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Potential production of cocaine in Colombia and the area sown with coca, the drug's base ingredient, rose last year to their highest levels in two decades of monitoring, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Thursday.
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Colombia, the world's leading cocaine producer, broke its own record for coca leaf cultivation in 2021, a UN body said Thursday, as the government highlighted the "failure" of the US-led war on drugs.
The Colombian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that cocaine seizures in 2022 added up to a record 671 metric tons..
The wave of drugs arriving in countries like Fiji starts in the jungles of South America where ‘coca is everything’
The United Nations published a report on Monday finding "record-high" cocaine production around the world in 2020.
Colombia's police force said a newspaper misreported Tuesday that it suspended operations to forcibly eradicate coca fields as the country's new leftist government seeks to change its approach to dealing with illegal drugs.
The area occupied by coca crops in Colombia expanded to 245,000 hectares (605,408 acres) at the end of 2020, and cocaine production capacity rose to 1,010 metric tons a year, the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) said on Friday.
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Colombias new police director says the country has suspended forced eradication of coca fields and will focus on intercepting cocaine shipments while providing farmers with incentives to adopt legal crops
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... illegal coca plant cultivation in South America reached a new high in 2021, increasing sharply by 35 percent from 2020... <meta name=
SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia The grizzled farmers had come on motorcycles and in pickups from jungle homesteads to a soccer field hours from the nearest town of any...
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Mexico's Sinaloa, Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Zetas and Beltran Leyva drug cartels are the top buyers and traffickers of cocaine produced by criminal groups in Colombia, including current and former leftist rebels, according to a high-ranking Colombian security official.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday authorized the use of drones to fumigate coca leaves at low altitude using the herbicide glyphosate as part of the Andean nation's battle to eliminate the plant's use in cocaine production. Santos, who leaves office in August, approved the measure a day after the United States said Colombia's coca cultivation had increased 11 percent to 209,000 hectares (516,450 acres) in 2017 and potential cocaine output had risen 19 percen
Colombian President Gustavo Petro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly to call for an end to America's war on drugs."
President says Otoniels arrest is the biggest blow to drug trafficking in Colombia since Pablo Escobars death.
Colombia hopes the U.S. government under President-elect Joe Biden will maintain a $5 billion investment program to boost economic and social development, as well as improve security in regions affected by drug-related violence, President Ivan Duque said on Wednesday.
Iván Duque decries social acceptability of drug that inflicts environmental and social damage on producers
Colombias potential next president, Gustavo Petro, has stated that he considers sugar a more dangerous substance than cocaine.
A high-ranking terrorist in the FARC invested $1.6 million to kill Colombian President Ivn Duque, a top police official revealed last week.
Anti-drug agents have arrested a 28-year-old British woman at Lima's international airport for attempting to carry 5kg of cocaine onto a flight to Madrid.
Colombia top cocaine producer despite shrinking coca fields: UN
BOGOTA: The area occupied by coca crops in Colombia expanded to 245,000 hectares (605,408 acres) at the end of 2020,...
A picture campaign highlighting the devastation caused in Colombia by the production of cocaine for markets in Europe and America came to London on Wednesday before heading across Europe.
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Cocaine has humble and inexpensive origins, but a noxious, labor-intensive process turns it into one of the most valuable products in the world.
Production of cocaine has spiked in Colombia, and government efforts to crack down on it have been stymied.
A voluntary coca crop substitution initiative in Colombia is failing. It is still the country’s best option to address its cocaine production problem.
Cocaine Traffickers Seen Changing Tactics and Routes to Satisfy Rich U.S., European Markets
The walls of buildings in this port city, a hotbed of the drug traffic in Colombia, are scrawled with the slogan, "Extradition Is Treason."
"We'll fight whoever comes and touches our plants," a farmer said of his coca crops. "We're organized and will fight to the death if necessary."
New figures indicate last year's coca production has expanded across an area more than twice the size of New York City
Cocaine Traffickers Seen Changing Tactics and Routes to Satisfy Rich U.S., European Markets
Reports suggest coca cultivation rose again in Colombia in 2016, marking a third straight year of increases.
PUERTO SUAREZ, Bolivia -- The view into Brazil from this Bolivian border city is of an Amazon jungle paradise: an endless green horizon broken only by a patch of urban skyline reflected in a shimmering lagoon.
Explosives experts wearing heavy body armor light a fuse and take cover behind a concrete-reinforced trench.
U.S. cocaine overdose deaths are at a 10-year high, and between 2013 and 2015, the number of young Americans who said they used cocaine for the first time increased 61 per cent.
The United States is pouring $1.3 billion into Colombia to support the same carrot-and-stick strategy that has failed over the past decade to stem the flow of drugs. The difference now is that the stick is bigger and the stakes are higher. Sibylla Brodzinsky reports.
Colombian peasants talk about the situation for coca farmers in the country's south.
Mexican cartels are using Peru - the world's top cocaine producer - as a place to expand their operations into Europe, authorities have found.
Cultivation of plant used to make cocaine climbed 18% last year compared to 2015, with an estimated 188,000 hectares containing crops despite US efforts
Peru dethrones Colombia as cocaine king
Increased drug traffic along the Brazil-Bolivian border leads officials to believe that more Bolivian cocaine is reaching the U.S. and beyond.
The plant destroyers earn $17 a day, or about $510 a month, which in Peru is a little more than double the minimum wage. It's a lot more than the average $2 a day earned by farmers who often live in miserable conditions.
At the coca market in this remote jungle village, where farmers lug 50-pound bags of coca leaves for miles on their backs and bicycles, the talk is of little else but the demands by the United States that Bolivia cut its coca production. "I don't care how much pressure they put on us to stop growing coca, we will never give this up because we have no other means to survive," said Delfin Olivera, a 24-year-old farmer. "Coca is natural, it's part of our culture, and it has been
Amid rising cocaine production, Colombia is being forced to rethink its anti-drug strategy again, taking into account the possibility of a more stable future now that the government has reached a cease-fire deal with rebels that will take effect once a final accord is signed, probably in the coming weeks.
Edma Duran uses a machete to salvage the leaves she can from the family's coca plot, which government workers have just destroyed in an record-breaking U.S.-backed eradication campaign that has affected roughly a half million Peruvians.
Edma Duran uses a machete to salvage the leaves she can from the family's coca plot, which government workers have just destroyed in an record-breaking U.S.-backed eradication campaign that has affected roughly a half million Peruvians.
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Aggressive eradication programs and better alternatives for poor farmers are being credited with reducing the acreage under coca cultivation in Colombia by 25% last year. The total area of coca, the base material for cocaine, was estimated at 120,000 acres, down from 160,000...
PUERTO SUAREZ, Bolivia -- The view into Brazil from this Bolivian border city is of an Amazon jungle paradise: an endless green horizon broken only by a patch of urban skyline reflected in a shimmering lagoon.
Peasants say there are few alternatives to the cocaine trade.
Increased drug traffic along the Brazil-Bolivian border leads officials to believe that more Bolivian cocaine is reaching the U.S. and beyond.
A new U.N. report confirms the country's new status as lead producer of illegal coca plant derivatives
Fifty leaders of the Colombian rebel group FARC, described as "narcoterrorists" by U.S. authorities, have been indicted in Washington for allegedly exporting more than $25 billion worth of cocaine to the U.S. and other countries, Justice Department officials announced Wednesday.
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Production of coca and potential production of cocaine in Colombia reached its highest recorded levels in two decades, the U.N. revealed.
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by Austin BaySeptember 13, 2016On August 24, leaders of the "nominally Marxist" Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia agreed to what they called a "definitive ceasefire" with the pro-U.S.
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So far in 2021, homicides have risen by nearly 3% to 316, up from 308 at the same point in 2020, preliminary Chicago police statistics through June 23 show. Shootings incidents where at least one person was struck by gunfire non-fatally or fatally jumped by 12%, to 1,438 from 1,283 in the same period last year, the statistics show.
Hundreds of the former fighters who demobilised under a 2016 peace deal, recently marched to demand better security.
A plan to increase U.S. troops in Colombia is drawing opposition not just from left-wing populist leaders in the region but from the moderate governments of Brazil and Chile as well.
Colombia is leaving behind its painful history of drug trafficking.
More than 2000 outlawed paramilitary fighters under the command of accused drug lord Diego Murillo have laid down their arms in Colombia’s biggest demobilisation ceremony in years.
Move comes days after the group and the Colombian government marked the five-year anniversary of a peace accord.
Colombians vote Sunday to draw up a shortlist of candidates for presidential elections polls suggest may yield the country's first-ever leftist leader.
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Thousands of people took to the streets across Colombia on Sunday to protest terrorism after a Marxist terrorist group attacked last week.
Tens of thousands of workers and peasants carried out demonstrations and blocked highways in an August 19 strike against the US-backed government of President Juan Manuel Santos.
Colombia's new president is a tough rightwinger who has devoted his political career to campaigning to rid the country of the rebels who killed his father 19 years ago.
This compound in the mountains southwest of Bogota was supposed to be abandoned by now, its white pre-fab houses and water treatment plant dismantled, its residents packed up and gone.
Accord negotiated in Havana to oversee demobilisation of rebels plus their rehabilitation and participation in politics.
The killing of 10 hostages in a botched rescue attempt Monday sent the shell-shocked Colombian press into an even deeper slough of despond. When the...
One of Colombias most wanted paramilitary leaders has been flown back to his home country after spending 12 years in U.S. prisons for drug trafficking
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EMS responded to 11 suspected cases in one 24-hour period earlier in the week.
Drugs found washed up at beaches are usually the byproduct of illicit, maritime drug smuggling
So let's get this straight. Current Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington tested positive for cocaine just after the 2009 All-Star break, yet Major League Baseball did nothing to punish ...
A study led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has identified a potential target for therapies to treat cocaine addiction. In their study published in Molecular Psychiatry, the investigators find evidence that changing one amino acid in a subunit of an important receptor protein alters whether cocaine-experienced animals will resume drug seeking after a period of cocaine abstinence.
Police stopped him for speeding and found almost 1kg of cocaine on the backseat, the court heard.
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The rapper faces a minimum prison sentence of five years and a maximum of 40 years.
More than a sixth of the cocaine consumed in France is smuggled inside the bodies of drug mules from its poverty-stricken South American region of Guiana.
Bruno Mars was dealt a lucky hand after receiving probation for his Las Vegas cocaine arrest. Mars, a recent Grammy winner, was placed on probation after his arrest in September for cocaine possession.
New Zealand police have found more than 3 tons of cocaine floating in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean after it was dropped there by an international drug-smuggling syndicate
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Airport officials became suspicious after they found fresh operation scars below the woman's breasts.
Southwest border ports, including six in Arizona, were among the busiest spots for drug trafficking, according to a study of large-scale drug arrests.
Cocaine Bear was a hit at the box office this weekend, which means two new Funko POP! figures inspired by Elizabeth Banks' dark comedy.
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Pop icon Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning after taking cocaine that may have triggered a heart attack, Los Angeles County coroners announced Thursday. Houston, 48, died in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel last month.
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Shrimp in five UK rivers have tested positive for trace amounts of cocaine. This is just one example of drug-filled shellfish around the world.
Federal drug agents say candy-flavored cocaine is a new development and are devoting significant resources to keep it from spreading nationwide after its recent emergence in California.
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Drugs were removed from the 16 pieces of luggage and replaced with flour. One of the leaders of the plot remains on the run, officials say.
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A California man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for heading a drug-trafficking ring that brought massive amounts of heroin and cocaine from Mexico to Chicago aboard Amtrak trains, prosecutors said. US
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