Peru is the world's top cocaine producer. As part of a renewed effort to eradicate drugs, Peruvian officials have just seized and burned 2.2 tons of drugs. In 2015, officials have destroyed 22 ...

Gangs, drugs and public safety threats are ravaging Ecuador’s largest city and may push the president to seek help from the ...

Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. The latter made headlines in ...

The officers seized 54 bags of cocaine, 850 packets of coca base paste, and 2,000 Peruvian soles (approximately £410), according to local media. All the seized items were displayed on a table ...

The struggle to dominate the cocaine trade has claimed hundreds of ... We can already see that in Peru, where Coca-Cola is allowed to sell their product worldwide while native farmers are not.

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...

In Peru, a police officer dressed as a capybara conducted a drugs raid, apprehending a suspect with over 1,700 packages of cocaine and marijuana. This operation was part of the Escuadron Verde's ...

Police seized 1,700 packages of cocaine and marijuana during the raid. LURIN, Peru - An officer in Peru used a capybara costume to bust a suspected drug dealer red-handed on Valentine's Day.

The coca leaf contains only trace amounts of the alkaloid used to make cocaine. Peru and Bolivia are the world's second and third-largest cocaine producers behind Colombia. The narcotics control ...

More than 1,700 packages of cocaine and marijuana were seized in the operation, which was carried out by Peru’s Escuadron Verde, a specialised anti-drugs unit. A Peruvian police officer donned a ...