The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial ...

Michaella McCollum has spoken about her experience in a Peruvian prison, after two girls were arrested abroad for drug ...

Peru’s record-setting nine-ton seizure of cocaine was the largest individual bust of any production country. Both Peru and Bolivia registered massive increases in the total amount of cocaine they ...

Peru serves as a hotspot for sexual slavery, illegal organ trafficking and labour exploitation. In addition, it is also the second-largest producer of cocaine in the world. Over 95,000 hectares of ...

In Peru, a police officer dressed as a capybara conducted a drugs raid, apprehending a suspect with over 1,700 packages of cocaine and marijuana. This operation was part of the Escuadron Verde's ...

The officers seized 54 bags of cocaine, 850 packets of coca base paste, and 2,000 Peruvian soles (approximately £410), according to local media. All the seized items were displayed on a table ...

A Brit is among three people arrested after Peruvian police seized 55kg of cocaine allegedly provided by a Bulgarian bodybuilder working with UK-based drug traffickers. The trio, also including an ...

A model who appeared to have a high flying influencer lifestyle is today at the start of a prison sentence in Peru. Modou Adams, from London, went by the name ‘boywholives’ on social media and ...

Peru's Supreme Court said in a social media post that Modou Adams was jailed for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country A British model and TikToker has been jailed for nearly seven years in ...

Cocaine has a long history of medical use as a local anesthetic, and the Incan Empire of Peru initially recognized it for its properties. Its medical value became widely recognized when Austrian ...

An engrossing new story published on Tuesday sheds light on the impact of Peru’s exploding cocaine trade on the country’s Indigenous people. The story, published by Al Jazeera, opens with ...

Along the untamed edge of Peru’s Ucayali department, the cultivation of coca — the raw ingredient in cocaine — is surging. A metastasised drug trade, once concentrated within the folds of ...