4 days ago · Colombia is the world’s top producer and exporter of cocaine, mainly to the United States and Europe, and the government has spent decades fighting drug trafficking.

5 days ago · Colombia, the world's largest producer and exporter of cocaine, has spent decades fighting drug trafficking, but the country's left-wing president claimed the drug was being scapegoated by American politicians, who have waged the war on drugs for decades.

Stacks of cocaine seized by the Colombian police. The illegal drug trade in Colombia has, since the 1970s, centered successively on four major drug trafficking cartels: Medellín, Cali, Norte del Valle, and North Coast, as well as several bandas criminales, or BACRIMs. [1]

5 days ago · Colombia is by far the world's biggest cocaine producer, and cultivation of coca leaves — the drug's base ingredient — reached a record high in the country in 2023, the UN Office on Drugs and ...

Jul 13, 2024 · Colombia, the global nexus of the cocaine industry, where Pablo Escobar became the world’s best-known criminal, and which still produces more of the drug than any other nation, is facing...

Oct 18, 2024 · Cultivation of coca bush in Colombia increased by 10 per cent in 2023 to 253,000 hectares, while potential cocaine production reached 2,664 metric tons, according to a new survey released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today.

Sep 12, 2023 · Colombia is the top coca cultivator in the world, producing 60% of the world's cocaine, followed by Peru and Bolivia. President Gustavo Petro on Saturday appealed to his regional counterparts...

Nov 22, 2022 · Drug production boomed in Colombia during the pandemic. The total area harvested for coca leaves – the main ingredient for cocaine – grew 43% in 2021 according to a new annual survey by the...

Colombia and the United States aim to sustainably reduce Colombia’s cocaine production and coca cultivation to 50 percent of 2017 levels by the end of 2023. This goal was reaffirmed at the most recent Counternarcotics Working Group meeting in March 2020.

5 days ago · Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose nation is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter.