Global cocaine production has soared to record highs after declining during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Between 2020 ...

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Punitive measures are unlikely to advance efforts to undercut the organized crime groups trafficking illicit fentanyl from ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — The drug lord had already escaped the law in three countries, and he planned to do it again. In less than a decade, Dritan Rexhepi had built a smuggling business that ran ...

Cocaine's journey to the recreational British user involves an elaborate network of cartels, traffickers and street-level ...

Colombia and the region are paying the price for slow implementation of the 2016 peace accord, but a turnaround is still ...

However, since he came to power, Colombia’s cocaine production has surged. Cultivation of coca leaves in Colombia increased 10% in 2023 from the previous year, while potential cocaine production ...

Cocaine production in Colombia surged 53% in 2023, reaching a historic peak, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Saturday. A UNODC report highlighted that cocaine production in Colombia ...

Even as production surges, domestic and foreign shifts in the global drug industry have devastated many poor Colombians whose livelihoods are tied to cocaine. Even as production surges ...