Colombia’s police started to manually eradicate coca plantations along the Colombian-Ecuadorean border on Wednesday in an effort to destroy 12,000 acres of coca cultivation. Mobile eradication groups are focusing on the…
Colombian and Ecuadorean police have destroyed seven drug laboratories and detained seven presumed drug traffickers in a joint operation on the border between the two countries, reported various media Friday.…
Colombia’s coca and cocaine production have dropped in the last year, the United States government said Monday, contradicting a recent United Nations report that claimed cultivation had gone up. The…
Colombia’s newly- appointed minister of justice described a recent UN report indicating an increase in the country’s coca cultivation as a crucial part of policy creation. “The report on illegal…
Coca cultivation in Colombia has risen 3% in 2011 compared to 2010, the United Nations said Wednesday. In 2011, 64,000 hectares were used for coca cultivation, compared to 62,000 in…
The United Nations’ 2012 World Drug Report released Tuesday failed to show the reported increase in coca production in Colombia in 2011. Instead, the U.N. published last year’s statistics. Colombian…
Coca cultivation rose in Colombia in 2011after seven years of stagnation, said an as of yet unpublished report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, reported Colombian newspaper…
The Colombian House of Representatives Wednesday passed the first draft of a bill that seeks to legalize illicit crops. The initiative calls for the decriminalization of growing plants such as…
The United States said Tuesday that Colombia continues to be the world’s largest coca producer and source of 95% of the cocaine seized within the U.S. According to the latest…