In a tropical corner of Bolivia, on a compound owned by a radio station that caters to growers of the plant often used to make cocaine, a former president is ...

Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela... must truly breathe democracy ... Easy to say, but difficult to do. For the peasants who grow coca leaves to stop doing so and for us to pay for it. But at the same time there ...

A short drive north of Bolivia’s capital La Paz, deep in the lush green valleys of the Yungas, Alicia Calle, a middle-aged Indigenous cocalero (coca farmer), plucked the leaves off the shrubs on ...

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

Cuba’s power grid failed Friday night, leaving millions of the island nation’s 10 million residents in the dark. The outage, which began around 8 p.m. Eastern time, affected most of western ...

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.

In 2023, the South American country set a new record last year for coca leaf cultivation and cocaine production, which rose 53 percent from 1,738 tonnes (1,915 US tons) to 2,600 tonnes ...