Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying ...

Coca cultivation in Honduras spread to 16 municipalities in 2024 indicating that the crop has become an established criminal ...

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

according to the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime. A report published in October by the international organization found that the cultivation of coca bushes increased by 10% in Colombia in ...

The initiative aims to eradicate 25,000 hectares of coca bushes within 140 days while maintaining military operations against ...

which has since underpinned international drug policy. In 2011, President Evo Morales (the country's first Indigenous ruler and a former coca producer and union leader) notified the UN that ...

The threat of GLP-1 drugs to The Coca-Cola Co. and beverage sector more broadly is likewise overstated, suggested Quincey. While he agreed that “we continue to see anecdotal evidence of the ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.

Petro has accused the rebels of trying to take over the region to control its coca crops and its drug-trafficking routes. Cocaine production in Colombia has been rising since 2013, according to ...

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia asked the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, from its list of harmful substances. At a commission ...