Colombia coca cultivation jumps 39% ahead of peace accord
Coca cultivation in Colombia, one of the world’s biggest cocaine producers, rose 39% last year as farmers ramped up production on hopes they would be paid to switch to legal…
Coca cultivation in Colombia, one of the world’s biggest cocaine producers, rose 39% last year as farmers ramped up production on hopes they would be paid to switch to legal…
Colombia’s military, FARC guerrillas and coca farmers on July 10 will begin a pilot program that seeks the destruction of coca plants, used to make cocaine, and replace them with…
Wars over control over the cultivation of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, is the biggest threat to benefits of a pending peace deal with the FARC and the…
Colombia’s government and FARC rebels on Friday agreed to a pilot project that seeks farmers’ voluntary substitution of coca crops, used for the production of cocaine, for legal crops. A crop…
It was almost six in the evening when we arrived at the house of an important local leader in a remote part of the department of Guaviare. We sat down…
Colombian authorities confirmed a return to using the possibly carcinogenic chemical glyphosate for spraying coca crops after initially banning it over public health concerns.
Colombia’s decision to return to spraying illicit crops with an allegedly cancerous chemical will kill people, according to a former top counter-narcotics official.
In an attempt to stimulate Colombia’s coca farmers to abandon illicit crops, the United Nations has set up a system to buy and sell products from farmers taking part in crop substitution programs.
Colombia’s government decided on Monday to resume using the controversial weed killer that was suspended less than a year ago amid cancer concerns, while upholding a ban on aerial spraying.