to replace Law 1008 passed in 1988
Government of Colombia is preparing a decree to expand the use of coca leaf for medical purposes
In Arauca (Colombia), changing from the cultivation of coca leaf to cacao to earn $20,000
The war against the coca leaf has criminalized an expression of Andean culture
Coca growers in Northern Bolivia (ADEPCOCA) are analyzing the proposed revisions to the coca laws
Colombia rethinks its strategy for coca eradication, and targets laboratories that make cocaine
Ineffective and possible carcinogenic, but Colombia will go back to attacking coca plants with glyphosate
Peru attributes a 50% drop in the price of coca leaf (down to $1.80 per kilogram) due to drop in demand from drug traffickers
President Evo Morales of Bolivia defends the coca leaf, and requests that the U.S. DEA be kept away from the fight against drugs
Fashion models in Bolivia that chew coca leaf
Colombia considers resuming glyphosate use on crops of coca leaf
Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, urges the Pope to chew coca leaves
Coca leaf: doubts, questions, ideas (by Carlos Mesa, former president of Bolivia)
In Bolivia, in May, government to start a debate about modifying the laws to legally grow coca leaf (Law 1008)
Citizenship or repression? Coca, eradication and development in the Andes - Bolivia
In Bolivia, southern coca growers (six federations of Cochabamba) give support to proposed law for government control of social networks during the next elections (a law supported by President Morales and the ruling party)
Five employees of the state company for coca leaf (ENACO), in the Puno region, are arrested after robbing and kidnapping a coca leaf trader
Secretive corporation (Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals) that uses cocaine extracted for coca leaves (which are sold to Coca Cola) paid zero taxes in 2015
Colombia's big comeback - farmers moving from coca leaf to cacao
In the Southwest Colombia region of Tumaco, the government of Colombia to initiate an experimental program to eradicate coca leaf
Questioning the myth of the profitability of growing coca leaf
Coffee or coca? Colombian farmers face a difficult choice
President Morales declares that coca leaf from the Yungas is the best in Bolivia
Bolivia celebrates the day of coca chewing (photos)
Coca leaf growers in the Chapare (Bolivia) want to increase their legal cultivation from 12,000 to 20,000 hectares
Former coca leaf plantations in Colombia are given a new purpose by funding from the European Union
UN reports on decreasing amounts of coca leaf being cultivated in South America, but growing cocaine consumption
UN reports on decreasing amounts of coca leaf being cultivated in South America, but growing cocaine consumption
Bolivia maintains its rhythm of erradication of coca leaf plants
Colombia recovers first place in the production of coca leaf
Northern Bolivian coca growers (Adepcoca) and government trying to increase the legal sales of coca leaf
What would happen if the government of Colombia, instead of destroying cultivations of coca, bought the coca leaf supplies?
The government of Bolivia seeks to eradicate 6000 hectares of coca leaf
30 coca growers in Peru (from Alto Huallaga and VRAEM) are running for Congress in elections, some financed by drug traffickers
Coca leaf farmers in the Yungas continue to protest, demanding referendum over failed government promises for new services, and over failed discussions to increase the acreage of coca plantings in the Yungas versus Chapare
Coca leaf farmers in the Yungas sign agreement with the government, and end their blockade of the highway, in return for more government services such as roadway constructions, a new technology center and better medical services
For third day, coca leaf farmers block highway between La Paz and the Yungas, with 800 cars and trucks trapped on the highway
Coca leaf farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) block roadway to La Paz, with 17 arrested from coca growers union (Adepcoca), while making demands for more social services from the government
Plan Colombia's mixed legacy: coca thrives but peace deal may be on the horizon
Colombia is preparing for peace, but so are its coca drug traffickers
UN drug control office (UNODC) to quanitfy the cultivation of coca in the northern part of La Paz province
President Evo Morales of Bolivia returns to the Chapare region to do a bit of coca leaf harvesting
President Evo Morales of Bolivia announces "battle" to fight for the decriminalization of coca
Cocaleros from the Chapare region of Bolivia, the Six Federations, meet with President Morales in Cochabamba to review the weaknesses of the government
Cocaleros from the Chapare region of Bolivia, the Six Federations, meet with President Morales in Cochabamba to review the management of coca farming in their region
Cocaleros from the Chapare region of Bolivia, the Six Federations, start efforts across their country to support the campaign to change the constitution to allow the re-election of President Morales
Italian police discover coca tea being sold illegally in Italy for many years
The government of Bolivia expects to reduce coca farming to 20,000 hectares by the end of 2015, down from as much as 56,000 hectares in the 1990s
United Nations salutes the achievements in the elimination of illegal coca growing in Bollivia
President Morales of Bolivia announces French scientists will support the industrialization of coca
Coca growers intend to buy radio and newspaper in Cochabamba (Bolivia)
In Bolivia, unlikely outlaws: indigenous coca farmers as indigenous advocates
What you should know about the coca leaf, beyond its criminalization
Mauricio Macri, opposition candidate in the presidential elections in Argentina, chews coca leaf on the campaign trail
Coca farmer killed in revolt against crops eradication in Argelia (Cauca), a municipality in the southwest of Colombia
In Pery, coca growers of the VRAEM region insist that their coca plantings not be erradicated
Residents of the South Yungas (Bolivia) burning forest land to create terrain for coca growing
Bolivia is running out of space to store seizures of illegal coca leaf, now with 3 million pounds in rented space
President Morales urges coca growers of the Chapare to continue to help support the economy
Will the proposed law from the U.S. Senate lead to more extraditions of drug traffickers from South America?
"The potential market for legal coca leaf products is the same as or greater than that of drug trafficking" - Alfredo Menacho, director of Wawasana
U.S. Senate proposes law to make it easier for the U.S. Justice Department to request extradition of drug traffickers from Colombia, including coca growers
There are a growing number of deaths and misuses of prescription opioids in the United States
Government of Bolivia seeks to erradicate 11,000 hectares of illegal coca farming in 2015
Sugar cane growers in Bermejo (Tarija province of Bolivia) are switching from sugar cane to coca leaf, due to lack of government support for alternative crops
Colombia announces a plan to support coca growers who switch to alternative crops
United Nations drug control office (UNODC) requests better control of the legal coca leaf market in Bolivia
United Nations drug control office (UNODC) requests better control of the legal coca leaf market in Bolivia
Bolivia considers new taxes on coca leaf farmers, to provide a new source of revenue for the government as oil revenues decrease
The White House blacklisted Bolivia for growing coca while US states legally sell illegal marijuana
11 countries in Latin America support the idea of Bolivia to promote the commerce of coca leaf and its derivatives
Editorial: Bolivia needs to measure more accurately its growth of illegal coca, to better reduce these illegal cultivations
Colombia promises to reduce the farming of coca leaf near the Venezuelan border in Catatumbo
Over 500,000 pineapple offshoots to replace in coca plants in the VRAEM region of Peru
The first Coca Technology Fair in Bolivia is held in Santa Cruz
CocaCola still has the best taste for its use of coca leaves that have been decocainized
United States is willing to analyze its method for measuring coca growth in Bolivia
United States is willing to analyze its method for measuring coca growth in Bolivia
United States is pressured to analyze its method for measuring coca growth in Bolivia
Editorial: the increase of coca growing in Bolivia is not the problem [to be discussed], but rather the chain of production of illegal drugs
Opinion: We are [Bolivia] a coca farming country, as is our economy
United Nations Drug Control Office does not recognize the method used by the DEA to measure coca growth in Bolivia
United Nations Drug Control Office requests that Bolivia and the United States correlate their data on coca growth
In Bolivia, the coca leaf diverted to the illegal market dropped between 2010 and 2014, from 65% to 40%
President Evo Morales challenges the United States to verify its data on the growth of coca leaf in Bolivia
United States says Bolivia is growing 35,000 hectares of coca, a claim that Bolivia rejects
Tensions revive between Bolivia and the United States after U.S. report on coca growing in Bolivia
Government of Bolivia: the United States persists in discrediting our anti-drug fight
How Bolivia became a drug war success story -- after ousting the DEA
How Bolivia got smart and convinced poor farmers to grow less coca
UN Office of Drug Control reports that 60% of the coca leaf grown in Bolivia is used for legal purposes
Eradication of coca plantations means misery for some of the farmers of Peru
Eradication creates misery for the coca farmers of Peru
Government in Bolivia resumes the eradication of coca plants in national parks, removing 800 hectares in two parks in Cochabamba
Why sugar and soy and palm oil farming is worse for the forests of Colombia than is coca farming
Coca growers in La Asunta (Yungas, Bolivia) fight with municipal leaders over fears that they will not be included in the allocations of the new coca law
Bolivia is growing about 25,000 hectares of coca a year (with a goal to reduce to 20,000 hectares), while destroying about 10,000 hectares a year
Industrialization of coca grown in Bolivia only requires 46 hectares per eyar
Emmanuel Hondrat (of the EU): it was impossible to see coca as a supplement to income
Chapare coca growers diversify to change their lives
Colombia is growing more coca leaf than Peru, according to the latest U.N. report, 69,000 hectares versus 42,900 hectares
Government of Bolivia discusses with Colombia a model to reduce illegal plantings of coca leaf
UN Office of Drug Control to present annual report on coca growing in Peru
Coca growers from Arapato, Coripata, in the Yungas (Bolivia), block strategic roadway for the region, protesting lack of support from Vice Ministry of Coca
Coca growers from Arapato, Coripata, in the Yungas, block strategic roadway for the region, protesting lack of support from Vice Ministry of Coca
Coca growers from Arapato, Coripata, in the Yungas, block strategic roadway for the region, protesting lack of support from Vice Ministry of Coca
Coca leaf production in Colombia has risen 44%, mostly in areas controlled by the FARC guerrillas
The negative health consequences of aerial spraying of coca crops with glyphosate in Colombia
Pope Francis wants to chew coca leaf when he arrives in La Paz, to counter the effects of high altitude
Pope Francis wants to chew coca leaf when he arrives in La Paz, to counter the effects of high altitude
Pope Francis wants to chew coca leaf when he arrives in La Paz, to counter the effects of high altitude
Pope Francis wants to chew coca leaf when he arrives in La Paz, to counter the effects of high altitude
Tropical coca growers in Bolivia (the federations of Cochabamba) assume that Evo Morales will run for president in 2020 (which requires a change to the Constitution)
Coca growers of the six federations of Cochabamba insist on the government legalizing their growing of 7000 hectares of coca
Coca growers of the six federations of Cochabamba analyzing the idea of paying a 5 boliviano tax on sales of coca leaf
Legal experts say that coca growers should pay a value added tax of 13%, and not less than 1% as proposed by way of a five boliviano tax on a 50 pound bag of coca leaf
Coca growers from the Yungas region propose a five boliviano tax on a 50 pound bad of coca leaf
Recalling the 1994 march of the coca growers, and its political impact
Coca growers of the Yungas discussing with the government on how to pay taxes on their legal coca leaves
Coca growers of the Chapare region can't pay taxes on sales of their leaves, because their leaves are illegal
President Evo Morales promises to build the coca growers of the Yungas a new headquarter for $400,000
Economists and analysts say Bolivia should define the legal limits of coca growing, before imposing taxes
The Prime Minister of Bolivia says taxes on sales of coca leaf will only be for legal harvesting of coca leaves
What is the optimal way to impose taxes of legal coca growing?
President Morales says that coca growers are still discussing with the Finance Ministry about a new tax on sales of coca leaf
Finance Minister of Bolivia, Luis Arce, says proposed law to tax the sales of coca leaf has not been sent to the Legislature
Coca growing associations in Bolivia have not reached consensus on proposed law to apply a tax to sales of coca leaf
Coca growers of the Six Federations of Tropic of Cochabamba are willing to pay a tax on sales of coca leaf, but want details of proposed law
Coca growers of La Paz province, Adepcoca, are willing to pay a tax on sales of coca leaf, but want details of proposed law
Government of Bolivia preparing change to the laws for legal coca sales, to standardize the tax on legal sales of coca leaf
Government of Bolivia preparing change to the laws for legal coca sales, to standardize the tax on legal sales of coca leaf
In Oruro (Bolivia), there are legally sold each month between 500 and 700 taques (50 pound bags) of coca leaves
Colombia is struggling to support farmers in their efforts to grow food products other than coca
The new governor of La Paz province, Felix Patzi, will seek some of the fees paid to the national government by coca growers in the Yungas
The new governor of La Paz province, Felix Patzi, will seek some of the fees paid to the national government by coca growers in the Yungas
The new governor of La Paz province, Felix Patzi, will seek some of the fees paid to the national government by coca growers in the Yungas
The Ministry of Agriculture in Peru donates 150,000 coffee saplings to coca growers in the VRAEM
The coca growers of Cochabamba propose law to boost the legal production of coca leaf, and seek support of coca growers from the Yungas
Decriminalization, the change in focus in the war against drugs
Latin American countries are increasingly resisting the U.S. approach to the failed war on drugs
The futility of the war to eradicate coca growing
U.S. accepts the decision of Colombia to stop the fumigation of coca fields with glyphosate, a herbicide that can cause cancer
Colombia decides to stop the fumigation of coca fields with glyphosate, a herbicide that can cause cancer
Colombia decides to stop the fumigation of coca fields with glyphosate, a herbicide that can cause cancer
The European Union will give Bolivia $68 million dollars over five years, to fight illegal drugs and promote alternative development in coca growing regions
Butterflies that eat coca leaves are proposed to replace herbicides in Colombia
The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, orders the suspension of the use of glyphosate to eradicate coca plants, after the WHO declares the chemical to be carcinogenic
Opposition candidate, a coca grower, has his allotment of coca (one cato, about 1600 squares meters) eradicated by anti-drug police
Opposition candidate, a coca grower, has his allotment of coca (one cato, about 1600 squares meters) eradicated by anti-drug police
Opposition candidate, a coca grower, has his allotment of coca (one cato, about 1600 squares meters) eradicated by anti-drug police
More land in Colombia is used to grow coca leaf, according to the United States
President Morales should annul the sanctions against coca growers in the Chapare who voted for the opposition
Laid-off textile workers in Bolivia, we all know, will end up growing coca
Coca growers punished for defecting from the MAS party, will defend their coca growing allotments in Cochabamba
Suspending the fumigation of coca leaf plants with glyphosate is not easy in Colombia
Political opposition in Bolivia objects to coca growers losing their permits, if they support opposition political parties
Ministry of Health in Colombia recommends banning the use of a herbicide that kills the coca plant, but also causes cancer
In Bolivia, coca growers in the Yungas say coca from the Chapare is not consumable, and thus should not be legalized
Ten coca growers in Cochabamba expelled from the union of coca growers, and lose their permits to grow coca, for supporting an opposition party
Ten coca growers in Cochabamba expelled from the union of coca growers, and lose their permits to grow coca, for supporting an opposition party
In Cochabamaba (Bolivia), members of the union for coca growers, who do not vote for the candidates of the government party, will be expelled from the union and lose their allotment to grow and sell coca
In Bolivia, a proposed law will increase the amount of coca grown to 20,000 hectares
Bolivia resists global pressure to do away with its coca crop
The government of Peru allocates $512 million to develop the VRAEM region where coca is grown
Farmers in the VRAEM region of Peru are struggling to grow crops other than coca because lack of government support and good roads
Government of Bolivia to invest US $67 million to develop technology to manufacture lithium batteries
The prime minister of Bolivia explains how the government wants to seek foreign markets for coca products
Less than 1% of Bolivians use cocaine
The government in Bolivia seeks to have the use of coca leaf depenalized around the world
The price of quinua in Bolivia has dropped 73% in the last 4 months, due to imports of cheaper quinua from Peru, quinua being an alternative to coca
The quinua from Bolivia is losing its competitiveness in global markets
Bolivian government will invest $953,000 to build a manufacturing plant to remove cocaine from coca leaves, to create products for export
Bolivia reduces by 10.8% the cultivation of coca leaf from 2012 to 2013
Cultivation of coca leaf in 3 countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Peru) drops by one-third from 2002 to 2013
Peru is finding it difficult to convert coca fields in the VRAEM to other crops
Peru is finding it difficult to convert coca fields in the VRAEM to other crops
Candy producers in Bolivia want government help to find new export markets, after losses due to problems with Venezuela
Price of coca leaf in the legal markets (controlled by Adepcoca) rises 30% to 1200 bolivianos ($170) for a 50 pound bag
Adepcoca announces that 15,000 people will celebrate Coca Chewing Day in La Paz on March 12th
Peru declares a no-fly zone, over the VRAEM region, where coca leaf is grown
Due to infested coffee plants, farmers in Peru growing more coca leaf
Coca growers from Cochabamba will support the ruling party candidates (MAS) in upcoming elections
Could cocaine by the next medical treatment for depression?
Alternative agriculture products are displacing some coca farming in the Yungas of Bolivia
In Peru, the government has not reduced the acreage of illegal coca in the VRAEM
Opinion: how to integrate coca farming and food farming in Bolivia?
Alcohol and cigarettes are bigger health risks to a population than use of cocaine, amphetamine or marijuana
Questioning the inclusion of coca growers in a farming summit in Bolivia
Police in Bolivia will only eradicate 10,000 hectares of coca leaf in this year
Coca growers in Bolivia will lose their allocations if they have excessive cultivations
Radars detect illegal plantations of coca in national parks in Bolivia
Producers of Cochabamba will exhibit and will distribute coca and coca products at the Dakar 2015 rally
In Bolivia, coca growers of Shinahota demand freedom for three leaders
A judge in Bolivia sends to jail 2 coca growers for disruptive behavior in meeting with president Evo Morales
Bolivia wants to reduce coca growing from 23,000 to 20,000 hectares
Former coca growers in Monzon Valley (Huanaco, Peru) receive funds from the government
Bolivian government requests projects to treat confiscated illegal coca leaf
Lack of budget impedes the government (of Bolivia) of incinerating 3 million pounds of seized coca leaf
President Evo Morales begins eradication of 40 hectares of illegal coca in Carrasco National Park
Coca growers of Vandiola (Bolivia) end hunger strike
In 2014, Peru destroyed more than 31,000 hectares of coca plants
The coca leaf - satanized from colonial times
Coca, the sacred leaf of the Inca, Nazca and Mochica cultures
Opinion: more or less coca growing in Bolivia?
In Bolivia, President Evo Morales rejects coca plantations in the Yungas de Vandiola
In Bolivia, government breaks off discussions with coca growers from the Yungas, who are seeking to grow more coca leaf
In Bolivia, government breaks off discussions with coca growers from the Yungas, who are seeking to grow more coca leaf
Coca leaf producers in the Yungas (Bolivia) demand the government permit them to grow larger areas, 785 catos, of coca leaf (an increase of 49 catos)
A Bolivian artist, Efe Quispe, intends to break the taboo about the coca leaf with her works
Evo Morales and coca growers agree to a limit of 20,000 hectares, with no payment of taxes for production
Fifth International Forum on Coca Leaf held in Ecuador between October 29 and 30
The controversy of the coca leaf
A senator in the Colombian legislature demonstrates a tea made from coca leaf and marijuana
Lack of government support is forcing coffee growers in Bolivia to switch to growing coca leaf
The coca vice-ministry in Bolivia has confiscated two million pounds of poor quality coca leaf, and doesn't know what to do with it all
Banana growers in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia receive so little money from multinational exporters that they have no choice but to grow coca
Government in Bolivia adds coca cakes to food basket given to pregnant women and newborn babies during their first year of life
Medical study: sugar can be as addictive as heroin
The tough coca bush will not suffer much from global warming
The first billionarie in Nicaragua is head of the country's sugar cartel
Farmers in 16 provinces of Cochabamba (Bolivia) elect former coca grower as their candidate for Governor of the province
Opinion: seeking medical uses of our sacred coca leaf in Bolivia
In Apolo (Bolivia) in 2013, the government erradicated coca in a zone of traditional cultivation, which is allowed by law
Bolivian government earns about $50,000 per month from taxes on legal sales of coca leaf
The hard-hitting criticism of John Oliver is correct about the dangers of the sugar cartel
VIDEO: The hard-hitting criticism of John Oliver about the dangers of the sugar cartel
Assessing the feasibility of increased proliferation of the coca plant
Coca grower in Choro Grande (Yungas, Bolivia) is killed by local gold miners
Prohibitionist insanity about coca leaf is across the board from candidates for the presidency in Bolivia
Opposition presidential candidate in Bolivia promises to respect the "good" coca produced in the Yungas
Paying a tax on coca leaf sales in Bolivia - ending tax evasion, or helping to make the illegal to be legal?
Opposition politician in Bolivia wants to support coca grown in the Yungas (which is consumed) and eliminate coca grown in the Chapare (used for drugs)
In Bolivia, coca growers in Yungas region concerned about taxes on coca leaves being more favorable to coca growers in Chapare
In Bolivia, coca growers in Yungas region concerned about taxes on coca leaves being more favorable to coca growers in Chapare
Future law for coca will permit farming of 15,000 hectares in Bolivia
Government in Bolivia seeks to define a tax on coca sales, after proposals from two associations of coca growers
Coca growers in Bolivia (Adepcoca) propose a tax of 2 bolivianos for selling 50 pounds (one taque) of coca leaf
While many countries in the world are legalizing marijuana, and maybe other drugs, President Evo Morales is only advocating legalization of coca
Campaign platforms for the political parties of Bolivia with regards to the future of coca farming
Editorial: time for the Americas to start decriminalizing some drugs, such as marijuana and coca leaf
Campaign platforms for the political parties of Bolivia with regards to the future of coca farming
Editorial: time for the Americas to start decriminalizing some drugs, such as marijuana and coca leaf
In Bolivia, opposition candidate for the presidency pledges to have the government control coca farming in the Chapare
In Bolivia, political parties raise several options for new legislation on coca leaf farming
Discovery of the first coca plantation in Mexico could upend the cocaine business
Tax of 5 Bolivianos (for 50 pounds) on coca leaf will support the anti-drug fight in Bolivia
Coca growers in the Yungas (Bolivia) reject paying taxes of 5 Bolivianos per 50 pounds
Government of Peru to invest 1.5 billion soles (about $750 million) in the main coca growing region, the VRAEM
Coca growers in the Yungas (Bolivia) reject paying taxes of 5 Bolivianos per 50 pounds
Coca growers in Cochabamba (Bolivia) agree to pay taxes of 5 Bolivianos per 50 pounds
Editorial - the calamity of falling coffee production in Bolivia, due to low profits as compared to the farming of coca leaf
Yet another study finds that marijuana can help people who are afflicted with Alzheimer's disease
Coffee production in the Yungas is down 66% in the last ten years
Caballococha, a new growing coca growing region of Peru similar to the Vraem river valley region
Raising coca growing limits to 20,000 hectares, the task of the legislative candidates from the Cochabamba region of Bolivia
600,000 pounds of illegal coca leave were seized so far in the current fiscal year en Bolivia
Coca growers in Vandiola (Bolivia) wait for a meeting with President Morales to discuss the topic of acreage of coca growing
Coca growers in the Vandiola area of the Yungas (Bolivia) reject a government proposal and break-off their discussions
Coca leaf retailers in La Paz request the government create a state marketplace for coca leaf, saying Adepcoca facilities are unsafe and unclean
President Evo Morales announces the exportation from Bolivia of medicines by 2025
President Evo Morales is re-elected as director of federation of coca growers
Challenging the myths about production of coca paste in the Chapare
Community control of coca farming in Bolivia
Coca grower from Cochabamba is new director Digcoin
The poporo and the coca leaf of the indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada of Colombia
Cocaine paste production in the Chapare - can you get rich?
President Evo Morales delivers an association headquarters to coca growers of Oruro
Editorial: allowing coca farmers to sell more big bags of coca leaves (taques) leads to more demand which leads to more production - is that what Bolivia wants?
Coca growers in the Chapare (Bolivia) are nervous and upset after nine years that President Morales has not legalized their coca growing
The future of coca in Bolivia should be an important campaign issue in this year's elections
Government of Bolivia hopes to certify international companies to export Bolivian coca products to Ecuador
Government of Peru fails to eradicate coca growing in the VRAEM region
Is tea the new "coffee" of the United States?
Wholesalers of coca leaf in La Paz will be able to sell 8 large bags (taques) of coca leaf every eight days (limit is now six), with 1.2 million pounds of coca leaf wholesaled now each month
Political positions of presidential candidates in Bolivia with regards to coca
Editorial: the contradictory policies of the promotion, while eradicating, coca in Bolivia must be resolved
Legal sellers of coca leaf in Bolivia say that "much" coca leaf is diverted towards illegal activities
Yungas coca growers in Vandiola demand the government legalize more catos of coca in this traditional area of cultivation
In Bolivia, the government approved a resolution that permits increasing the quota of selling coca sales by coca producers, from six to eight 'taques' (each of 50 pounds of leaves)
In Bolivia, the government approved a resolution that permits increasing the quota of selling coca sales by coca producers, from six to eight 'taques' (each of 50 pounds of leaves)
In Bolivia, the government approved a resolution that permits increasing the quota of selling coca sales by coca producers, from six to eight 'taques' (each of 50 pounds of leaves)
In Bolivia, after elections, president Morales plans to legalize having one cato of coca for growing
In Bolivia, after elections, president Morales plans to legalize having one cato of coca for growing
In Bolivia, after elections, president Morales plans to legalize having one cato of coca for growing
World Health Organization calls for the decriminalization of drug use
President Evo Morales (Bolivia) says that all can campaign in the Chapare
Operations stop at Pan American's mine in Potosi (Bolivia) as workers go on strike after chewing coca was banned
Tuto (opposition candidate in Bolivia) says he will campaign in the Chapare (depsite threats) and propose controls for coca production
Coca growers warn the opposition (in Bolivia) that they will not be permitted to campaign in the Chapare
In 2014, Peru invested US $150 million in alternative development in coca valleys
Yungas coca growers in Bolivia request resignations of Felipe Cáceres and Modesto Condori (DIGCOIN)
In Colombia, rural farmers don't have an alternative to coca growing
Coca growers in Yungas region of Bolivia demand the expansion of the commercialization of a greater quantity of coca leaf
In Bolivia, civic groups demand that coca growers pay taxes according to the law
Bolivia draws its own future for coca
Coca growers near Cusco threaten new protests if government of Peru doesn't pay more for their coca leaf, as promised
The government of Bolivia hopes to export coca tea to Ecuador and Cuba
In Bolivia, the government is considering applying a tax to the sale of coca leaf, with coca producers in agreement
United Nations considers obsolete Law 1008 of Bolivia that permits some coca farming
In Bolivia, United Nations considers that it is urgent to modify Law 1008
In Bolivia, rising commercialization of the "sacred coca"
UN: Bolivia reduces from 25,300 to 23,000 the hectares of coca farming, and is on the road to the goal of 20,000 hectares
Margarita Terán Gonzales, new leader of coca growers in Cochabamba in Bolivia
The coca industrialization agency of Bolivia, DIGCOIN, seizes 3 million kilos of illegal coca leaf so far in 2014, which university labs convert to fertilizer
Factory for coca leaf products in La Paz (Villa El Carmen) opened in 2013 with machinery prodived by the government, is still not operating commercially
In Bolivia, Yungas coca growers should each produce 1 cato (1600 sq. meters) of citrus fruits
MAS political party in Bolivia requests the government to suggest to the UN that coca leaf be decriminalized
Coca growers of Coripata (Bolivia) achieved recognition as a federation, and block traffic to the Yungas
President of Peru, Ollanta Humala, was correct to fire the head of Peru's anti-drug agency, for launching a plan of forced eradication of coca
Government of Peru wants 5000 less hectares of coca grown in the Vraem, where are grown 60,000 hectares of coffee and 40,000 hectares of cacao
Peru to stop trying to eradicate coca leaf, and will promote other crops
Government of Peru wants to eliminate 5000 of the 18000 hectares of coca farming in the Vraem
In Bolivia, the government will invest $87,000 for the design of the first center for scientific investigation which will benefit 34,000 Yungas families
In Bolivia, Adepcoca manages the exportation of bimate to Ecuador
United Kingdom will include revenues from sales of illegal cocaine in its count of the country's GDP
Italy will include revenues from sales of illegal cocaine in its count of the country's GDP
European Union will not support industrialization of coca in Bolivia
Coca growers don't want eradication nor alternative crops in the Vraem (a region of Peru)
En Peru, 8000 coca growers paralyzed the VRAEM protesting eradication, marching in Kimbiri
So many people in Britain (2%) use so much cocaine that it is now in the water supply
In the Catatumbo region of Colombia, coca is grown for survival
Five reasons why efforts to fumigate coca are a failure in Colombia
Six reasons why the drug policy proposal of the FARC makes sense - the FARC proposed to the government for the first time that it study how to make a transition from illicit crops to other sustainable alternatives for the peasants who live there
Tocache, Peru - their transition from growing coca to growing cacao
Peru: coca leaf, militarization and decriminalization of marijuana - an interview with Baldomero Cáceres Santa María
Ambassador William Brownfield of the United States promotes in Colombia a policy of fumigation and forced eradication of coca declared by the European Union as a failure in Afghanistan
President Uribe gets it wrong again with proposal to crackdown on Colombia's coca growers
Five winners of the Nobel Prize in economics release a report "Ending the Drug Wars", published by London School of Economics
Babies exposed to coca alkaloids do not experience brain damage, but do experience brain damage due to poverty
Between 1997 and 2014, the European Union provided $166 million in funding to Bolivia to help coca growers in Bolivia to grow other products
In last ten years, U.S. has spent $10 billion in Afghanistan fighting opium, and completely failed, with opium production reaching a high in 2013
In Yungas region of Bolivia, citrus and coffee farming gradually being replaced by coca leaf growing
Bolivian coca growers protest in front of U.S. Embassy (in La Paz) that coca leaf is not a drug
Bolivian government to call for debate on coca industrialization at UN meeting in Vienna
Government of Bolivia announces advances in the medical use of coca with the help of Cuba
Coca growers celebrate national day of coca chewing in Bolivia
UN Drug Control office document for release next week suggests for first time that some drugs be decriminalized
UN Drug Control office document for release next week suggests for first time that some drugs be decriminalized
Government of Bolivia highlights UN's INCB report that Bolivia is making progress eradicating coca cultivation
Andean Parliament declares that coca leaf in its natural state as the "Ancestral and Cultural Heritage of the Andean People"
European Union asks for clarification on coca consumption in border areas of Bolivia
U.S. Pentagon considers using electricity to stimulate troops' brains to supplement stimulants such as caffeine
Bolivian political parties request report about old machines bought for a government manufacturing plant for coca tea installed in Adepcoca facilities in Villa Fatima section of La Paz
Horrible living conditions of 30,000 black/green tea plantation serfs in India
Colombia's FARC rebel group and their support for coca industrialization and new medical/health uses
CL Trading (Hong Kong) now manufacturing Cocalero, an alcoholic drink (29%) made with cocaine-free coca flavoring
Colombia's FARC guerilla group proposes that the Colombian government implement a policy that recognizes the medical benefits of coca leaf
In Bolivia, time to expand the national debate about coca policies
Bolivian government denounces those Venezuelans, Colombians and Peruvians growing coca in Bolivia's Apolo border region
Bolivian government denounces those Venezuelans, Colombians and Peruvians growing coca in Bolivia's Apolo border region
While president of the G77+China, Evo Morales will champion the importance and beneficial uses of coca leaf
In Bolivia, Evo Morales urges coca growers to not grow coca in the national parks
The coca leaf massage - a new therapy from South American spas to relieve muscle ache
Evo Morales will use his presidency of the G77 to promote the culture and medical uses of coca
Evo Morales will use his presidency of the G77 to promote the culture and medical uses of coca
55,000 families in Peru join program to farm crops other than coca leaf
Editorial: the economy of coca is still mostly driven by illegal uses
Government in Bolivia seeking to regulate traditional medicines
South America needs co-ordinated response to combat scourge of cocaine
Manufacturing Cerveza de Coca, coca beer, in Bolivia
U.N. Office of Drug Control (UNODC) to send Bolivia's country study of coca to Vienna for analysis
UN Drug Control agency (UNODC) hopes recent government coca report in Bolivia will lead to a new policy for regulating coca farming
Interview of Fabiola Piñacué, coca products entrepreneur in Bogota
Growing coca in Bolivia should not be at expense of growing food
Colombia's Attorney General: Colombia can't unilaterally legalize cultivation of coca due to international consensus
Opinion: is there really an international market for industralizing coca in Bolivia?
A visit to a hidden coca plantation in Peru
The racist lies behind the myth of coca's evilness
European Union is satisfied with Bolivia's report on coca, and will continue its financial support for 2014-2020
Bolivia's study of coca growth and use is unprecedented for its detailed data gathering and analysis
Bolivian government study of coca use gathered detailed country data
Opinion of former president Carlos Mesa Gisbert: properly managing the future of coca in Bolivia
Bolivia's agricultural innovation agency, INIAF, funding research to lower the costs of foods
Bolivian Minister of Government Carlos Romero is interviewed about recent government report on coca growth
Coca growers in Bolivia will debate about how much legal coca growing is needed
UN reminds Bolivia that export of coca, without removing alkaloids, is still in violation of the 1961 UN treaty
UN reminds Bolivia that export of coca, without removing alkaloids, is still in violation of the 1961 UN treaty
Government of Bolivia plans to eliminate 10,000 hectares of coca farming by 2016
Government of Bolivia plans to eliminate 10,000 hectares of coca farming by 2016
PDF file of results of Bolivian government study on legal use of coca
Government of Bolivia affirms that changing coca laws is not on its agenda
Ruling MAS party in Bolivia wants to change law to increase coca growing to 20,000 hectares
OAS will look with "much attention" to coca industrialization in Bolivia
OAS will look with "much attention" to coca industrialization in Bolivia
30% of people in Bolivia regularly use coca
30% of people in Bolivia regularly use coca
The agricultural sector in Bolivia demands to be able to grow more legal coca
Bolivian government study concludes that there are 3 million consumers of coca products, which needs 14,700 hectares to supply
Bolivian government study concludes that there are 3 million consumers of coca products, which needs 14,700 hectares to supply
Of 20,690 tons of coca leaf harvested, only 73 tons are used industrially, with 19,000 tons used in homes
Opinion: inconsistencies in government's report on coca growth and use
58% of Bolivia's coca crop goes to traditional uses
Government study reports that traditional use of coca in Bolivia requires 14,700 hectares
Government study reports that traditional use of coca in Bolivia requires 14,700 hectares
Government study reports that traditional use of coca in Bolivia requires 14,700 hectares
Modesto Condori is new head of coca industrialization agency (Digcoin) in Bolivia
Bolivian government downplays opposition gossip that new report shows only 6000 hectares of coca growing is needed
Bolivian scientist Franklin Alcatraz says traditional consumption of coca in Bolivia only needs 8000 hectares
Coca tea and coca leaf chewing as one element in a strategy to reduce harmful effects of drug abuse
Growing number of MAS ruling-party members supporting an increase in the legal acreage for coca growing in Bolivia
Growing number of MAS ruling-party members supporting an increase in the legal acreage for coca growing in Bolivia
Next week, Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, releases study on consumption of coca in Bolivia
Bolivian Minister of Government Carlos Romero: acreage for legal coca growing is not for political negotiation
Cost of commercial coca license will remain at 1200 bolivianos for next five years
Peasant workers' trade union (CSUCB) wants a new study of coca use in Bolivia conducted by consumers and producers, not consultants
Next Monday, coca growers will be shown government report on amount of hectares needed for legal coca growing
Minister of Government Romero says deadline for government study of legal coca use was a promise of previous governments of Bolivia
Minister of Government Romero says deadline for government study of legal coca use was a promise of previous governments
Legal coca growers in Chapare need more legal support to prevent illegal plantings of coca
Students in Northern Argentinian town win educational contest with a liquor made from coca leaves
Pijchea/akulliku (ball of coca to be chewed) is most common use of coca leaf, followed by coca tea
Guatemala's foreign minister, Fernando Carrera, calls for some drugs to be legalized to end drug trafficking
Coca growers of Caranavi and Apolo hope their third coca market, now with a temporary authorization, will be legalized under new law
In Bolivia, Head of governing ruling party, MAS' Eugenio Rojas, suggests that new coca law specify a varying level of legal coca production
Coca growers in Yungas and Cochabamba to meet discuss how much more coca cultivation they will seek for their regions
Head of legal coca growers association (Adepcoca), Ernesto Cordero, complains of illegal coca market near their legal facilities in Villa Fatima
Arowana fish cultivation as an alternative to growing coca in the Colombian Amazon region
Bolivian economist Roberto Laserna says government should be more clear about its coca policies
Coca growers in Peru seeing profit and peace in switching from coco to cacao cultivation
Bolivian government supports legislative efforts to increase legal coca production to 20,000 hectares
Gumercindo Pucho, vice minister of coca development, says it is absurd to claim that Bolivia only needs 6,000 hectares of legal coca growth
While coca growing dropped from 64,000 hectares in 2011 to 48,000 in 2012, in Colombia, many farmers just switched to illegal gold mining
Head of MSM party says European Union report on coca states that Bolivia only needs 6,000 hectares of coca growth for local consumption
Bolivian Senate considering increasing legal coca cultivation from 12,000 hectares to 20,000 hectares
Sharp rise in coca prices in Cochabamba, from US $200 to almost US $300 for a 50 pound sack/taque
How DEA policies, counter-intuitively, force many coca growers into the arms of drug traffickers
Coca - the plant that feeds Peru, and the farmers that grow it
Chewing coca leaf combats obesity
Lawyer Yuri Garamendi assume head of DIGCOIN, Bolivia's coca industrialization agency
Bolivian ruling party deputies see need to improve the laws regulating the commercialization of coca leaf
UK Parliament members urged in report to lift ban on use of coca leaf
Remote Peruvian valley of Pichari is number one coca growing valley of the world
Bolivia will send to Ecuador a proposal to export coca products
President Morales hopes to sign agreement with Ecuador to export industrialied coca products, such as tea, to Ecuador
Bolivia expects to sign agreement with Ecuador to export industrialied coca products, such as tea, to Ecuador
Bolivia expects to sign agreement with Ecuador to export industrialied coca products, such as tea, to Ecuador
Amazon fruits and organic chocolate are taking over from coca in Colombia
Licenses for selling coca leaf to rise from 600 to 1200 bolivianos
Crushed coca leaves and quinoa is good for your skin
Foreign legalization of coca commercialization
Government promises to deliver report on coca consumption in October
UN says Bolivia is obligated to present study on national legal demand for coca for purposes such as chewing and medical consumption
UN says Bolivia is obligated to present study on national legal demand for coca for purposes such as chewing and medical consumption
Bolivia's vice minister for drug control, Felipe Caceres, says coca consumption study will be ready in October
Drug trafficking - another threat to Bolivia's Gran Chaco ecosystem
Peru now first in production of coca leaf (62,500 hectares), surpassing Colombia (48,000 hectares)
Hypocrisy of U.S. decertifying Bolivia, but not Colombia or Peru, for its drug control efforts
Government and MAS party strongly criticizes U.S. government report that says Bolivia is failing to fight drug trafficking
U.S. condemns war on drugs in Bolivia - Bolivia says complaint is contradictory
Better controls needed for use of pesticides in coca farming
UMSS Food Center study (done at request of MSM Senator Julio Salazar) shows only 2 percent of the 20 percent of coca protein are absorbed, low compared to soy protein absorption
European Union will support market for products derived from coca
Colombia's fight against the coca trade
Illegal coca plantings discovered in Comarapa, close to Amboro national park, government worried about incursions of such plantings into national parks
European Union will give $8 million to reduce demand for cocaine in the Andean Community
Government studying outbreak of coca plant fungus to see where to move plantings
UN Office of Drug Control will measure, in first half of 2014, Bolivia's capacity for cocaine production
Bolivia touts coca flour as a way for cocaine addicts to kick the habit
Bolivia plans effort to turn coca into a prestigious plant
European Union will give Bolivia $33 million to diversify agriculture in Bolivia to reduce coca growing
Bolivian government hopes to have coca leaf sales legalized in northern Argentina
Foreign coca specialists admit that there are internal and external fears about sales of coca products
Don Carmelo Flores, happy and healthy at 123 years of age, thanks to quinoa and coca
Proposal to export coca leaf flour to use to treat cocaine addiction
Fungus infecting coca plants may require coca farmers to change location of their plantings
Government investigating why coca plants in Chapare are drying out, either due to fungus or pesticides
For second year, coca production has dropped 7% (2400 hectares) in Bolivia
59% of the coca produced in Bolivia does not go to legal markets
UN Office of Drug Control presents report on cultivation of coca in Bolivia
President Morales seeks to export mate de coca to ALBA countries
After $11 million investment by government, Ebococa coca manufacturing plant stands mostly idle due to lack of demand
Profiting from pain in the U.S. - 240 million prescriptions for legal opioid drugs in 2012 with sales totalling $8.34 billion - legal drug cartels
Coca toothpaste? Bolivia tries to drum up demand for 'legal' coca products
New Bolivian beer made from coca leaf
Bolivian consumers reject coca-based foods because of the taste of coca-flavored foods
Bolivia's challenge: making coca palatable
The defined line between coca and cocaine
Government of Bolivia initiates new study about the legal uses of coca
Mauricio Mamani Pocoaca: Coca-cocaine - between the irony and reality of few alternative uses
Organization of American States report pushes for regional coca leaf market, and legalizing marijuana
Finding coca tea for sale in Bogota
Bolivia's Evo Morales recommends coca wine to next Pope
Former U.S. federal prosecutors who used to fight drugs, now switching sides and defending accused drug traffickers
The Bolivian coca leaf
Evo Morales wins UN recognition of rights of Bolivians to chew coca
Coca licensing is a weapon in Bolivia's drug war
IberoAmerican Chamber of Cadiz will support coca chewing
Hollywood actor Sean Penn asked to become ambassador for Bolivia to defend coca leaf chewing
Bolivian chancellor Choquehuanca says 120 non-aligned countries support the right of Bolivians to chew coca
Colombia's chief public prosecutor, Alejandro Ordóñez, calls for referendum in Colombia to legalize some drug consumption
'Decocainized' coca leaf extract debuts for weight management sector
Why Bolivian President Morales still heads coca growers union
Two state-owned coca companies in Chapare are not operating
The Colombian House of Representatives passes 1st draft of bill that would legalize farming of coca and marijuana
The "coca diplomacy" of Evo Morales
U.S. anti-coca growing efforts in Peru embitters Peruvian chocolate farmers given inferior cocoa hybrid to plant as an alternative
DIGCOIN starts project to use turn seized coca into food, cardboard and paper
Bolivian government rejects U.N. report on coca chewing
Ebococa lanza el "panetón de coca" para esta Navidad
A coca farmer in Bolivia earns upto 5 times the national minimum wage of 815 bolivianos
Tired of coffee? This tea has cocaine!
Coca is not cocaine
Products of Ebococa will be sold throughout Bolivia
Bolivia's illegal coca becomes compost for fertilizer, rather than cocaine
Peru must consider decriminalizing recreational drug use, according to former president Alejandro Toledo
Spain supports Bolivia in its campaign to decriminalize use of coca leaf
Coca puts fizz in new Bolivian energy drink, Coca Brynco
Coca leaf liquor launched in UK at London Fashion Week parties
Need more calcium and don't want milk? Try the coca leaf
New coca-leaf energy drink, Coca Colla, hits the market
Evo Morales - "Let me chew my coca leaves"
Coca leaves are not cocaine, Evo Morales insists
Legislators in Peru's Congress defend traditional coca use
Fighting for the right to chew coca
UN needs to chew on its [anti-coca] drug policy
Hugo Chavez's support for coca leaf and coca efforts of Bolivia's Morales
Bolivians seek world market for coca cures
The coca leaf, benefits of traditional use smothered by drug policy
Coca growers in Bolivia turn a new leaf
Bolivians request that Coca Cola Company no longer use the word "coca"
Brazilian football coach bans players from drinking coca tea when they are in Peru for Copa America games
Yungas coca growers seek industrialization of coca but split on its legalization
Peruvian chef looks beyond cocaine to create coca-leaf cuisine
In Coroico, Bolivia: coca, poverty and hope
The president of Peru, Alan Garcia, recommends coca leaf
Osteoporosis free by eating coca leaf? One Peruvian boy did so.
Of tin mines, coca leaves and eternal recurrence
The coca plant paradox - a simple leaf with a complicated history
Coca yes, cocaine no? Legal options for the coca leaf
Coffee, coca and a clash of cultures between Bolivia and the U.S.
Bolivian official tells U.S. Congress that a healthy breakfast can include coca
Bolivia's knot: no to cocaine, but yes to coca
Cola-leaf beverage packs extra lift in each mouthful - Coca Sek from the Nasa people of southern Colombia is a carbonated coca tea
Genetically modified coca bush boosts levels of coca alkaloids
How Evo Morales has championed Bolivia's coca farmers
El Alto journal: a cup of coca tea, anyone? Bolivia sees a market
Coca leaf in Peru has an ancient mystique
Cultivation of coca leaves - a pillar of the Bolivian economy
Cup of coca: not so nice [flavor for Americans]
Health benefits found in chewing coca leaf
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