The area of land planted with coca leaf — the raw material for cocaine — rose 10% last year, to 253,000 hectares, according to a report published Friday by the United Nations Office on Drugs ...
JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP via Getty Bags of "pink cocaine" "Sometimes it contains cocaine, but very frequently it contains very little amounts of cocaine," he explains. "It's usually a mix of what ...
Source: The Washington Post FARC rebels and other criminal groups in Colombia have become central players in the international cocaine trade. FARC groups are believed to have "franchised" parts of ...
BOGOTA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 10% last year to reach the largest area in over two decades, a report by ...
Colombian Coca Leaf Farming Hit Two-Decade High in 2023, UN Says By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine ...