and crucially will also provide transport by picking it up from the farm – a significant incentive for farmers who live hours of unpaved road away from main market towns. That’s why the Petro ...

Rosero and other local coca farmers brag their plants are pest-resistant and yield more of the psychoactive alkaloid compound that keeps the world’s 20 million or so cocaine users coming back ...

Colombia remains the world’s top cocaine producer, and each year the South American country breaks new records. Coca crops ...

The leftist group financed its war largely through cocaine and relied on thousands of farmers to provide the bright green coca plant — the drug’s main ingredient. But once the FARC exited the ...

the country remains the largest coca cultivator and cocaine producer in the world. In that time, Colombia has sought to curb the supply of drugs headed north, largely by criminalizing farmers at ...

Cocaine seizures in E.U. countries grew fivefold ... investigators said. The son of grape farmers in Velce, an Albanian mountain village, Rexhepi came of age as Ponzi schemes in the late 1990s ...

A cocaine kingpin and farmer's wife has been ordered to pay back £26,000 despite having been on the run for almost a year. Lynne Leyson fled and was sentenced to nine years in jail in her absence.

Colombia grows more coca, drug labs process more powder and smuggling vessels traverse oceans, alarming U.S. antidrug ...