Used not only for cocaine, the coca leaf is also chewed as a stimulant in countries such as Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, or brewed into a tea thought to combat altitude sickness.

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Bolivia's Minister of Rural Development and ... Ministry of Rural and Agricultural Development, the Vice-Ministry of Coca and Integral Development, and the Vice-Ministry of Lands.

The region is famous for its silver mines, and is the only place in the world where you are legally allowed to buy dynamite - ...

In addition, there are direct recommendations to address systemic racism and legislate better systems of policing, ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...

A group of artisans and two designers from Bogotá are determined to recover the plant’s ancestral use as a pigment and ...

Westerners' consumption of a little-known tree gum – used in everything from Coca-Cola and Nestlé pet food to L'Oréal lipsticks and M&M sweets – could be funding both sides in Sudan's bitter ...

Bolivia's state energy company YBFB will use cryptocurrency to pay for energy imports, according to a Reuters report. YBFB hopes that using crypto will be a direct solution to the nation's ...

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Last year, a report from Bloomberg suggested The Coca-Cola Co. was pursuing a purchase of Austin, Texas-based Poppi. Founded by husband and wife Stephen and Allison Ellsworth, Poppi’s low-calorie, low ...