The United States' Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Thursday published a report thoroughly describing crops and distribution activities in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. The White House ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

Route 36 in La Paz, Bolivia, is renowned for being the world’s only cocaine bar. But what is it really like to spend an evening there? One woman reports on an eye ...

If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab.

Bolivian President Luis Arce reaffirmed the nation's commitment to the legal uses of coca leaf, claiming that 'it is not cocaine.' During the National Acullico Day event in La Paz on January 11 ...

A short drive north of Bolivia’s capital La Paz, deep in the lush green valleys of the Yungas, Alicia Calle, a middle-aged Indigenous cocalero (coca farmer), plucked the leaves off the shrubs on ...

The Bolivian government Tuesday announced the creation of the state-run Empresa Pública Productiva de Industrialización to start the production of a new brand of toothpaste made from coca leaves ...

(MENAFN- The Rio Times) The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports Bolivia's coca cultivation jumped 4% in 2023, hitting 31,000 hectares. Released on February 18, 2025, in La Paz ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's former anti-narcotics chief was extradited to the United States on Thursday to face federal drug trafficking charges in a New York court. Authorities said that ...