Coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia grew in 2023 as state efforts focused on seizures over eradication to fight ...

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 ...

Colombia has once again produced cocaine at a record pace as President Gustavo Petro’s government changed the country’s strategy for fighting illegal drugs. The area of land planted with coca ...

Colombia, the world's biggest cocaine exporter, set a new record last year for production of the drug and cultivation of the ...

These were the highest numbers since the UN started monitoring in 2001. Most Colombian cocaine is destined for the United States and Europe. Coca leaf production now spreads over 253,000 hectares ...

Colombia, where the COP16 on biodiversity opened on October 21, has lost six million hectares of forest since 1990. The ...

The Awa of Colombia are an Indigenous people who have been threatened by armed groups in the country's southwestern ...