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As Bolivia President Evo Morales nicely sums up: "Coca - YES, Cocaine - NO!", a message that the non-addictive, non-destructive coca leaf extract can be the basis for a variety of socially useful products. News about finding legitimate uses of coca leaf.
Aromatic plants that heal the social fabric in the Colombian Amazon. The Asociación de Mujeres Cimientos del Hogar, in the department of Caquetá, is betting on these products in a place where extensive cattle ranching and illicit crops bleed the landscape and the economy.
- El Espectador, 30 April 2021Victims of the spraying of the pesticide, Agent Orange - over 19 million gallons, in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, are still suing Bayer/Monsanto (and Dow Chemical) for health problems such as cancer due to the extremely toxic ingredient in Agent Orange, dioxin
- New York Times, 29 April 2021The Biden administration plans to propose banning menthol cigarettes, an action that has been long sought by public health and civil rights groups, after decades of marketing aimed at Black smokers, because they are designed to be more addictive.
- New York Times, 28 April 2021Glyphosate: more than organizations request a hearing at the IACHR to prevent its use in Colombia. For organizations, the review becomes essential in order to prevent more people and communities from being affected by aerial spraying with glyphosate.
- El Universal, 28 April 2021The increase in coca crops in Colombia is not due to the prohibition of spraying.
- El Tiempo, 27 April 2021Drug trafficking: everyone's enemy in Colombia. The Minister of Justice defends the use of glyphosate and as a strategy against drug trafficking.
- El Tiempo, 26 April 2021Cheap, legal and everywhere: how food companies get us addicted on junk food such as sugary beverages
- NPR, 26 April 2021Hidden powers, drug mansions and gangs behind the conflict in Cauca, Colombia. Mexican drug lords tell him ‘Caucakistan’; every 24 hours they kill 2 people, and this year there have been 5 massacres.
- El Tiempo, 25 April 2021Illegal groups that want to exacerbate violence in Cauca. In the north and east of the department of Cauca, the war revolves around the cultivation of genetically transformed marijuana, some coca crops and illegal mining.
- El Pais, 25 April 2021Mushroom coffee for immune support. Supplements for inflammation. And psychedelics promising relief from serious ailments. Mushrooms are everywhere, and investors are paying attention.
- New York Times, 24 April 2021In Nuquí, Colombia, violence threatens tourism. The municipality of Choco also suffers the ravages of the pandemic that in 2020 resulted in receiving only 20% of the visitors who arrive each year. In addition, the presence of the Gulf Clan and the Eln frightens the inhabitants.
- El Espectador, 22 April 2021Why resume spraying with glyphosate in Colombia if voluntary substitution works?
- El Pais, 21 April 2021Resuming spraying leaves farmers without options again. If the fumigation with glyphosate is resumed, the main points of Point 4 of the Peace Agreement would be breached and the State would continue to ignore the suffering of the areas most affected by the armed conflict.
- El Espectador, 20 April 2021A rare wild coffee species, Coffea stenophylla, has a flavor similar to Arabica coffee, a greater tolerance to higher temperatures, and grows under the same range of key climatic conditions as robusta
- Sci News, 20 April 2021How governments subsidize obesity in their countries, harming their citizens, through subsidies and tax breaks for the farming of sugar
- Am. Institute for Economic Research, 20 April 2021In Canada, most producers of marijuana are still reporting that they are suffering from staggering financial losses, 2.5 years after legalization.
- New York Times, 18 April 2021"Magic Mushroom" compound may work just as well as antidepressants, according to a small study.
- Corta por lo Sano, 15 April 202126 thousand hectares of illicit crops eradicated in 2021 is the goal established by the National Government for the first stage of glyphosate fumigations, once aerial spraying is resumed in Colombia.
- El Pais, 14 April 2021Dietary cocoa improves health of obese mice, and likely has implications for humans
- EurekaAlert, 14 April 2021ABC's of the decree that regulates aerial spraying of illicit crops in Colombia. The National Narcotics Council will be the one that defines when and where the precision spraying established in the new regulations will begin.
- El Pais, 13 April 2021A study carried out by the University of Granada indicates that smoking cannabis significantly alters key visual functions, such as visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, three-dimensional vision (stereopsis), the ability to focus, and glare sensitivity.
- EurekaAlert, 13 April 2021This is how the satellite and aerial reconnaissance network works to detect coca in Colombia, the Integrated Information and Monitoring System (Siima).
- El Tiempo, 12 April 2021Colombia's military meddles by releasing alleged intelligence documents claiming that a victim of former President Alvaro Uribe's alleged fraud and bribery practices is a former FARC guerrilla
- Colombia Reports, 12 April 2021
- El Tiempo, 09 April 2021According to Senator Feliciano Valencia, a native Colombian leader from Cauca, reported the murder of four people in Santander de Quilichao, a municipality in the north of the province. The massacre is the 26th so far this year. The mass killings would have cost the lives of 99 people so far this year.
- Colombia Reports, 08 April 2021The justice minister of Colombia, Wilson Ruiz, on Tuesday stripped the judicial branch of powers that force the increasingly authoritarian President Ivan Duque to abide by the law.
- COlombia Reports, 07 April 2021The drivers of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Livestock, crops for illicit use (coca), agricultural activities and mining: this has been the transformation of the Amazon rainforest in the last century.
- El Tiempo, 06 April 2021A political ally of President Ivan Duque sabotaged a ceasefire with Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group, the ELN, according to former President Juan Manuel Santos. Allegedly, "this official was Angelino Garzon", the former vice-president of Duque's political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe.
- Colombia Reports, 06 April 2021The government of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, will collaborate with Mexico and Colombia to ensure that the fight against drug production and trafficking adheres to compliance with the law and respect for human rights.
- El Espectador, 01 April 2021Aa leader of sugarcane agriculture workers in the Valley is assassinated. There is rejection of the crime of the trade unionist Carlos Alberto Vidal, in Florida, Colombia.
- El Tiempo, 30 March 2021The failure of peace and security in Cauca. Dissidents, criminal gangs, neo-paramilitaries and common crime plague the department. The implementation of the Havana Accords is in debt. What is the way out? Some of the region's politicians speak.
- El Espectador, 29 March 2021Forced eradication of coca in Colombia, a history of complaints and questionable statistics.
- Voragine, 29 March 2021How much salt and sugar do you consume? Keep in mind that its excess can affect health. These two ingredients, essential in the diet around the world, have high consumption rates that lead to serious pathologies.
- Semana, 27 March 2021Despite a 2016 peace deal with the FARC, Colombia’s long internal conflict continues (partly because the government didn't keep its promise to find alternatives to coca farming). Seldom has that been as evident as this month, when the government bombed a rebel camp full of young people.
- New York Times, 27 March 2021The world is facing a coffee deficit in a supply chain 'nightmare', as freight disruptions lead to tight supply as demand rebounds
- Bloomberg, 23 March 2021Phenpromethamine, a stimulant drug from the era of World War II, is discovered in weight loss supplements in the United States. It has never been approved for oral use, along with deterenol, another stimulant popular in weight loss supplements.
- Live Science, 23 March 2021Chocolate entre Amigas, the Chaparralunas Women's Network for Peace, the Cacao Producers Association (Asocamet) and the Planadas Youth platform are some of the projects in Meta, Nariño and Tolima that work on the social and economic transformation of the regions.
- El Espectador, 23 March 2021In a recently published letter from the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection, to the President of Colombia, related to Law 1787 and Decree 613, the Ministry calls for modifications that would allow for the exportation of dry flowers of the cannabis plant
- Global Newswire, 22 March 2021President Biden criticized for supporting a "misguided" plan to poison the coca fields of Colombia by the aerial spraying of glyphosate
- Vice World News, 19 March 2021The opioid drug trafficking family, the Sackler family, agrees to pay $4.2 billion as part of a plan to dissolve the opioid drug trafficking company, and OxyContin manufacturer, Purdue Pharma
- CNN Business, 16 March 2021The US sees a direct relationship between peace and eradicating drug crops. The embassy and congressmen emphasize that it is the most promising and sustainable strategy in the long run.
- El Tiempo, 15 March 2021Lawmakers in Mexico are on the verge of legalizing marijuana, but economists and industry analysts warn against expecting much monetary benefit. Recently, the marijuana industry in Canada, and companies such as Canopy Growth, have struggled to be profitable.
- New York Times, 13 March 2021The forced eradication of coca could undermine peace in Colombia
- World Politics Review (locked), 11 March 2021Mexico is preparing to legalize marijuana and become the largest market in the world. Lawmakers passed a bill to legalize recreational cannabis, a divisive proposal in a country marked by a deadly war on drugs.
- New York Times, 10 March 2021A federal prosecurot in New York accused Juan Orlando Hernández, presidente de Honduras, as a collaborator in activities to traffic tons of cocaine to the United States.
- El Pais, 09 March 2021Ensuring quality and safety, the challenge of medicinal cannabis in Colombia. Medicines need to go through the strict approval processes established by the different regulatory agencies.
- El Espectador, 07 March 2021Puff Bar, an e-cigarette nicotine drug trafficker, schemes to avoid FDA regulation by using synthetic nicotine, since the FDA mostly regulates tobacco-derived uses of nicotine
- Wall Street Journal, 02 March 2021Colombia's most powerful bankers, including bankers Luis Carlos Sarmiento and Jaime Gilinski, have converted some of the country's leading news media into platforms that defend the interests of suspected mafia figures, news media such as El Tiempo and Semana.
- Colombia Reports, 02 March 2021Movie review: "The United States versus Billie Holiday" - a hectic biopic portrays the singer as a victim of abuse, addiction and government persecution, a persecution led by Harry Anslinger, the founder of the FBN/DEA who drove Billie Holiday to death, and ironically, died of a drug overdose himself
- New York Times, 25 February 2021As a measure of the failure of cocaine drug policies, police in Germany and Belgium seize 23 tons of cocaine in the ports of Hamburg
- CNN, 24 February 2021The leadership of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca) of La Paz, Bolivia, announced yesterday that it was determined to reinforce the vigil that they maintain in the Villa Fátima market, to avoid a police intervention instructed by court order.
- Pagina Siete, 24 February 2021The export of chocolate made in Bolivia is still low, as the sector still faces difficulties in transport, logistics and certifications that make the product more expensive.
- La Razon, 24 February 2021How six large business associations control the government of Colombia, including Asobancaria, the bankers' association controlled by the third large banking groups: Grupo Aval, Bancolombia and GNB Sudameris
- Colombia Reports, 18 February 2021Columnist Margarita Rosa said on Twitter that she resigned from El Tiempo because she “found it increasingly difficult to self-censor feelings to confront” the newspaper’s controversial owner and banking mogul Luis Carlos Sarmiento.
- Colombia Reports, 17 February 2021In Bolivia, Adepcoca in emergency receives support from sectors and announces roadblocks. The leadership of the coca growers of the Yungas announced permanent mobilizations since Wednesday before the announcement of the intervention of the Police, after a court ruling.
- Pagina Siete, 15 February 2021The Bolivian MAS government has just signed agreements with three universities to advance coca industrialization projects, different from what is already being done in the country illegally but with so much success that government wants to join in.
- El Diario, 12 February 2021Buenaventura, Colombia's biggest port city on the Pacific Coast, will always be subjected to mafia terror until "the state takes control". Two rival factions of organized crime groups have greatly increased violence in the city. [The port will be important for exports of legal coca products.]
- Colombia Reports, 03 February 2021The drug trafficking consulting firm, McKinsey, will pay U.S. states $573 million for the advice it gave to opioid drug trafficking companies such as Purdue Pharma that 'legally' created the opioid crisis plaguing the United States
- New York Times, 04 February 2021The drug trafficking consulting firm, McKinsey, will pay U.S. states $573 million for the advice it gave to opioid drug trafficking companies such as Purdue Pharma that 'legally' created the opioid crisis plaguing the United States
- Wall Street Journal, 04 February 2021The top bankers in Colombia - Sarmiento, Gilinski, Ardila - could face 4 years in prison if prosecuted, but evidence of tax evasion is ignored by their allies in the government
- Colombia Reports, 01 February 2021The government policy of Colombia to maintain a monopoly on the production and sales of hard alcohol products, such as the country's most popular - aguardiente, causes much organized crime
- Economist, 30 January 2021While nitrous oxide is a legal recreational drug in the United States, and is the tenth most popular drug in the world, and its abuse is rapidly rising. Meanwhile, no one can drink coca tea which has no problems of abuse.
- New York Times, 30 January 2021Those eating fried foods increased their risk of heart disease, stroke, heart failure and premature death. [None of these problems occur when drinking coca tea.]
- New York Times, 22 January 2021Corporate media in Colombia are participating in what are possibly illegal intelligence operations that are trying to criminalize government critics, using multiple “intelligence reports” they received from the government that are not corroborated by any evidence
- Colombia Reports, 22 January 2021The signatories of the Peace Agreement in Cuaca, Colombia - the FARC ex-combatants - joined together to publish a catalog with all the productive initiatives that they are executing, despite the 42 assassinations of ex-guerrillas in this region.
- El Espectador, 17 January 2021Opinion: On the need for a coca tax in Bolivia when sales exceed 300 million dollars a year. Should the coca growing sector pay taxes for the coca leaf? For production or for marketing?
- Pagina Siete, 17 January 2021President Biden will nominate Samantha Power as director of the US Agency for International Development. She played an important role in the failed intervention, by bombing, in Libya in 2011. She later advocated for US intervention in Syria.
- AntiWar.com, 13 January 2021Three coca growers from Bolivia's Adepcoca were injured fleeing a tear gas blast. A group of coca growers, according to the complaint, wanter to enter one of the warehouses of the coca marketing building, where they would have exploded a tear gas canister.
- Pagina Siete, 13 January 2021Gonzalo Cardona Molina, environmental leader, coordinator of the ProAves Andean Parrot Reserve since 1998 and guardian of the yellow-eared parrot, was assassinated in the jurisdiction of La Unión, rural area of Tuluá.
- El Pais, 11 January 2021Federal prosecutors in the United States alleged that Juan Orlando Hernandez, the president of Honduras, received millions of dollars from drug traffickers to help export tons of cocaine to the United States.
- Wall Street Journal, 11 January 2021Groups related to Bolivia's ruling party, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), tried to take over three institutions, including the offices of the Coca Producers Association (Adepcoca) in La Paz. Cocaleros led by Elena Flores threw dynamite and repelled stones with metal shields.
- Pagina Siete, 08 January 2021Letter to the editor: Walmart's denial of the drug trafficking of opioids, "we were just fulfilling legal prescriptions", is false. Federal law requires pharmacists to evaluate prescribed medication to ensure it is "appropriate, medically necessary, and not likely to result in adverse events".
- Wall Street Journal, 07 January 2021Grupo Aval, Colombia's largest banking corporation, fined for bribing government officials with Odebrecht in order to win rights to construct the country's biggest infrastructure project, Ruta del Sol II. This fine is months after Grupo Aval was fined for evading money laundering regulations.
- Colombia Reports, 05 January 2021The E.P.A. has finalized a so-called transparency plan that it says will improve the credibility of science, but is meant to shield the drug traffickers of Big Tobacco from analysis of how smoking kills.
- New York Times, 05 January 2021The degenerate banking system in Colombia is impeding the country’s economic recovery as entrepreneurs are blacklisted by banks who are waiting for the approval of a grace period for past debts
- Colombia Reports, 04 January 2021Mexico is ready to become the largest legal marketplace for cannabis in the world, legalizing the marijuana industry throughout its supply chain, from farming to distribution and consumption
- Wall Street Journal, 29 December 2020Manual Alonso, a former FARC combatant, was assassinated in the rural area of Miranda, Cauca. He was part of the peace process between the Farc and the National Government, confirmed members of the Farc party.
- El Pais, 28 December 2020The dirtiest little secret of why the drug "wars" never end: corruption of law enforcement agencies on both sides of the U.S. and Mexican border that cooperate with drug traffickers - resulting in tens of billions of dollars spent in recent decades and zero results achieved (except for the deaths of many innocent people)
- Gatestone Institute, 23 December 2020The senator of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) Leonardo Loza affirmed that the coca producers in Bolivia will be the ones who should debate the tax for the sector "if one day" they pay, and not the politicians, since he considered that there are those who raise the issue as "revenge".
- Pagina Siete, 23 December 2020The Amazona Experimental Center (CEA), the cattle farm that transformed environmental conservation in Putumayo. The CEA is the most important scientific research site in the province. Its strategic location is key to the conservation of wildlife species rescued from illegal traffic.
- El Espectador, 22 December 2020A seed bank to guarantee the food security of La Mojana, which is in the north of Colombia and with a million fertile hectares. A project that seeks to rescue seeds used by older generations has been the best alternative to face the intense rains and droughts.
- El Espectador, 22 December 2020Justice Department sues Walmart, saying it fueld the nation's horrendous opooid crisis by allowing its network of pharmacies to fill millions of prescriptions for opioids, thousands of which authorities said were suspicious
- U.S. Department of Justice, 22 December 2020Justice Department sues Walmart, saying it fueld the nation's horrendous opooid crisis by allowing its network of pharmacies to fill millions of prescriptions for opioids, thousands of which authorities said were suspicious
- New York Times, 22 December 2020In Bolivia, senator in the MAS party and coca grower leader Leonardo Loza asked the United Nations not to rely only on "theoretical" reports to declare that 94% of the coca leaf production that leaves the Chapare de Cochabamba region goes to the illegal market.
- Pagina Siete, 19 December 2020From marijuana to cocaine: 40 years of US counternarcotics failures in Colombia, a literally toxic strategy from paraquat and Agent Orange to glyphosate
- Colombia Reports, 17 December 2020As a Christmas gift for Colombia, the Government of President Duque insists on glyphosate to eradicate coca. There is no valid evidence nor the studies from the party of the next president of the United States. And no matter how hard the Duque government tries, the road remains bogged down.
- La Silla Vacia, 15 December 2020Close to 30,000 coca farmers of the Yungas region of Bolivia are meeting today to elect a new director of the Provincial Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca)
- Pagina Siete, 14 December 2020The production in Colombia and commercialization of cocaine is increasingly sophisticated and has managed to produce record quantities in the last nine years to satisfy a demand that, instead of decreasing, has increased as never before in history.
- El Tiempo, 14 December 2020U.S. embassy participated in a DEA plot to discredit the war crimes tribunal of Colombia. In a letter, Special agent Craig M. Michelin of the DEA’s Country Office asked his liaison at Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office in February last year to provide $500,000 for an illegal operation against the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
- Colombia Reports, 14 December 2020How the opioid addiction in the U.S. fuels a crisis for farmers in Mexico. As American make more use of fentanyl, poppy growers are losing market share and thus are turning to migrant work and organized crime to survive
- The Intercept, 06 December 2020In contradiction to multiple statistics, the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, assured that "The fight against drugs in Colombia is not a failure." He referred to the report of the US House of Representatives on the matter.
- El Tiempo, 06 December 2020A study by the Organized Crime Observatory of the Universidad del Rosario reveals that many of the homicides of former combatants occur in municipalities with large areas of coca in Colombia, where the FARC dissidents operate, and in places where there are irregular armed groups in confrontation.
- El Espectador, 04 December 2020African cocoa farmers accuse "Big Chocolate" (including Mars, Hershey and Olan) of circumventing a $400-per-ton tax meant to help poor African cacao farmers
- Zero Hedge, 03 December 2020END The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs votes to remove marijuana for medical use from a list of the most risky narcotics such as heroin, but doesn't vote to allow recreational marijuana while still keeping nicotine - the most deadly and addictive drug - off of the lists of controlled drugs
- New York Times, 03 December 2020Colombian Senator Ivan Marulanda proposes new law that would allow the government of Colombia to distribute cocaine for medicinal purposes. Currently, use of cocaine is legal in Colombia, but not the legal sale of cocaine.
- MixMag, 01 December 2020Colombia's Sergio Arboleda University is the alma mater of far-right President Ivan Duque and notorious for its ties to organized crime. [It has done no research to help coca industrialization.]
- Colombia Reports, 27 November 2020The investigation into the alleged complicity of former President Alvaro Uribe in three massacres and a homicide is increasing suspicion that Colombia’s banks were sponsoring terrorism. These banks include BanColombia.
- Colombia Reports, 26 November 2020"Measuring the drug trafficking problem in terms of cultivated hectares is a mistake." For Adam Isacson, in charge of Defense Oversight of the Washington Office for Latin American Affairs (WOLA), one must also speak of the absence of the State, poverty, inequality, corruption and impunity.
- El Espectador, 26 November 2020The risks of another drug trafficking epidemic: teenage vaping of highly addictive nicotine. "We are stepping backward from all the advances we have made in tobacco control.", one investigator said.
- New York Times, 24 November 2020How one cacao entrepreneur, Max Brenner, is building a business by using all parts of the cacao pod, not just the 30% fruit part used by chocolate companies
- Entrepreneur, 24 November 2020Chocolate makers are having a hard time reducing their use of sugar. Regulators want sugar levels slashed, but doing so is technically tricky and a tough sell to consumers. [Coca leaf extracts can help reduce sugar.]
- Wall Street Journal, 21 November 2020Argentina to allow medical marijuana to be grown at home
- New York Times, 13 November 2020The five families who own the news in Colombia [news sources which have done nothing to promote legal uses of the coca leaf] - the Sarmiento (Grupo Aval), Ardila (Postobon, sugar plantations), Santo Domingo, Gilinski (Bancolombia), and Char (Caribbean region) clans
- Colombia Reports, 13 November 2020Investors from the United States, Canada and Germany are interested in the future of legalized hemp in Costa Rica
- La Republica, 11 November 2020Technology innovations look to change the cacao landscape in Colombia. Cacao holds promises, if the prices remain high enough, as a 'peace crop' in Colombia, providing smallholders with a viable alternative to coca
- MongaBay, 10 November 2020Leonard Loza, the coca grower leader and activist of the ruling political party Movement Toward Socialism, Leonardo Loza, will be the Secretary of the Security and Fight Against Drug Trafficking commission in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 10 November 2020E-cigarettes sold by nicotine drug traffickers can be a 'gateway' to teenagers smoking tobacco cigarettes sold by tobacco-nicotine drug traffickers
- EurekaAlert, 09 November 2020The Bolivian Ombudsman's Office condemns violence over control of Adepcoca (the coca growers cooperative) and calls for dialogue. Two sectors of coca leaf producers staged protests in the early hours of the morning in the vicinity of Adepcoca in Villa Fátima.
- Pagina Siete, 09 November 2020How the DEA all but destroyed Colombia's peace process for no apparent reason, which has denied a new, legal future for the coca leaf
- Colombia Reports, 09 November 2020One of the main natural components of ayahuasca tea is dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which promotes neurogenesis -- the formation of new neurons, as well as helps with the formation of other neural cells such as astrocytes and oligodendrocytes
- Medical Xpress, 06 November 2020The evidence of ties between Colombias ruling party, the Democratic Center of President Ivan Duque, and drug trafficking is so overwhelming that the prosecution invented more charges against the cops who discovered ties between the far right Democratic Center and the drug trafficking organization of Marquitos Figueroa
- Colombia Reports, 06 November 2020Authorities in Honduras have destroyed more than 100 acres of coca crops in 2020, the latest seizure of 4,000 coca bushes occurring in Iriona, a municipality on the Caribbean coast in the department of Colón
- InSight Crime, 04 November 2020American voters in the state of New Jersey approved a constitutional amendment to legalize recreational cannabis, putting pressure on neighboring states like New York to legalize as well, or lose sales to New Jersey
- New York Times, 04 November 2020In less than one year, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia kills for the second time one of the proposals that generates the most controversy in the country: the regulation of the consumption of marijuana for recreational purposes
- El Espectador, 04 November 2020In less than one year, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia kills for the second time one of the proposals that generates the most controversy in the country: the regulation of the consumption of marijuana for recreational purposes
- El Tiempo, 04 November 2020Oregon became the first US state on Tuesday to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and to legalize access to hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapeutic use
- CRHoy.com, 04 November 2020Oregon became the first US state on Tuesday to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and to legalize access to hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapeutic use Oregon becomes the first U.S. state in the United States to decriminalize hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine
- Fox News, 04 November 2020The declining oil industry in Colombia could trigger an economic crisis with reserves expected to depleted in six years. With oil generating 7^ of Colombia's GDP, and 60% of its exports by value, new income streams will be needed. [Such as a legal coca leaf industry.
- Seeking Alpha, 03 November 2020Oregon is on the verge of decriminalizing heroin, coca and LSD. Under the new measure, possession of less than 1 gram of heroin or meth, 2 grams of cocaine, 12 grams of psilocybin, 40 doses of LSD, oxycodone or methadone and 1 gram of MDMA would all be decriminalized.
- Zero Hedge, 01 November 2020In rural Colombia, narcotics gangs step into power vacuum left by peace deal. Massacres and assassinations of community leaders are rising in the countryside as gangs vie for control of coca, marijuana and gold mining
- Wall Street Journal, 31 October 2020Andrónico Rodríguez, a coca farmer from the Tropic of Cochabamba, and Freddy Mamani, a rural teacher in El Alto, were elected to direct the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, for the Bolivian Legislature
- Pagina Siete, 30 October 2020Nicotine drug trafficker Juul, with its electronic cigarettes, reduces its valuation to $10 billion from over $38 billion just two years ago, before regulatory crackdowns on its legal drug trafficking. Equal rights demands coca farmers be able to sell an electronic cigarette with the less harmful coca alkaloid.
- Wall Street Journal, 29 October 2020Young influencers on YouTube are increasingly marketing/trafficking addictive junk food and sugary beverages to fellow children
- CNN, 26 October 2020Indigenous Colombians (many of them subsistence coca growers), facing new wave of brutality, demand government action before they are exterminated because the government refuses to fully implement the Peace Accord, leaving them exposed to criminal attack
- New York Times, 24 October 2020Is Colombia's aviation agency, with its ties to former President Uribe, again working with drug traffickers, this time the Sinaloa Cartel (the last time was with the Medellin Cartel)?
- Colombia Reports, 22 October 2020ENG Book review: "White Market Drugs" by David Herzberg - major drug crises are not caused by the black market but in the 'white' one, where the addictive potential of legally prescribed drugs is played done and leads to more deaths and social destruction
- Wall Street Journal, 21 October 2020The ties in Colombia between the government of Colombia's President, Ivan Duque, and organized crime. The president, who was elected in 2018 with the alleged help of a drug trafficking organization, has granted an increasing amount of power to family members and representatives of notorious organized crime figures.
- Colombia Reports, 20 October 2020Bolivians return Evo Morales's MAS party to power one year after a U.S.-applauded coup tried to destroy one of Latin America's most vibrant democracies
- The Intercept, 19 October 2020The MAS party wins the presidential election in Bolivia, a year after Evo Morales, their leader and former president and head of the major coca growing organization, was ousted in the last last elections.
- Bloomberg, 19 October 2020Lawmakers in Colombia are debating how to regulate cocaine. Here is what we know about decriminalization.
- Washington Post, 19 October 2020Cannabis farmers in Lebanon, many of whom produce hashish (concentrated cannabis extracts), are switching to food crops, which are cheaper to produce and with higher profit potential during the current economic crisis in Lebanon
- New York Times, 19 October 2020Drug enforcement agents had long tried to solve the mystery of “El Padrino,” a shadowy, powerful force in the world of drug trafficking. They have now identified him as Salvador Cienfuegos, Mexico's defense chief from 2012 to 2018
- New York Times, 17 October 2020Former Mexican defense minister General Salvador Cienfuegos is arrested in the United States at the request of the DEA, the highest ranking Mexican official to be arrested in connection with drug-related corruption
- Wall Street Journal, 16 October 2020[IDIOTIC OPINION]: Bolivia flirts with the return of Evo Morales, as a divided opposition could give the upcoming presidential election to a member of Evo's MAS political party, Luis Arce - the idiotic opinion being this will give the country back to Cuba and drug traffickers
- Wall Street Journal, 11 October 2020"The Government of Colombia is not serious with the implementation of the Peace Agreement": Bernard Aronson, former delegate of the US government in talks with the FARC in Havana
- El Espectador, 10 October 2020Tumaco, Colombia, confined by war and illicit crops. The forced displacement, forced recruitment and drug trafficking that surround this municipality located in the southwest of Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, often hide the joy of its citizens.
- El Tiempo, 03 October 2020In the first presidential forum of Bolivia, the proposals passed between the novel and the familiar. The candidate for Acción Democrática Nacionalista (ADN), María de la Cruz Bayá, argued for a tax on coca from Chapare.
- La Razon, 03 October 2020Donald Trump slammed his predecessor Barack Obama, rival Joe Biden and Colombia’s former President Juan Manuel Santos for sealing a "terrible treaty with the Colombian drug cartels ... and who surrendered to narco-terrorists", though Trump has done nothing to help make the Peace treaty a success
- The City Paper, 28 September 2020Politicians in Colombia seek to have the government take control of the cocaine market, but it is unlikely to happen in the near future
- Post-Gazette/LATimes, 27 September 2020A coca grower (Leonardo Loza), a philosopher and a businessman are fighting for the first Senate seat of the Llajta (Cochabamba, Bolivia). The candidates present their positions on health, education, re-election, complaints against Evo and regional issues.
- Pagina Siete, 27 September 2020Prices of wholesale tea leaves around the world have jumped 50% since March, as more tea is consumed by people stuck at home due to the coronavirus [an opportunity for coca tea?]
- Wall Street Journal, 24 September 2020The president of the United States, Donald Trump, certified Colombia's work in the fight against drug trafficking, but warned about the need for the country to soon resume aerial spraying against illicit crops, if it wants to meet its eradication goals.
- El Pais, 16 September 2020The president of the United States, Donald Trump, certified Colombia's work in the fight against drug trafficking, but warned about the need for the country to soon resume aerial spraying against illicit crops, if it wants to meet its eradication goals.
- El Espectador, 16 September 2020Over 20 million people in the U.S. are addicted to legal opioids
- Letter - Wall Street Journal, 15 September 2020Addicted to losing: how addictive casino-like cellphone apps have drained people of millions of dollars when they buy addictive "enhancements"
- NBC News, 14 September 2020Colombia sees surge in mass killings despite the 2017 Peace Accord was assigned, one big problem being the failure to provide legal alternatives (e.g., crop substitution) for the nation's coca farmers who are being attacked by drug traffickers and terrorist groups
- New York Times, 13 September 2020A coca farmer, Leonardo Loza, dreams of replacing Evo Morales as the primary senator from Cochabamba, one of the coca growing regions of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 09 September 2020The challenge of coffee growers in Colombia: collecting 7.5 million sacks of coffee beans during the coronavirus pandemic
- El Espectador, 08 September 2020Dissidents, the ELN and Clan Golfo - the groups attacking coca eradicators. This year, there have been 13 murders of government workers, and 70 more workers injured, while these workers were eradicating coca bushes in Colombia
- El Tiempo, 07 September 2020VIDEO: El Tiempo Verde: impacts of aerial spraying with glyphosate - experts discuss social and environmental risks of a possible return of the spraying
- El Tiempo, 06 September 2020The Nariño province in southwest Colombia suffered its third massacre in a month. Four people were found shot dead in Buesaco, a locality in the generally calm northeast of the province.
- Colombia Reports, 05 September 2020Spraying with glyphosate, for eradication of the coca leaf, will not arrive in Colombia as soon and as easy as the Government says FNR
- La Silla Vacia, 01 September 2020Colombia's defense minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo may have to tell the US government he screwed up the involvement of American soldiers in counternarcotics operations for the second time in three months, because he failed to receive formal approval from Congress
- Colombia Reports, 01 September 2020Ayahuasca, a vomit-inducing hallucinogenic brew, draws thousands of people each year — including former soldiers — to jungle retreats in Latin America that have become an unlicensed and unregulated mental health marketplace
- New York Times, 30 August 2020Spokeswomen for coca growers in Cauca, Nariño and Putumayo assure that aerial spraying is useless to face the spiral of violence in the regions. "Glyphosate would be our door to hell".
- El Espectador, 30 August 2020Colombia wants to resume spraying its coca fields with glyphosate, a toxic carcinogenic chemical, but critics argue that it is dangerous to do so and ineffective
- CNN, 28 August 2020The U.S. state of Oregon may soon decriminalize the low-level possession of all drugs, with such possession reclassified from a misdemeanor to a violation that is punishable by a $100 fine or a health assessment
- The Mind Unleashed, 22 August 2020An administrative tribunal in Cauca, a province in southwest Colombia, ordered the National Army to halt the forced eradication of illicit coca crops and prioritize crop substitution on Thursday after farmers from a war-torn area filed a lawsuit.
- Colombia Reports, 21 August 2020Colombia and US talk big hot air but offer no specifics in announcing a joing rural development plan "worth billions" - funded projects in the past begin for oil fields and toll roads, not for rural development
- Colombia Reports, 19 August 2020Jaime Monge, an environmental leader, was murdered this Tuesday in the village of Villacarmelo (it is located in the southwest of the city of Cali)
- El Pais, 19 August 2020Jhon Rojas, governor of Nariño, spoke with EL TIEMPO after the massacre of eight young people in Samaniego. "Drug trafficking is to blame for the deaths in Nariño."
- El Tiempo, 19 August 2020Another massacre in Nariño, Colombia: three Awá indigenous people were killed in Ricaurte. The incident occurred in the community of Aguacate, in the Awá reservation of Pialapi Pueblo Viejo. The community in the area speaks of other missing indigenous community members.
- El Espectador, 19 August 2020U.S. states are asking for around $26.4 billion from major pharmaceutical industry players - companies little different from drug traffickers - to help pay for damage wrought by the opioid crisis, the latest demand in yearslong litigation seeking to hold companies accountable for widespread drug addiction
- Wall Street Journal, 19 August 2020Massacre of eight boys between 16 and 25 years old, last Saturday in the village of Santa Catalina, in Samaniego (Nariño) - drug trafficking is the main problem, but much more than that, for example, other illegal income such as illegal mining
- La Silla Vacia, 18 August 2020Marijuana vending machine debuts in Colorado with more to be installed
- Denver Post, 17 August 2020Colombia's leading weekly magazine, Semana, and one of its journalists, Vicky Davila, is conspiring with a convicted drug trafficker, Juan Carlos "El Tuse" Sierra, to discredit the Supreme Court for a second time, this time because the Supreme Court has charged former president Uribe with crimes
- Colombia Reports, 14 August 2020Sandra Ramirez: from FARC guerrilla in Colombia to being the second vice-president of the Senate of Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 22 July 2020The Joint Task Force (FTC) began yesterday the eradication of coca crops in prohibited areas in Bolivia, such as national parks - the law states that it is prohibited to grow the leaf in protected areas.
- Pagina Siete, 21 July 2020Opposition political parties in Colombia decided to make politics interesting by introducing a bill that seeks to end the war on drugs by decriminalizing cocaine and regulating its production
- Colombia Reports, 20 July 2020Drug trafficking Big Tobacco finds new way to traffick nicotine - they hope that new oral nicotine pouches will fill the vaping void
- Business Week, 17 July 2020In the midst of disbelief, President Ivan Duqu bets on a new coca substitution strategy in Colombia for the 100,000 coca grower families that are not within the National Comprehensive Substitution Program
- La Silla Vacia, 17 July 2020Colombia's defense minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, said Monday the government is ready to resume the aerial fumigation of coca after local media reported that forced eradication statistics were inflated
- Colombia Reports, 14 July 2020How the CIA made Afghanistan safe for the opium trade in the 1980s - even though Islamabad houses one of the largest DEA offices in Asia, no action was ever taken by the DEA agents against any of these opium operations
- Counterpunch, 10 July 2020Colombia's gamble on the oil industry could end in disaster, with oil prices collapsing as the country's oil reserves are depleted
- OilPrice.com, 08 July 2020How former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, allegedly help launch the Medellin drug cartel when he was head of the country's civil aviation agency from 1980 to 1982
- Colombia Reports, 29 June 2020A global surplus of coffee beans and deteriorating demand due to the coronavirus pushes coffee commodity prices to 15-year lows, which makes coffee less attractive as an alternative to coca farming/A>
- Zero Hedge, 28 June 2020Coca leaf cultivation, as well as cocaine production and global seizures, are at all-time highs in Colombia
- El Pais, 25 June 2020How to create your own bank in Colombia [for coca growers too!]: we explain everything you need to know to create a bank in Colombia: from what these entities do, to how the interest rate is determined
- El Espectador, 24 June 2020Hightimes Holding, the company which is the owner of the 45-year-old marijuana magainze, "High Times", is buying 13 marijuana dispensaries in a stock deal worth over $60 million
- Globe Newswire, 23 June 2020Juanita Leon, the owner of La Silla Vacia (which opposes the industrialization of coca), the media godmother who is killing press freedom in Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 21 June 2020The United Nations offers to audit the process to restart aerial spraying. The representative in Colombia of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Pierre Lapaque, says that Colombia needs both forced and voluntary eradication.
- El Tiempo, 21 June 2020Coca cultivation and harvesting does not stop in Colombia despite global paralysis
- El Pais, 19 June 2020Many small farmers in Colombia would like to grow cannabis legally, but a rigid bureaucracy and stiff financial requirements are denying them an opportunity to profit as are the big cannabis companies
- Cannabis Wire, 17 June 2020Potential cocaine production in Colombia rose 1.5% in 2019, while coca cultivation dropped 9% to 154,000 hectares (maybe!)
- Colombia Reports, 17 June 2020Potential cocaine production in Colombia rose 1.5% in 2019, while coca cultivation dropped 9% to 154,000 hectares (maybe!)
- El Tiempo, 17 June 2020Potential cocaine production in Colombia rose 1.5% in 2019, while coca cultivation dropped 9% to 154,000 hectares (maybe!)
- El Pais, 17 June 2020Colombia to resume aerieal fumigation of its coca fields with glyphosate, which environmentalists say will wreak devastating health and ecological havoc on the vulnerable communities it targets, and on delicate ecosystems across the country
- Sierra Club News, 17 June 2020Annual sales of the world's deadliest, mildly addictive, drug - sugar - has declined for the first time in 40 years, with less demand due to perceived threats to health
- Bloomberg, 13 June 2020European companies are earning huge profits from the guerrilla war in Colombia - as the current Colombian government undermines the Peace Accord and restart fumigation of coca crops while no providing alternatives for coca farmers
- The Brussels Times, 13 June 2020The counternarcotics policy in Colombia is failing - the security forces in Colombia forcibly eradicated 30% less coca in the first four months of 2020, not exactly the 40% increase promised to the US government
- Colombia Reports, 14 June 2020The acting director of the Carrasco National Park in Bolivia, Roberto Portuguez, reported that a recent intervention confirmed the opening of more than 10 main and secondary paths for the forest clearing, planting of seedlings, and farming of coca plants.
- Pagina Siete, 13 June 2020Police in Colombia have known since last year that the drug lord whose organization conspired with Colombia's ruling party to rig the 2018 elections in favor of President Ivan Duque, drug trafficker Marquitos Figueroa, sought to jail policemen, according to an internal memo
- Colombia Reports, 12 June 2020How the drug cartels of Mexico helped drug traffickers in Colombia frustrate the peace process to prevent the disruption of coca farming and cocaine production and exports, exploiting the demobilization of FARC.
- Colombia Reports, 11 June 2020Ex-DEA spokesman admits posing as covert CIA agent to defraud a dozen companies of more than $4 million.
- CNN, 11 June 2020A wave of violence has struck Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, in the form of targeted killings and armed groups battling for control of coca crops and trafficking routes — a deadly mix.
- InSight Crime, 10 June 2020How can the renewed aerial spraying of fields of coca with glyphosate in Colombia be stopped? It is proposed to review the institutional arguments in this regard, the implications of this judicial ruling; as well as the main arguments under discussion.
- La Silla Vacia, 10 June 2020How the YouTube series "Matarife" is linking more and more of the inner circle of former president Alvaro Uribe to drug trafficking and paramilitary death squads FNR
- Colombia Reports, 09 June 2020Social leaders and researchers insist on the importance of not forgetting the guidelines of the Peace Agreement to implement measures to reduce hectares of illicit coca and cannabis cultivation in Colombia
- El Espectador, 08 June 2020Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo: "The government will not stop coca eradication in quarantine" - he defended his strategy against drug trafficking, despite calls by social organizations to suspend forced eradication
- El Espectador, 01 June 2020The US military providing counternarcotics support to Colombia’s government despite its evident ties to drug traffickers is beyond absurd, yet no surprise. US soldiers will be running after farmers like headless chickens, while nobody will be going after the money launderers.
- Colombia Reports, 01 June 2020The sale of "machucada" coca leaf (packet of chewable coca leaf) also hopes to recover in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 31 May 2020Peru's war on drugs based on forced eradication is an abject failure – here is what it can learn from Bolivia. Coca production has not shrunk overall in Peru, merely shifting its location, often through extensive replanting, which aggravates deforestation.
- The Conversation, 30 May 2020The mission of the elite brigade of the United States Army that will support the fight against drug trafficking in Colombia, and that sparked controversy in Colombia.
- El Tiempo, 30 May 2020Two U.S. counties in Ohio file lawsuit against major pharmacy chains - including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens - accusing them of drug trafficking by having sold millions of opioid pills in small towns while rarely flagging suspicious orders to authorities
- New York Times, 27 May 2020Copy of the lawsuit filed by two U.S. counties in Ohio file lawsuit against major pharmacy chains - including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens - accusing them of drug trafficking
- Lake County Ohio, 27 May 2020The United States is preparing to charge Cilia Flores, wife of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, in coming months with crimes that could include cocaine drug trafficking and corruption
- Reuters, 27 May 2020Police seize 59 bags of pressed coca and detain eight people in Oruro, Bolivia - in total, the bags are valued at 59,000 Bolivianos (about US $8800)
- Pagina Siete, 21 May 2020Alicia Arango, the Interior Minister of Colombia, put the son of extradited paramilitary warlord "Jorge 40", one of the country's most blood-thirsty war criminals, in charge of victim coordination - a son who "always thought of his father as a hero", according to one Senator
- Colombia Reports, 20 May 2020A new struggle between farmers and authorities for eradication of coca leaf in Córdoba (Caribbean region of Colombia), growers oppose manual eradication of coca leaf without a social component to help them find alternatives
- El Tiempo, 11 May 2020Tensions rise in the Chapare region of Bolivia as the government escalates anti-drug operations in the coca farming communities around Cochabamba
- InSight Crime, 08 May 2020How the Caribbean police force of Colombia got involved in marijuana trafficking business in 1970s
- Colombia Reports, 04 May 2020The United States implicates the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, in drug trafficking, while it seeks his help on immigration
- Yahoo News, 30 April 2020The former chief of police of Honduras, Juan Carlos Bonilla, is accused by US prosecutors of trafficking drugs to the United States on behalf of the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández - the brother of Hernández was convicted of similar charges in October
- The Guardian, 30 April 2020Prosecutor General Franciso Barbosa could be the saddest excuse for a chief prosecutor ever in Colombia, whose duties enforcing Colombia's coca laws - being implicated in the 2018 election rigging plot and now turning a civil fine against the opposition mayor of Bogota into a crime
- Colombia Reports, 28 April 2020From coca growers in Peru to drug dealers in Paris, the coronavirus has upended the global trade in drugs - and the coca growers in Peru want subsidies just the same as other businesses, since prices for coca leaves sold to drug traffickers are down 70%.
- Business Insider, 25 April 2020Lebanon passes legislation legalizing the cultivation of medical marijuana for export for medicinal and industrial purposes, in order to raise more tax revenues for the government
- Newsweek, 21 April 2020Opinion: conflicts with the state, the coca farmers of the Chapare region of Bolivia, drug production and the coronavirus
- Pagina Siete, 19 April 2020Colombia's government acts like a doormat for the United States, and its people do not support this policy, for example the people opposing eradication with glyphosate
- AlterNet, 10 April 2020How a drug trafficker, "Memo Fantasma", sold property in the "zona rosa" of Bogota to a company owned by the family of the vide president, Marta Lucía Ramírez, because Ramírez received bad/false advice from the-then chief of police, Óscar Naranjo
- InSight Crime,, 10 April 2020Caffeinated conservation: Colombian farmers in the San Lucas mountains switch from growing coca to growing coffee to protect wildlife
- New York Times, 09 April 2020Colombia’s vice-president, Marta Lucia Ramire, broke down in tears on Wednesday during an interview over her businesses ties to a drug trafficker in a real estate deal, relying on the word of former National Police Chief Oscar Naranho - himself linked to drug traffickers
- Colombia Reports, 09 April 2020For much of its 500-year history, coffee was viewed with confusion, suspicion and disgust [same past for coca tea]. Coffee has since become a necessity we rely on to meet the everyday demands of modern capitalism [same future for coca tea?]
- Wall Street Journal, 04 April 2020A new murder of an ex-combatant of the Farc - Carlos Alberto Castaño, this time in Tolima (central Colombia) - the ex-combatant was carrying out his reincorporation process in the Cooperativa Multiactiva Agropecuaria por la Paz (Cooagropaz)
- El Espectador, 03 April 2020Colombia's weekly magazine, Semana, not known for balanced coverage of the problems of coca farmers, continues purge of journalists exposing crimes and corruption, while hiring journalists who are fierce apologists of former president Uribe
- Colombia Reports, 02 April 2020Chemists at some of the biggest, and legal, cannabis companies in the United States and Canada are trying to develop a predictable, reliable method to modulate the stimulation of cannabis drug products
- New York Times, 01 April 2020Businesspeople in North Macedonia are prepared to become the "cannabis superpower" of Europe, but are waiting for a slow government to change the laws
- New York Times, 29 March 2020National parks in Colombia are being destroyed as land conflicts intensify, partly due to struggles over cattle farming and coca farming
- Monga Bay, 24 March 2020Francisco Barbosa, Colombia's chief prosecutor, closed his Twitter account on Sunday after photographstied him to a cocaine mafia conspiracy to rig the 2018 elections in favor of his friend, President Ivan Duque
- Colombia Reports, 23 March 2020Burning coca leaves, spurning leavers - the United States pays for a pointless drug war in Colombia while spraying coca fields with carcinogenic herbicides such as glyphosate, but is less keen to help with a huge Venezeulan refugee crisis
- Economist, 19 March 2020The illegal nature of coca cultivation is an incentive for its production to take place in the National Natural Parks of Colombia. For the coca growers, the priority is not the ownership of the land on which they grow coca, it is the great profits that its cultivation generates.
- El Espectador, 18 March 2020Colombia's coca farmers want viable business alternatives and more sustainable development, not militarization - they would like to stop growing coca but says it’s the only product with enough demand for buyers to come directly to collect it
- Amnesty International, 10 March 2020DEA is ordered to return $15,000 it seized from a woman falsely charged with dealing with cocaine, but refuses to pay $5,000 for her attorney's fees
- Miami Herald, 10 March 2020As cocaine production rises, Donald Trump is increasing the pressure to curb it and insisting Colombia should spray its fields with glyphosate again. In remote communities, this revives memories of a dark chapter.
- Deutsche Welle, 09 March 2020Conflicts over indigenous land grow more violent in Central and South America, including peaceful Costa Rica
- New York Times, 09 March 2020Coca leaf crops increased in Colombia in 2019 to 212,000 hectares, while cocaine production reached 951 tons, record numbers according to estimates published Thursday by the US Government
- El Espectador, 06 March 2020Tilray was the first marijuana company to go public on Nasdaq, but the industry has too many greenhouses growing too much marijuana, depressing prices, and as a result, investors are abandoning the marijuana sector - with Tilray's stock price down 90%
- Wall Street Journal, 06 March 2020Through resolution 315 of 2 March 2020, the Ministry of Health of Colombia updated the list of narcotic drugs, psychotropics, precursors and substances under control and special control, and included medicinal cannabis
- El Tiempo, 05 March 2020Stock prices for cannabis companies are having a lousy week, compounding sharp losses over the past year for the once-hot sector as investors low interest in a growingly commodity-like business
- Wall Street Journal, 04 March 2020Mexican and paramilitary cartels, are likely factors in the increase of coca farming in Colombia - illegal groups dedicated to drug trafficking control seaports and use light aircraft with which they carry out illegal flights
- El Espectador, 03 March 2020Gato Dumas, the haute cuisine experts that want to invent recipes to vindicate the name of the coca leaf in Colombia
- La Republica, 02 March 2020President Trump 'orders' President Duque to restart the eradication of coca leaves by spraying glyphosate
- U.S. White House, 02 March 2020Former coca farmers from Colombia's "Peace Laboratory" -- the 8000 people of Briceño, fear a return to war if the government doesn't support the coca substitution program that is a vital part of the peace process
- Colombia Reports, 02 March 2020On February 21, in the municipality of Briceño, considered an example for the country because its peasants replaced 99% of the coca with other crops, hundreds of them peacefully protested against the government's failure to comply with the coca replacement program
- El Espectador, 29 February 2020Mind Medicine, a psychedelics-based medicine startup backed by Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, closed a $24.2 million funding round ahead of plans to go public next week
- Wall Street Journal, 27 February 2020A guerilla-to-entrepreneur plan in Colombia leaves some new businesswomen isolated and at risk - the Colombian government’s reliance on entrepreneurship may make female ex-insurgents financial situation even more precarious than it would otherwise be because they lack the safety net of formal employment
- The Conversation, 26 February 2020The four Colombian men - "powers behind the throne" of President Ivan Duque: Luis Carlos Sarmiento (the richest man in the country, owner of El Tiempo and Grupo Aval), German Vargas (powerful conservative political clan leader), Alvaro Uribe (far-right former president) and Andres Pastrana (conservative former president)
- Colombia Reports, 24 February 2020Colombia ends coca crop substitution monitoring deal with the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime - the UN appears to be a nuisance as its regular reports on progress of the PNIS program demonstrate how ineffective the repressive policy backed by the US is compared to crop substitution
- Colombia Reports, 24 February 2020The women of Putumayo, Colombia, seek a life without coca - the coca economy allows them to achieve some financial independence, but also exposes them to risks such as labor slavery, sexual violence, law enforcement and threats from armed groups
- El Espectador, 24 February 2020Two soldiers were killed, one was taken hostage and a major forest fire broke out in the Colombian Amazon after military efforts to try to evict communities living in the Tinigua Nature Reserve who were deforesting the reserve to grow coca leaf
- Colombia Reports, 23 February 2020Two companies in Colombia compete for the glyphosate supply contract for the eradication of coca crops: one which has been almost the exclusive supplier in recent years; the other, a new competitor which reports possible failures in the process
- El Espectador, 23 February 2020Jose Irizarry, a former DEA agent in Colombia, charged with laundering money for Colombian drug cartels, and charged with stealing money from the DEA
- New York Times, 23 February 2020China's strong push into Colombia - companies from China are buying gold mines in Colombia, and are building Bogota's new metro system and much more
- Al Jazeera, 22 February 2020Farmers will protest for failures in crop substitution program in Briceño - according to leaders of the municipality of Antioquia, the government has not fully developed short-term and long-term production projects
- El Espectador, 20 February 2020The ELN, Colombia’s cocaine-funded rebels, are back in action big-time, carrying out more than 100 separate attacks in the last week and its ranks have been growing
- Daily Beast, 20 February 2020The eradication of surplus coca in the Chapare is running smoothly - more than 1,300 troops have been in 14 areas of that region of the Cochabamba tropics for more than a week in order to eradicate 8,575 hectares, a goal set by the Government of Bolivia
- La Razon, 18 February 2020Cochabamba: more than 1,300 troops carry out surplus coca eradication tasks in the tropics - the Minister of Defense of Bolivia announced that the goal for this 2020 management is to eradicate more than 8,500 hectares of coca planted in prohibited places, such as natural parks
- Pagina Siete, 18 February 2020Silicon Valley investors and big tech companies are awakening to the many investment opportunities into psychedelic drugs for use in mental health care - a journey inside an industry preparing to emerge from darkness
- Fortune, 17 February 2020How the next investment wave in legalized drugs will be psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin
- Fortune, 17 February 2020Three members of the Nasa indigenous nation were assassinated in Buenos Aires and Miranda, in the Cauca province of Colombia - all three were members of the community guard
- Colombia Reports, 17 February 2020Many public marijuana companies in the United States and Canada have only a few months of cash left as the business becomes more difficult
- Zero Hedge, 16 February 2020Book review: "The War Without End" - Why in Colombia is more coca being farmed than ever?
- El Tiempo, 14 February 2020National Police in Colombia find a cocaine laboratory on a farm owned by the family of Fernando Sanclamente Alzate, the Colombian ambassador in Uruguay (located in the municipality of Guasca, Cundinamarca)
- El Tiempo, 13 February 2020National Police in Colombia find a cocaine laboratory on a farm owned by the family of Fernando Sanclamente Alzate, the Colombian ambassador in Uruguay (located in the municipality of Guasca, Cundinamarca)
- El Pais, 13 February 2020Colombia vows to eradicate a record 130,000 hectares of coca this year, though the UN says 80% or more will be replanted, promising to hire and train an extra 2,000 policemen to cut the estimated production of 1000 tons of cocaine before 2023
- Colombia Reports, 11 February 2020How to use the coca leaf for ceremony, altitude sickness, chewing and drinking
- Traveling and Living in Peru, 10 February 2020[Completely absurd]: glyphosate is the only eradication option against coca and cannabis
- El Pais, 09 February 2020How Colombia's government officials, members of Uribe's Democratic Center party, led a political warfare campaign against journalists
- Colombia Reports, 08 February 2020The soldiers of the Special Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (FELCN) of Bolivia destroyed 19 cocaine factories, seized 700 liters of precursor chemicals, and found 78,000 doses of drugs in operations carried out in the department of Cochabamba
- El Diario, 03 February 2020Santa Cruz, California, decriminalizes magic mushrooms and other natural psychelics at the personal, making it the third US city to take such a step
- CNN, 03 February 2020Coca farmers in Colombia prepare mass protests as Colombia abandons counternarcotics strategy - the government claiming its doesn't have the promised $1 billion to help farmers substitute their crops, while those who did agree to substitute are starving
- Colombia Reports, 30 January 202OEvidence contradicts Colombian national police claims that two ex-FARC members, one a coca substitution advocate, were killed by police when traveling to assassinate an ex-FARC leader, Rodrigo Londoño - new evidence suggests the two ex-FARC members were killed by police
- Colombia Reports, 29 January 202076% of the cocaine factories destroyed in 2019 in Bolivia were in the Chapare region. Of 841 factories found, 640 were found in the Chapare. FELCN, the anti-drug force, also detected the rest of the factories in Santa Cruz (152), 45 in La Paz and 4 in Tarija.
- Pagina Siete, 29 January 2020A single dose of psilocybin - the psychedelic drug found in magic mushrooms - eased cancer patients' anxiety and depression for many years
- NBC News, 28 January 2020Kellogg's pledges to end use of the weedkiller glyphosate to dry oats and wheat before harvest
- Environmental Working Group, 27 January 2020Southern Colombian province of Putumayo living in terror as turf war over drug trade escalates, with government security forces nowhere to be seen, as drug traffickers fight efforts to substitute the farming of coca for other products.
- Colombia Reports, 27 January 2020Fumigation with glyphosate in Colombia - a new year with old policies with almost no public debate, and many analysts have criticized the fumigation for several reasons - neither this government nor the previous ones have offered strong arguments against these three problems of fumigation
- El Espectador, 26 January 2020The Minister of Government of Bolivia, Arturo Murillo, announced Thursday that the eradication of surplus coca crops will begin in the National Parks, which, according to his information, are "plagued" by illegal green leaf crops
- El Deber, 24 January 2020London to Lima Gin Distillery, based in Lima (Peru), will be introducing a Mulberry & Coca Gin liqueur into the UK Market.
- Just-Drinks.com, 23 January 2020I wish Colombians could quickly investigate and innovate in legitimate uses of one of our flagship plants - coca, perhaps the most promising for our own bioeconomy, as recommended by the Mission of Wise Men
- El Espectador, 23 January 2020The Bolivian government says there is no date to eradicate coca in Chapare - the tasks of eradicating the surplus coca leaf in the Chapare sector in Cochabamba have no start date, said Deputy Minister of Public Security, Wilson Santamaría
- Pagina Siete, 23 January 2020Kratom - America's new semi-legal drug culture, which many use to quit opioids while others use it to get high (in 2016 the DEA had tried to make it schedule I, but backed off under pressure).
- Wired, 22 January 2020More than likely the far-right group "Aquilas Negras", known to attack/kill community activists in coca growing regions, are members of military and police intelligence agencies
- Colombia Reports, 21 January 2020Investigators determine that a popular "all natural" pain reliever in Colombia, Dololed - produced by the drug company Pronabell, has high levels of an artificial pain reliever, diclofen - a nonsteriodal anti-inflammatory drug
- El Espectador, 18 January 2020The number of Americans drinking themselves to death with a legal, addictive drug - alcohol - doubled from 1999 to 2017, with over 72,000 deaths due to alcohol in 2017, at least five times as many deaths due to alcohol as due to cocaine use
- MarketWatch, 18 January 2020Bolivia's Special Anti-Drug Trafficking police force finds 15 cocaine factories in the Chapare region after a 7-hour raid
- Pagina Siete, 18 January 2020The newly formed, Washington-based, International Development Finance Corporation will fund US $5 billion in investment and cooperation in territories affected by illicit crops and drug trafficking in Colombia
- The City Paper Bogota, 17 January 2020The cocoa cartel of Ghana and the Ivory Coast is forcing up the prices of cocoa, giving a pay rise to West African cocoa farmers that will increase costs for global confectioners Lindt, Nestlé and Hershey
- Wall Street Journal, 17 January 2020The United States government will invest "billions of dollars" in rural development as part of its counternarcotics strategy in Colombia, a top official said Thursday - crop substitution and rural development are more effective to curb the cultivation of illicit crops like coca
- Colombia Reports, 17 January 2020The US FDA approves the sale of a topical 4% cocaine anesthetic delivered as a nasal spray, manufactured by Lannett Company of Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 January 2020The Netherlands, birthplace of semi-legal cannabis, risks losing billions of dollars in profits because it is less competitive than Canada and the United States
- Business Week, 13 January 2020The president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, is informed that the Colombian military's collusion (the Army's 7th division) with the country's largest trafficking crime group is undermining the government's legitimacy, in a letter from a representative of victims of violence, Leyner Palacios
- Colombia Reports, 09 January 2020THE LETTER: the president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, is informed that the Colombian military's collusion (the Army's 7th division) with the country's largest trafficking crime group is undermining the government's legitimacy, in a letter from a representative of victims of violence, Leyner Palacios
- Leyner Palacios, CIVP - Bojaya, 09 January 2020Activist Gloria Ocampo, 37, was killed along with another person in a rural area of Putumayo, a case that constitutes the first homicide of a social leader this year in Colombia - she was an activist in favor of replacing illegal crops in the La Estrella village, municipality of Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo
- El Pais, 08 January 2020Established at the beginning of last year, the Peruvian startup Futura Farms plans to invest between US $1 million and US $2 million between this year and next in medical and industrial cannabis research projects
- El Comercio, 08 January 2020The active ingredient in "magic mushrooms", psilocybin, is getting closer to obtaining FDA approval as a treatment for particularly tough cases of depression
- Business Week, 07 January 2020The West African nations of Ivory Coast and Ghana, which combined produce more than 60% of the world's cocoa, have banded together to form their own chocolate-coated version of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
- Wall Street Journal, 06 January 2020Former security chief for Colombian airline Air Cargo Lines claims that the "Sinoloa Cartel paid former president Uriba $1 million to facilitate drug trafficking between Colombia and Mexico"
- Colombia Reports, 03 January 2020Evo Morales supported the coca growers in Bolivia, but the coca growers now face a hostile new government with policies that could hurt their farming efforts - but the coca growers for decades have been a powerful political force
- Wall Street Journal, 03 January 2020U-Haul to stop hiring people who use nicotine in any form, such as cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, vaping, etc.
- Slate, 02 January 2020Brookings Institute report: Detoxifying Colombia's drug policy.
- Brookings Institute, 02 January 2020The United States Department of State announced Tuesday that it supports the roadmap presented by the Colombian government to return to aerial fumigatio with glyphosate to eradicate the coca leaf
- El Espectador, 31 December 2019The UN's International Narcotics Control Board allocates to Colombia a production quota of 56.5 tons of high-THC dry marijuana leaf - 22% of the worldwide allocation
- Finance Colombia, 30 December 2019The victims of violence in Colombia, after the peace agreement, expect more contrition from the FARC.
- La Silla Vacia, 29 December 2019Ajayo products (www.andescoca.com), made from organic coca leaf, are a natural energy and food supplement - what champions the initiative are the candies: each one is equivalent to a bolus of coca, says the general manager of Icori Laboratories, Juan Salvador Hurtado
- Pagina Siete, 28 December 2019The Supreme Court of Italy rules that Italians can grow small amounts of marijuana in their homes for personal use
- New York Times, 27 December 2019In Leiva, Nariño (Colombia), the victims of the conflict await reparation - in this municipality the lack of opportunities financially hurts its residents, who are forced to plant coca to live, and the people say that the government has breached the agreements that they signed
- El Espectador, 26 December 2019Camilo Romero, governor of Nariño (Colombia), confirmed the death of Lucy Villareal, social leader who was part of the Indo-American Cultural Foundation, which participates in the Carnival celebrations in Pasto. According to the governor, the leader was "cultivator of Carnaval and a defender of life".
- El Espectador, 25 December 2019Lucy Villareal, social leader of Tumaco, Colombia, is murdered - Lucy is known to be the mother of two young daughters and was part of the Indo-American Cultural Foundation in Pasto
- El Tiempo, 25 December 2019Spanish authorities are sure that they have just dealt a great blow to the mafia, with the capture of a Colombian, Tatiana Peñuela Manrique, the 'queen' of cocaine trafficking in the Canary Islands, Toledo and other cities in the region of Galicia
- El Tiempo, 24 December 2019Miguel Acosta Gonzalez, a former politician and former director of civil protection in the state of Campeche in Guatemala, is captured in Guatemala while smuggling two tons of coca leaves and 572 packages of cocaine in his private jet
- The Yucatan Times, 23 December 2019Illinois is about to become the 11th state in the nation to allow the sale of recreational marijuana - but some say only white men are set to profit.
- USA Today, 21 December 2019Biodiversity en Colombia, an opportunity for reinstatement - 40% of ex-combatants have environmental conservation skills and 84% would like to work on the environmental restoration of lands and rivers
- El Espectador, 18 December 2019According to the most recent analysis of the Rural Dialogue Group in Colombia, the precarious conditions of the municipalities with coca crops considerably limit the coverage in education, health, employment and quality of life of 298,000 rural youth
- Semana Rural, 18 December 2019This year in Colombia the resumption of aerial spraying of illicit crops with glyphosate won't be approved, a tool in which the Government has insisted on using to fight against narcocultures in the country
- El Tiempo, 17 December 2019In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council updates guidelines for drinking alcohol, and recommend that two standard alcoholic drinks a day, or more, are no longer safe for adults
- The Guardian, 15 December 2019The routes and prices of cocaine-related drugs inside and outside of Peru - US $1000 per kilogram of basic cocaine paste, US $2000 per kilogram of cocaine hydrochloride, and US $ 3per kilogram of dried coca leaf
- El Comercio, 17 December 2019President Jeanine Áñez de Bolivia announced on Thursday the call for dialogue with the coca growers of Chapare in order to restore the presence of the State in that region with the presence of the Police
- La Razon, 13 December 2019From arid, harsh lands in Peru came a superfood that attracted the world's attention. The root of the maca plant (Lepidium meyenii) was the subject of an economic boom but then vanished because genetic material was unlawfully taken out of the country, an act scientists call “biopiracy”.
- China Dialogue, 12 December 2019"There will be war" if they take our land, warn the Yungas coca growers in Bolivia - cocalero Luis Prudencial warns that "there will be war" if the transitional government of Jeanine Añez, or the one who wins the next elections, decides to take "even a little piece" of our land
- Pagina Siete, 12 December 2019Bolivian yungueños coca growers rethink having opted for monoculture - for decades, coca has dominated agriculture in the Yungas. Today the environment and biodiversity are affected by these plantations, while producers begin to rethink their decisions.
- Pagina Siete, 12 December 2019Anti-drug forces destroy two laboratories that produce more than 1 ton of cocaine per day in Roboré, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 12 December 2019Anti-drug forces destroy two laboratories that produce more than 1 ton of cocaine per day in Roboré, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 11 December 2019Coca farms in Peru close in on protected areas and isolated tribes, such as the Mashco-Piro, in the Amazon region.
- Mongabay, 09 December 2019In Colombia, the ELN gains ground in Nariño and fights hegemony in Chocó with the Golfo Clan
- La Silla Vacia, 06 December 2019In Colombia, 81,305 hectares of illicit crops were eradicated this year
- El Pais, 04 December 2019The Spanish authorities have just revealed that they found and dismantled a drug laboratory in Casasbuenas, Toledo - the complex had the capacity to produce up to two tons of cocaine per month that were marketed by FARC dissidents
- El Tiempo, 03 December 2019Coca production is worth 18.3 billion Colombia pesos and is double the GDP of coffee - this illicit business adds 1.88% of GDP in the economy, while coffee, 0.8%, according to study
- El Tiempo, 01 December 2019Uribe's/Duque's 'ruling' Democratic Center party on a verge of a split, with extremist senators demanding more power or they will split, while their coalition partner, the Conservative Party, wants to share power with center-right parties in Congress
- Colombia Reports, 01 December 2019'Wax', the marijuana-based wax that is raising alarms in Bucaramanga, Colombia - the inhalation of this substance is four times more potent than conventional marijuana
- El Tiempo, 29 November 2019Oscar Serrate, the Bolivian ambassador to the United States, rules out the return of the DEA as a solution to drug trafficking in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 29 November 2019"Evo Morales is like a father to us" - in the Chapare coca-growing region of Bolivia where the former president got his political start, coca farmers are loyal to him — and demanding his return
- New York Times, 27 November 2019Opinion: the secret of Chapare (Bolivia) - the product of Chapare is not the coca leaf but drug by-products that is obtained from the coca leaf, so that the sale of the leaf has nothing to do with honest business, something that may unravel this mystery
- El Diario, 27 November 2019A marijuana variety nicknamed 'Creepy' is aggravating Colombia's drug trafficking wars - it is grown in Colombia's "Golden Triange" in the northern neck of Cauca state, centered on the towns of Toribio, Caloto and Miranda
- Daily Beast, 24 November 2019Protests in support of coca growers provoke tension in Cochabamba, Bolivia - marches in the southern zone to support the people of Chapare who try to enter the city center - aa Police had to use tear gas
- El Deber, 19 November 2019Football, emeralds and coca, which plunges Horacio Triana into the U.S. - ‘indictment’ reveals links of emeralds with the former drug leader who bought shares of Santa Fe soccer club and with AUC
- El Tiempo, 18 November 2019President Trump reportedly shelved a ban on flavored e-cigarettes to avoid angering nicotine-addicted voters
- Business Insider, 18 November 2019Cacao exports from Colombia reach over 40 countries, with $80 million in export sales
- Finance Colombia, 18 November 2019"The problem in Colombia was not the FARC, it was coca": presidential security Aaviser - Rafael Guarín explains, in dialogue with this newspaper, that the biggest challenge in terms of security is for the State to reach the most neglected regions
- El Espectador, 17 November 2019Cali, "the center of operations" from where drug traffickers control coca and cocaine in southern Colombia
- El Pais, 17 November 2019The death toll rose to eight from Friday's clashes in Sacaba, Cochabamba (Bolivia), between coca growers and the contigent of police and military
- La Razon, 16 November 2019There are reports that violent clashes in Sacaba, Bolivia, have left at least 5 dead - the police and military initiated an operation on the strategic Huayllani connection bridge so that Chapare coca growers could not enter the city of Cochabamba
- La Razon, 15 November 2019Ethnic rifts in Bolivia burst into view with the fall of Evo Morales - as the country's first Indigenous president has tumbled from power, Indigenous Bolivians (many of whom use and grow the coca leaf) fear the loss of their hard-won political gains, and say a racially tinged backlash has begun
- New York Times, 15 November 2019Minutes after Senator Jeanine Áñez assumed the constitutional presidency of Bolivia, the coca producers of Chapare, whose top leader is Evo Morales, spoke out and threatened with forceful mobilizations starting tomorrow - "In the Tropic of Cochabamba we will be on the streets until our brother Evo Morales returns to the presidency, because he is within the time of his constitutional mandate until January 22, 2020."
- Pagina Siete, 13 November 2019Colombia and its coca growing neighbors, Peru and Bolivia, have an opportunity to transform coca into a path of licit sustainable development and even refocus part of the growing demand for cocaine, helping us to stop drug trafficking from the root
- Semana Rural, 12 November 2019Interview with María Eugenia Lloreda Piedrahita, president of the Association of Sugar Cane Growers in Colombia, who lies about the dangers of sugar to human health
- El Pais, 10 November 2019Coca growing regions, areas of FARC dissidents, and the plan of Colombian president Iván Duque to stop the violence in the Cauca province
- La Silla Vacia, 10 November 2019Medical cannabis: is a new industry born in Peru? - Although the regulation is not yet in force at one hundred percent, companies have already established and structured plans for business operations in the a short, medium and long term
- El Comercio, 09 November 2019The clans of coca and cocaine in the Vraem of Peru: the five families in charge of sending drugs from Palmapampa (Ayacucho) to Bolivia
- El Comercio, 06 November 2019Colombia’s Senate was shocked on Tuesday when hearing that at least seven minors were killed in a bombardment that President Ivan Duque had falsely presented as an "impeccable operation" against dissident FARC rebels that he labelled as "carco-terrorist criminals"
- Colombia Reports, 06 November 2019Colombia’s Senate was shocked on Tuesday when hearing that at least seven minors were killed in a bombardment that President Ivan Duque had falsely presented as an "impeccable operation" against dissident FARC rebels that he labelled as "carco-terrorist criminals"
- El Tiempo, 05 November 2019The national organization of indigenous people in Colombia propose "A Pilot Plan for Erradication and Substitution of Illegal Crops" (such as coca) to stop assassinations in the north part of Cauca province
- Organizacion Nacional Indigena de Colombia, 05 November 2019The Colombian government affliated newspaper, El Tiempo, also blames assassinations of indigenous people in Cauca on drug trafficking, but does not report on assassinations due to stealing land from the people there
- El Tiempo, 03 November 2019Colombia's indigenous Nasa people reiterate that they will not allow any armed group, legal or illegal, into their autonomous territory, rejecting government claims that the military could protect the Nasa people
- Colombia Reports, 03 November 2019VIDEO: Colombia's indigenous people risk their lives to remove illegal coca and marijuana crops
- Al Jazeera, 02 November 2019Profits from sales of rooibos tea will be shared with San and Khoi Indigenous communities in southern Africa
- Nature, 02 November 2019Colombia wants to create an economy based on its biodiversity, after 50 years of civil war, taking advantage of over 300 different ecological zones (article is silent about the legal economics of coca agriculture
- Scientific American, 01 November 2019Nicotine drug trafficker, Juul, knowingly sold one million mint-flavored nicotine pods that were contaminated - and refused to call them
- New York Times, 31 October 2019Why are they killing many indigenous people in the norte of Cauca, Colombia - the region where coca is grown and processed?
- El Espectador, 30 October 2019Over 42,000 people have sued Bayer/Monsanto over its Roundup herbicides, with the people claiming that the glyphosate in Roundup causes cancer.
- Wall Street Journal, 30 October 2019Colombia's authorities are under extraordinary pressure to investigate who murdered the FARC member who was at the heart of the former guerrillas' reintegration program
- Colombia Reports, 26 October 2019Letter from a doctor: "I see patients every day who have had their lives destroyed by tobacco.", due to heart attacks and cancer - which coca tea does not cause.
- Wall Street Journal, 23 October 2019Obesity causes losses of $13.7 billion in Colombia's labor market (about 4.3% of GDP), one solution is to achieve a 20 percent reduction in the calories provided by the food and beverage groups that most produce overweight.
- El Tiempo, 21 October 2019More than 500,000 doses of cocaine each consumed each day in London, about 8 tons per year
- SKY News, 12 October 2019The successes of the 2016 peace deal in Colombia are slipping away
- Foreign Affairs, 11 October 2019The Trump administration is moving to restart aerial fumigation in Colombia - the move further endangers the country's already-fragile peace accord
- The Progressive, 10 October 2019Just a week after the D.C. Council put an additional 2% sales tax on soft drinks, it is considering a substitute plan to place a 1.5 cent-per-ounce excise tax on soda and other sweetened beverages
- FoodDive, 09 October 2019Powers of the earth: the coca leaf has been used for more than 4,000 years by indigenous people from the Amazon and the Andean region
- Caracol TV, 09 October 2019Investors who have invested over $400 million in the legal marijuana industry in Colombia are frustrated with regulations and roadblocks to exports, as other countries (Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, maybe Brazil) expand more quickly
- Reuters, 07 October 2019Amid Trump's trade war with Zhōngguó, farmers start growing more hemp, now that hemp is no longer classified a controlled substance, with 13 states now growing hemp for a total of 285,000 hectares
- New York Times, 07 October 2019Nir Eyal, who taught Silicon Valley on how to addict consumers to their apps and cellphones, now is teaching consumers how to break free but is still blaming concusmers for their addiction - the classic drug traffickers defense
- New York Times, 07 October 2019Researchers find that electronic cigarettes can cause lung cancer in mice, the first study tying vaping to cancer
- CNBC, 07 October 2019Kushy Punch, a vape maker based in California, is caught making illegal products using a petro-solvent extraction process to obtain THC, which can have the effect of concentrating pesticides
- Leafly, 04 October 2019A lawsuit filed in Canada argues that videogames are similar to cocaine in that they are designed to addict children by increasing levels of dopamine generated in the brain while playing the games.
- CBC News, 04 October 2019Coca crops surge amid security vacuum on Peru-Bolivia border, with some 600 hectares of coca being grown at the Bahuaja Sonene National Park in southeastern Peru.
- Insight Crime, 03 October 2019Guatemala has destroyed nearly 1.5 million coca plants
- Reuters, 03 October 2019How Evo Morales in Bolivia away from traditional uses of the coca leaf, towards the greater production of coca paste and cocaine - the coca dictatorship of the Chapare, expansion of coca into Tipnis, and even cocaine production into the Yungas
- Pagina Siete, 02 October 2019Three pharmacy chains - Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS - are pulling the heartburn medication, Zantac, from their stores' shelves after the Food and Drug Administration warned that it had detected low levels of a cancer-causing chemical in samples of the drug.
- New York Times, 30 September 2019Víctor Hugo Cárdenas, former vicepresident of Bolivia: "Coca and cannabis can be used for medical purposes"
- El Diario, 29 September 2019There have been several clashes between the police and residents of Puerto Valdivia (north of Medellin, Colombia) concerning coca - while the Army ensures that the population is "instrumentalized" by those with arms, coca cultivators say they will not eradicate until the Government fulfills its word
- El Espectador, 27 September 2019Nestle steps up testing after finding high levels of a dangerous weedkiller, glyphosate, in coffee beans
- Zero Hedge, 27 September 2019Google's YouTube is experimenting with ways to make its algorithms even more addictive
- Technology Review, 27 September 2019In Bolivia, the president of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca), Franclin Gutiérrez, through his lawyer, Eusebio Vera, filed a criminal lawsuit yesterday for the crime of breach of obligations against the three prosecutors are prosecuting him
- El Diario, 27 September 2019The government of Colombia identified 32 obstacles for the industrialization of medicinal cannabis
- La Republica, 26 September 2019How the Blel family is a political dynasty that controls Cartagena, with the family patriarch, Vicente Blel, being recorded explaining how to get rich through rigging elections
- Colombia Reports, 26 September 2019The acting commissionar of the FDA says that the agency acted too slowly to avoid the vaping crisis.
- Wall Street Journal, 25 September 2019VIDEO: Peru's coca farmers are encouraged to switch to growing cacao
- EuroNews, 24 September 2019The military and police forces of Colombia should closely coordinate activities to combat the threat of Mexican cartels - they monopolize 100,000 hectares of coca crops in Colombia
- Portafolio, 24 September 2019More than a year after the death of the two coca growers who lost their lives in La Asunta, Eliseo Choque and Carlos Vega, leaders and friends demand justice because the Public Ministry of Bolivia has not yet initiated investigations
- El Diario, 24 September 2019Members of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca) denounced on Monday that a woman was attacked by officials of the General Directorate of Marketing and Industrialization of the Coca Leaf (Digcoin), when she took coca from the legal market of Villa Fátima (La Paz, Bolivia).
- Pagina Siete, 23 September 2019Nicotine drug trafficker, Juul Labs, is under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors amid investigations by the FTC and FDA
- ZeroHedge, 23 September 2019The Colombian Government pledged on Thursday to expedite the procedures to grant licenses for the manufacture of cannabis-derived medicines with the aim of growing the industry and having more exports
- El Pais, 20 September 2019INVIMA (National Institute for Food and Drug Surveillance - the FDA of Colombia) confirmed that before the end of September the roadmap for pharmaceutical laboratories will be published
- Portafolio, 20 September 2019Purdue Pharma let its opioid rivals in the (legal?) trafficking opioid pills that were more addictive
- Wall Street Journal, 20 September 2019Too many students in American high schools are addicted to nicotine, thanks to their widespread use of electronic cigarettes, and teachers and parents are very worried about the addiction
- New York Times, 20 September 2019India plans to ban the nicotine-based electronic cigarettes as the global backlash intensifies (against this form of drug trafficking)
- New York Times, 20 September 2919Guatemala joins ranks of cocaine producers as coca plantations and cocaine processing laboratories are discovered by security officials
- Reuters, 19 September 2019Humberto de la Calle (former peace negotiator in Colombia) writes about the (negtive) influence of Álvaro Uribe on the peace agreement - "Illicit Crops: the truth about the Colon Theater Agreement"
- El Tiempo, 19 September 2019Revenues of US $99 million this year for medical cannabis in Colombia - among the results is that on average the industry generates about 16 formal jobs for each hectare planted with cannabis
- El Tiempo, 19 September 2019Up to 40 mayors in small towns in France defy the French State and ban pesticides such as glyphosate being used by farmers
- New York Times, 18 September 2019Cundinamarca (province for Bogotá) is the protagonist of medical cannabis in Colombia - the department has the most licenses for the development of this industry in the country
- El Espectador, 18 September 2019New York state joins California in banning most flavors of nicotine drug delivery devices known as e-cigarettes, allowing only tobacco and menthol - due in part to 40% of 12th-grade students addicted to this form of nicotine
- CNN, 18 September 2019This is PAZarela, the fashion line from former FARC combatants, made by the Tejiendo Paz cooperative
- El Espectador, 18 September 2019Sales of cannabis in Latin America by 2023 will reach over $500 million
- Portafolio, 17 September 2019People addicted to nicotine due to using e-cigarettes and vaping, and now turning to tobacco cigarettes for relief from their addiction - "Juul made my nicotine addiction worse"
- NBC News, 15 September 2019Illicit crops in indigenous territories of Colombia: an alley with exit - there are cases that show that voluntary crop substitution is possible
- El Tiempo, 14 September 2019Sacha inchi: a superfood of peace in Colombia - more than 1,500 families in Putumayo have chosen to work with this nut to replace coca
- El Tiempo, 14 September 2019Coca eradication in Guaviare to combat deforestation - Colombian soldiers have eradicated 1,900 hectares of illicit crops in this area
- El Tiempo, 14 September 2019After the recent protests of the communities in Valdivia (Antioquia, Colombia) for breaches in the program of eradication of coca crops by the government, the Public Force decided to temporarily suspend these activities
- El Espectador, 13 September 2019There are about 400 productive projects benefitting the ex-Farc in Colombia - the projects range from coffee and handicraft producers, to extreme athletics
- El Tiempo, 13 September 2019Pressured by the U.S., Colombian soldiers destroy coca plants while be careful not to be killed by landmines, while civilian workers earn $530/month to work with the soldiers - all funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S>
- Reuters, 13 September 2019Peru to start uprooting coca plants in the Vraem, a top drug-trafficking region of the country, a 45-day operation starting November 1 will aim to destroy 750 hectares (1,853 acres) of coca plants
- Reuters, 12 September 2019The goal of coca eradication in Colombia has been met by 70% - there are 56,239 hectares of narco-crops that have been uprooted during the year
- El Tiempo, 11 September 2019European Union encourages the substitution of crops in Nariño (Colombia) - 200 families belonging to 7 community councils, which today are responsible for the cocoa production chain
- Diario del Sur, 09 September 2019The U.S. FDA issue warning letter to Juul Labs, slamming the e-cigarette maker for claims that its highly addictive nicotine-delivery products were a safer alternative to smoking and ordered the company to stop making unproven claims for its products
- Fox News, 09 September 2019The principal cause of violence in the Cauca province is the expansion of coca farming - since 2016, the year that the Peace Agreement was signed, in this region the amount of coca farming increased by 4,500 hectares
- El Pais, 09 September 2019While more than seven thousand peasants from the Jamundí mountain range insist on opposing the forced eradication of coca crops by the Public Force, Mexican and Colombian drug traffickers continue to use that corridor to do their drug transactions
- El Espectador, 09 September 2019Suárez (in the mountains west of Santander de Quilichao): the last "toll road" of drug trafficking towards the Pacific
- El Espectador, 08 September 2019As teen vaping of highly-addictive nicotine, and federally-illegal THC, reaches epidemic proportions in the United States, experts fear future social costs
- Salon, 08 September 2019The eternal return of coca crops to Bajo Cauca - despite the major reception of the inhabitants of Tarazá and Cáceres to the voluntary crop substitution programs, the peasants denounce that the failures of the Colombian Government are pushing them back to be the first link in the drug trafficking chain
- El Espectador, 06 September 2019John Hopkins University opens new center for medical research into psychedelic drugs and plants
- New York Times, 04 September 2019Germany will ban the use of the controversial glyphosate herbicide from the end of 2023, the government decided on Wednesday - the first limitations on the use of the herbicide will be launched next year
- Wall Street Journal, 04 September 2019Next for investors after marijuana are psychedlic drugs, with a few entrepreneurs and investors see opportunity for novel mental-health treatments using LSD and psychedelic mushrooms
- Wall Street Journal, 03 September 2019Germany will ban the use of the controversial glyphosate herbicide from the end of 2023, the government decided on Wednesday - the first limitations on the use of the herbicide will be launched next year
- El Espectador, 04 September 2019Prof. Luis Fernando Trejos: "The Márquez's announcement is directed more towards Bogota than the regions of Colombia"
- La Silla Vacia, 30 August 2019A brief introduction to the 14 new commanders of the reconstituted FARC guerilla group in Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 30 August 2019Missing FARC leaders rearm, announce ‘new phase’ in Colombia’s armed conflict
- Colombia Reports, 29 August 2019Colombia's former FARC guerilla leader, Luciano Marin alias Ivan Marquez, calls for a return to war because of what he called the government's violations of the peace agreement, a complaint shared by many former FARC members
- New York Times, 29 August 2019President Evo Morales of Bolivia acknowledges that the cocaine market regulates the price of coca - the president said that a part of the coca leaf harvest of the Tropic of Cochabamba and the Yungas of La Paz is diverted to the illegal market for other purposes
- Pagina Siee, 23 August 2019After 2 years, Bolivia reduces coca crops by 6% - the cultivated area was reduced by 1,400 hectares (Ha), from 24,500 Ha in 2017 to 23,100 Ha in 2018
- Los Tiempos, 23 August 2019For the coca crops in the Caribbean region of Colombia - unlike what happened elsewhere in the country, in the Caribbean region the crop harvests did not decrease
- La Silla Vacia, 22 August 2019Bolivia reduced coca crops by 6% and calls for equal effort from cocaine consuming countries
- La Razon, 22 August 2019In Tumaco, where cocoa has been cultivated for a long time, of very good quality, the illicit coca crops are being replaced by cocoa crops associated with aromatic herbs
- El Pais, 20 August 2019The construction of a new deep-water port in Ecuador, near Guayaquil, which will be able to handle post-Panamax ships, will take business away from the Colombian Pacific port of Buenaventura
- El Espectador, 17 August 2019While President Ivan Duque's former speechwriter is set to run the economic magazine of Colombia's largest newspaper, El Tiempo, the newspaper’s former politics editor is joining the presidential propaganda team
- Colombia Reports, 16 August 2019The FDA's new graphical warning labels for cigarette packages are very distrubing - as they should be
- New York Times, 16 August 2019The Gaviria family from Medellin: prolific land thieves - with or having had aliances with paramilitaries, and with Alvaro Uribe (the most powerful politician in Antioquia) - now after Colombia's 2nd largest economy - that of Antioquia province
- Colombia Reports, 15 August 2019Nicotine drug traffickers are flooding retail stores with sweet, teen-friendly nicotine pods to addict as many children as possible (unlike the coca alkaloid, nicotine is extremely addictive)
- New York Times, 13 August 2019Many companies are advertising CBD as a cure-all for everything, but many health claims are unproven, many contain THC, and many contain synthetic addictive drugs
- New York Times, 13 August 2019Emerging evidence that armed conflict and coca cultivation influence deforestation patterns - a study in Colombia
- Biological Conservation, 12 August 2019The takeover by Big Pharma of the medical cannabis industry, with patents as weapons
- Visual Capitalist, 12 August 2019The plan to end the growing of coca in eight provinces of Colombia - the UN argues that in one year this goal can be achieved in 8 regions that have less than 100 hectares of coca farming
- El Tiempo, 12 August 2019Lieutenant Colonel Cesar Augusto Martinez, chief of the Colombian Army's anti-kidnapping unit, and nephew of controversial Army chief Nicasio Martinez, is implicated in crimes of ... kidnapping
- Colombia Reports, 12 August 2019President Trump urged Colombia’s government to resume the aerial fumigation of coca on Thursday as he certified the country as cooperative with Washington’s counternarcotics efforts
- Colombia Reports, 09 August 2019President Trump urged Colombia’s government to resume the aerial fumigation of coca on Thursday as he certified the country as cooperative with Washington’s counternarcotics efforts
- El Pais, 09 August 2019President Trump urged Colombia’s government to resume the aerial fumigation of coca on Thursday as he certified the country as cooperative with Washington’s counternarcotics efforts
- El Tiempo, 09 August 2019The misguided effort of Colombian president Duque to restart aerial spraying of coca in Colombia with the cancer-causing glyphosate herbicide.
- World Political Review, 08 August 2019Luis Carlos Sarmiento, Colombia's richest man and a backer of Uribe and Duque, loses a $60 million tax lawsuit with the government over a debt that never existed
- Colombia Reports, 06 August 2019UN warns that coca plantations in the Llanos region of Colombia give five crops a year - report explains why although crops fell in 2018, sowing productivity increased
- El Tiempo, 05 August 2019Six reasons why the growth of coca crops in Colombia has slowed
- La Silla Vacia, 05 August 2019The inhabitants of the rural area of Jamundí (Colombia) are frightened by clashes between the Army and armed groups that seek to control illicit coca crops in the region
- El Pais, 05 August 2019Hectares of coca crops fall, but potential for coca production in Colombia rises - UN report highlights that last year there was a reduction of 2000 hectares of coca leaf plantings
- El Tiempo, 05 August 2019Colombia journalist Vicky Davila is married to Jose Emiro Gnecco, a physician whose family, the Gneccos, are allegedly a crime family that run the non-coastal Caribbean province of Cesar bordering Venezuela, with links to drug trafficking and paramilitary groups
- Colombia Reports, 04 August 2019Colombia will buy glyphosate from China to fumigate coca plants
- Dialogo Chino, 01 August 2019Colombia's national ombudsman, Carlos Negret, couldn’t possibly be more grim when he, governors and community leaders tried to describe the consequences of the chronic government abandonment in the Choco, Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño provinces - allowing 17 illegal armed groups to form
- Colombia Reports, 31 July 2019Peru's crackdown on coca pushes illegal growers toward protected areas in southeastern Peru
- Monga Bay, 30 July 2019Camilo Romero, the governor of Nariño (a province of Colombia) who declares himself in rebellion against Duque's crazy plan to bathe the coca fields in glyphosate, with a serious risk to the health of man and the environment
- El Espectador, 30 July 2019Luis Eladio Pérez, the Nariñense politician, who remained kidnapped in the jungle for seven years, explained his reasons for accepting the political support of those who held him illegally so he can be elected the next governor of Nariño
- El Espectador, 26 July 2019The government of Colombia is not complying with any of the five court-imposed conditions to resume fumigation of coca plantations with glyphosate
- Colombia Report, 26 July 2019Uncertainty surrounds the protection plan in Colombia for leaders of efforts to help farmers substitute other food plants for their current coca crops
- InSight Crime, 24 July 2019Police are investigating the death of a leader of coca farmers, Miguel Espeo Vargas, who was found hanging from a tree in the Yungas (Bolivia)
- La Razon, 23 July 2019These are the five conflicts that exist in the Colombian territory, according to the ICRC - Nariño/Cauca/Choco (Eln), Antioqua (Clan Golfo), Catatumbo (Eln/Epl), Putamayo/Guaviare/Meta (Farc dissidents)
- El Elspectador, 23 July 2019The 'thorns' in the way of the renewed use of glyphosate in Colombia after the decision of the Constitutional Court
- El Pais, 21 July 2019Franclin Gutiérrez, the political prisoner of the Evo Morales regime - there is no evidence against Gutiérrez - he is in jail for having opposed the legalization of the coca farms of the Chapare (most of which goes to cocaine production)
- Pagina Siete, 21 July 2019The Regional Indigenous Counsel of Cauca (CRIC in Spanish) denounced on Friday that some of its leaders have received death threat from members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, which has alliances with FARC dissidents and ELN guerillas
- El Espectador, 20 July 2019The Constitutional Court of Colombia (eight votes in favor) maintained the six conditions that it imposed in 2017 before the National Council of Narcotic Drugs can resume the use of glyphosate in the country, an organization that must monitor compliance "in good faith"
- El Espectador, 18 July 2019The Constitutional Court of Colombia (eight votes in favor) maintained the six conditions that it imposed in 2017 before the National Council of Narcotic Drugs can resume the use of glyphosate in the country, an organization that must monitor compliance "in good faith"
- La Silla Vacia, 18 July 2019Three points to understanding the Court's ruling on glyphosate - the ruling by the Constitutional Court on glyphosate made several clarifications about the requirements that had been established to re-fumigate with the herbicide
- El Tiempo, 18 July 2019How the booming farming of coca and trafficking of cocaine is threatening democracy in Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 18 July 2019Farmers with small palm tree plantations in Tumaco: caught between coca and their debt with the national Agricultural Bank
- El Tiempo, 18 July 2019The Constitutional Court of Colombia remains 'split', and failed to decide on the government's request to loosen its ban on the aerial spraying of the cancer-causing glyphosate in coca-growing regions
- Colombia Reports, 18 July 2019The Cauca province of Colombia is where they kill more social activists and ex-guerillas - the drug trafficking, illegal mining and disputes between armed groups for control of this region puts at risk the defenders of human rights
- El Espectador, 18 July 2019Sugary-sodas are still killing more Americans each year than any one illegal drug
- New York Times, 17 July 2019Colombia's last-standing rebel group, the ELN, has embarked on an ambitious expansion plan across the northern coca and cocaine region of Colombia, from the Pacific coast through Antioquia to the Venezuelan border
- Colombia Reports, 14 July 2019Resurgence of coca in Putumayo reflects Colombia's failed strategy
- Insight Crime, 12 July 2019Colombia's plans to resume aerial fumigation of coca just got less likely, after a key court magistrate advised against it
- Colombia Reports, 11 July 2019Illicit coca crops and illegal mining, behind threats to elections in Colombia - the multiplication of coca and the illegal extraction of minerals multiplies by four the capacity of the mafias to buy elections and intimidate citizens
- El Tiempo, 10 July 2019World's coffee growers seek to set minimum price to help poor farmers - growers from Brazil, Colombia and more than two dozen other countries will meet in Brazil to talk about how to get more money to farmers suffering from the lowest prices on world markets in more than a decade
- Wall Street Journal, 10 July 2019Coca, the illicit plan that funded Colombia's civil war, is flourishing again - Preident Duque's plan to destroy it is drawing opposition
- Washington Post, 09 July 2019- P> The president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (Apdhb), Amparo Carvajal, assured that there will be no peace in the Yungas while their maximum leader for the coca growers, Franclin Gutiérrez, does not return to occupy the position that belongs to him
- Pagina Siete, 09 July 2019Government of Colombia insists that it is complying with the substitution of coca crops - Emilio Archila, high councilor for Stabilization, reiterated that the Duque government is committed to make effective the substitution of illicit crops such as coca
- El Espectador, 08 July 2019Cocaleros in Bolivia plan to close all accesses to the Yungas - producers report constant abuses by police officers who arrived in the region
- El Diario, 08 July 2019Cultivating sacha inchi, FARC ex-combatants remain living in Arauca, Colombia
- El Espectador, 08 July 2019Mexican opium prices plummet 90 percent over the past two years (due to rising fentanyl supplies, and heroin production elsewhere), driving poppy farmers to migrate
- New York Times, 08 July 2019Guido Echeverri, governor of Caldas (Colombia) - "It is possible to eradicate coca crops without spraying glyphosate".
- El Espectador, 07 July 2019The transmission of Arenavirus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, is not due to the consumption of coca or fruits from the Yungas of Bolivia
- El Deber, 07 July 2019[Photos]: One of the main consequences of cocaine production is the destruction of biodiversity - thousands of hectares are burned by the coca farmers, affecting the fauna and flora of the region of Guaviare, Colombia
- El Espectador, 07 July 2019Colombia’s intelligence agency accused of plotting political warfare against peace advocates
- Colombia Reports, 07 July 2019Cannabis oil can reduce seizures in children experiencing severe and drug-resistant epilepsy, University of Saskatchewan study suggests
- CBC, 06 July 2019Coca leaf and cocaine production in Colombia is at historic highs, risking a new confrontation between soldiers and coca leaf farmers
- Economist, 06 July 2019La Constru’s focus on alliances means that it’s likely to remain a major player in Putumayo (Colombia), where the group controls coca crops, processing labs and drug trafficking routes into Ecuador
- InSight Crime, 05 July 2019Inconsistencies in official figures of Colombia on eradication of illicit crops? Data from the Ministry of Defense indicate that crops are eradicated at a much slower pace than President Ivan Duque has publicly maintained.
- El Espectador, 05 July 2019Colombia's challenges in the legal cannabis trade - while 46 countries have already legalized production and sale, domestic industry expects more regulation
- El Tiempo, 05 July 2019Austria votes to ban the use of glyphosate, the first country in Europe to do so, with other European countries proposing gradual phasing out of the use of glyphosate
- Wall Street Journal, 03 July 2019The Government of Bolivia closed yesterday any possibility of dialogue with the current leaders of the Association of Coca Producers (Adepcoca), while a judge sent to prison four cocaleros accused of illegal use of explosives in their protests<
- El Diario, 02 July 2019Colombian government denounces planting of anti-personnel landmines to protect coca crops
- Latin America Reports, 02 July 2019Six coca growers from the Departmental Association of Producers of Coca (Adepcoca) were detained for the use of explosives during the blockade of roads on the route to Los Yungas, according to the report of the Police Commander, Yuri Calderón
- Los Tiempos, 01 July 2019Adepcoca has been besieged by the MAS (the ruling party in Bolivia) since 2017
- El Diario, 01 July 2019Colombian tobacco farmers are studying chaning their plantings to medicinal marijuana
- El Tiempo, 30 June 2019Political fights for economic control for the four legal coca leaf markets in Bolivia, a multi-million dollar business based on 50-pound sacks of dried coca leaves
- El Deber, 30 June 2019The president of Colombia, Iván Duque: "Aerial aspersion using glyphosate is a necessary tool" - for the reduction of the 200,000+ hectares of coca plants in the country
- El Tiempo, 30 June 2019One of Colombia's most wanted drug lords was "protected by the military for month" (his brother-in-law is an Army colonel in charge of recruitment).
- Colombia Reports, 30 June 2019The challenge to maintain reductions in the illegal cultivations of coca in Colombia
- El Tiempo, 29 June 2019Opinion: drug trafficking has poisoned the governing party of Bolivia, the MAS
- Pagina Siete, 29 June 2019In Bolivia, the coca growers of the Yungas maintain their measure of pressure on the road to the Yungas - increasing the number of blockades on the highway, and a new blockade was installed in the sector called Velo de la Novia
- El Diario, 29 June 2019Police partially reopen vehicular traffic to the Yungas, and they denounce violence committed by the protesting coca growers of Bolivia
- La Razon, 29 June 2019The apathy of the OAS, and the secretary of the OAS - Luis Almagro, concerning the murders of social community leaders in Colombia
- El Espectador, 28 June 2019Two more social community leaders are assassinated in Colombia, including Manuel Gregorio Gonzalez - a promoter of a UN-supported program to substitutecoca for legal crops
- Colombia Reports, 28 June 2019Bolivian police warn with arrests and prosecutions of the coca growers blocking the roadways in Yungas who are using dynamite
- La Razon, 28 June 2019Bolivian police arrest two coca growers in the midst of clashes due to the blockage of the highway to the Yungas
- La Razon, 28 June 2019Four police chiefs in Bolivia are denounced for raiding the Adepcoca headquarters
- La Razon, 28 June 2019Roadblock in Yungas results in people being wounded and detained - Adepcoca coca growers add support
- Los Tiempos, 28 June 2019Removing the blockade on the highway to the Yungas leaves two people injured
- Pagina Siete, 28 June 2019Colombia's glyphosate debate: the opposition of the UN and the Catholic Church versus the support of the U.S. and President Duque's alma mater (Sergio Arboleda University)
- Colombia Reports, 27 June 2019Science that never came to the drug debate - the annual report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy pointed out the enormous inconsistencies that have existed between science and the way in which psychoactive substances are classified in the world
- El Espectador, 26 June 2019In Bolivia, the coca producers activated blockades at the Santa Bárbara, Mururata and Elena bridges, which prevent the passage to the towns of Caranavi, Guanay and Palo Blancos - the route to Sud Yungas is clear
- La Razon, 28 June 2019Adepcoca maintains two blockades on the highway to Los Yungas
- Los Tiempos, 28 June 2019Producers related to MAS ask to convert Enatex into a coca leaf market.
- Los Tiempos, 28 June 2019Adepcoca reorganizes the highway blockade and closes the roadway to the Yungas
- Pagina Siete, 28 June 2019Tension in the Yungas due to the coca grower's highway blockake - reports on confrontations in Unduavi
- El Diario, 28 June 2019The new statistics of the United States on illicit crops in Colombia have undoubtedly removed the specter of a possible decertification for non-compliance in the fight against drugs.
- El Tiempo, 28 June 2019With voluntary coca eradication in Colombia, reseeding is only 6 percent
- El Tiempo, 27 June 2019Coca crops stabilize in Colombia, says US government report
- El Tiempo, 26 June 2019The US government says production of coca and cocaine is levelling off in Colombia
- El Espectador, 26 June 2019Adepcoca confirms blockade of routes and that Bolivia police have besieged Trinidad Pampa - at least 25 police cars are on the road between El Choro Grande and Trinidad Pampa
- Pagina Siete, 25 June 2019Cutting the electric power of four municipalities of Cauca in the fight against drug trafficking could be a social bomb in one of the hearts of the conflict in Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 23 June 2019María del Pilar Hurtado, leader of a displaced community in Tierralta (one of Colombia's northern coca growing regions) is murdered
- Colombia Reports, 22 June 2019María del Pilar Hurtado, threatened in a phamplet of the right-wing militia the AGC in Córdoba (northern Colombia), is assassinated
- Colombia Reports, 22 June 2019Skyrocketing coca production could see President Trump cut aid to Colombia - production has more than tripled since 2013
- Zero Hedge, 20 June 2019Why Colombia should legalize coca and leave cocaine to others
- WorldCrunch, 19 June 2019Government of Colombia plans to resume spraying with glyphosate in "a matter of weeks" - President Ivan Duque and Defense Minister Guillermo Botero, referred from London to the use of the herbicide in the eradication of illicit crops of coca leaf
- El Espectador, 18 June 2019"Army in northeast Colombia is stigmatizing, threatening and even shooting at civilians" - the coca-rich region of Catatumbo has become a melting pot of armed groups of which it has become impossible to distinguish who is fighting who
- Colombia Reports, 16 June 2019The alleged killer of Eduardo Apaza, the coca grower leader of the Yungas (Bolivia), was apprehended in the vicinity of La Asunta, when he tried to escape capture
- El Diario, 15 June 2019Indigenous Colombians fear losing supplies of ayahuasca, as "ayahuasca" tourism becomes more popular and and commercialiation leads to bad practices that hurt the reputation of traditional practices
- Economist, 15 June 2019Drug trafficking and petrol: a quarter of Colombia's fuel goes to make cocaine - about 75 gallons of fuel are needed for each kilogram of coca paste
- The Guardian, 14 June 2019How to seriously reduce coca crops in Colombia?
- El Espectador, 14 June 2019Located in Chuquiaguillo, the illegal market for taques (50 lb sacks) of coca leaves sells for 2,100 to 2,300 bolivianos ($300 to $330) with the official seals of the Digcoin (the government coca industrialization agency in Bolivia).
- Pagina Siete, 14 June 2019Killers assassinate Eduardo Apaza, leader of the coca producers of La Asunta - he was killed with a firearm when he returned home
- La Razon, 13 June 2019Killers assassinate Eduardo Apaza, leader of the coca producers of La Asunta - he was killed with a firearm when he returned home.
- El Diario, 13 June 2019Killers assassinate Eduardo Apaza, leader of the coca producers of La Asunta - he was killed with a firearm when he returned home.
- ErBol, 13 June 2019The government of Bolivia authorizes, in the Chuquiaguillo zone, a warehouse for coca leaves outside of the control of Adepcoca (the coca growers association mostly not affiliated with the government's ruling party)
- Los Tiempos, 13 June 2019The government of Bolivia authorizes, in the Chuquiaguillo zone, a warehouse for coca leaves outside of the control of Adepcoca (the coca growers association mostly not affiliated with the government's ruling party)
- Pagina Siete, 13 June 2019Suicide by soldiers due to Colombia's military's brutal training methods has caused more deaths than due to the FARC killing soldiers in Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 13 June 2019US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the US Congress that the US still strongly supports the resumption of aerial spraying of pesticide on Colombian coca fields with the cancer-causing pesticide glyphosate
- Colombia Reports, 12 June 2019Coca growers from the Yungas region of northern Bolivia, affliated with the government ruling party (MAC), announced that they are forming committees to take control of the northern coca growers association, Adepcoca
- El Diario, 12 June 2019Lohas Beans is an export company specializing in certified coffees that has just bought 22 tons of coffee from former FARC combatants in Colombia
- Semana, 11 June 2019Colombian Senator, and opposition leader, Gustavo Petro upsets Colombia's sugar plantation owners with a deadly statistic: sugar kills more people than cocaine
- Colombia Reports, 11 June 2019Colombian Senator, and opposition leader, Gustavo Petro upsets Colombia's sugar plantation owners with a deadly statistic: sugar kills more people than cocaine
- El Pais, 10 June 2019Colombia's ombudsman warns of presence of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel in Caqueta province (southern Colombia) where much coca is grown, the cartel possibly teaming with the Southeastern Block, the largest FARC dissident group
- Colombia Reports, 10 June 2019Four members of the native Colombian Awa people have been murdered in the Nariño province (southwest Colombia) over the past week as the community is caught in the crossfire of a drug-fueled turf war
- Colombia Reports, 10 June 2019Every day, 30 small planes fly out of the Beni region of Bolivia with upwards of 500 kilograms of cocaine each, most flying to Brazil
- Pagina Siete, 09 June 2019In Bolivia, the global deflation in commodity prices weakens the local economy of soy, sugar cane, rice and corn producers
- El Deber, 09 June 2019The clashes between peasants and the Public Force in Puerto Asis, Putumayo, for the forced eradication of coca, revived the concern about the effects of the stagnation of the substitution program and the breach of the agreements agreed with the communities in Colombia
- El Espectador, 08 June 2019Former coca growers - 2,700 families - in northern Colombia are "starving" as Colombia fails to provide them with alternative crops to grow and access to farmer's markets to sell their produce
- Colombia Reports, 03 June 2019How Semana, Colombia's most influential magazine, became a threat to (coca) journalism
- Colombia Reports, 31 May 2019Colombia's opposition parties reiterated their concern on Thursday after far-right group "Aguilas Negras" threatened to kill "all leftist followers of Senator Gustavo Petro", who lost last year's election to President Ivan Duque
- Colombia Reports, 31 May 2019Two days after Colombia's leading "liberal" weekly magazine, the Santos-family controlled "Semana", claims it defends freedom of expression for its reporters, it fires one of its reporters for his recent expressions
- Colombia Reports, 29 May 2019The increasing dangers facing Latin America's national park rangers due to coca farming and drug trafficking
- Insight Crime, 29 May 2019A charitable initiative iby Nespresso will help farmers in Colombia's southwestern mountains (El Rosario, Narino) trade nearly 400 hectares of coca for coffee
- Reuters, 28 May 2019Colombian coffee growers are in crisis due to the lower global price of coffee
- El Espectador, 28 May 2019Luis Almagro, Carlos Romero, coca and cocaine in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 24 May 2019From January to April in Peru, government forces in Peru capture 564 tons of chemical supplies used to convert coca to cocaine in the VRAEM
- El Comercio, 20 May 2019Study finds CBD effective in treating heroin addiction, reducing cravings for the drug as well as levels of anxiety
- CNN, 21 May 2019Instead of informing the public, Colombia’s leading weekly (Revista Semana, along with La Tiempo, controlled by the Santos family) informed Duque about army controversy against civilians that was eventually reported on by the New York Times
- Colombia Reports, 21 May 2019The $34 million airport built in the small coca growing town of Chimore, in the middle of Bolivia's Chapare coca and cocaine region
- Pagina Siete, 20 May 2019Colombian Army's orders to kill/capture more criminals and militants are putting civilians at risk, officers say
- New York Times, 18 May 2019Colombia's peace deal promised a new era, but the rebels are rearming because the government has failed to deliver promised help
- New York Times, 18 May 2019Video released of FARC leader, Jesus Santrich, NOT talking about drug trafficking with DEA agents, which is why he was released from jail, to the displeasure of the US
- Colombia Reports, 17 May 2019How the DEA and Colombia'a national prosecutors could have broker the law in attampt to extradite FARC leader Santrich
- Colombia Reports, 17 May 2019In Colombia, if coca is regulated, then peace is guaranteed
- La Silla Vacia, 16 May 2019Coca vendors in Bogota working to destimatise the coca plant
- Talking Drugs, 09 May 2019High-profile arrests won't stem cocaine production in Peru's VRAEM, Peru's largest coca-producing region
- InSight Crime, 08 May 2019Denver, Colorado, is preparing to vote on the decriminilization of hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms
- Salon, 06 May 2019Traces of cocaine and ayahuasca found in 1000-year-old shamanic pouch uncovered in southwestern Bolivian highlands
- National Geographic, 06 May 2019Bodyguards injured in attack on Afrocolombian leaders in Santander de Quilichao (southwest Colombia), attackers connected with the Aguilas Negras, a far-right group that opposed the ethnic minorities in land disputes with large land owners
- Colombia Reports, 03 May 2019Colombia's constitutional court believes phones and offices are bugged, with some judges believing that the US DEA is involved, which wants to learn about how the court might rule on the illegality of using glyphosate to eradicate coca
- Colombia Reports, 29 April 2019A commander of Colombia's armed forces, General Diego Villegas, on Saturday apologized for the torture and murder of a demobilized FARC guerrilla, a torture and murder that has been defended three times, using at least two lies, by the defense minister, Guillermo Botero
- Colombia Reports, 29 April 2019The confidential Colombia report on glyphosate
- El Espectador, 24 April 2019The former head of Colombia’s mining association ACM and CEO of gold mining firm Minesa (mostly owned by the United Arab Emirates) has been caught on video saying that "communities don't matter" for decision makers in Bogota to approve mining projects
- Colombia Reports, 24 April 2019Coffee prices plunge due to massive production in Brazil, combined with currency gyrations, has created a glut of cheap, premium coffee
- Wall Street Journal, 23 April 2019To the Peruvian government: a letter in solidarity with Peruvian coca growers.
- Andean Information Network, 17 April 2019A paramilitary group, the AGC, allegedly assassinated a native Colombian leader, Aquileo Mecheche, in the northwest of the country (Choco), half a year after he requested protection from the government
- Colombia Reports, 14 April 2019The true influence of Mexican drug traffickers in Colombia - in addition to monitoring production of cocaine, the Mexicans give weapons as payments for security and shipments
- El Tiempo, 14 April 2019In 2019 so far, Colombia has manually eradicated 19,251 hectares of illegal cultivations of the coca leaf
- El Pais, 13 April 2019The economy of the ex-guerrillas of the FARC in Colombia - although they work on 144 projects, for now four have a consolidated market
- El Tiempo, 13 April 2019In Colombia's coca heartland (Caquetá department in the southwest), photos and drawings show life between war and peace
- NPR, 13 April 2019Clashes in Peru coca eradication operation leave at least two dead in the Puno region
- Reuters, 12 April 2019How the corruption of the Hidroituango dam in northern Colombia, owned by EPM - the state owned utilities company in Medellin, has caused more killings of civilians and social leaders in the area of one of the principal cocaine transportation routes out of Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 12 April 2019Colombia and the United States: six key issues to understand their relationship based on the anti-drug fight.
- El Espectador, 11 April 2019Colombia - 40 years trapped in the business of cocaine trafficking
- El Tiempo, 11 April 2019Kevin Whitaker, the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, conceded during an interview with the W Radio radio station that there exists mutual responsibility between both countries for the increase in the cultivation of coca leaf
- El Pais, 11 April 2019Returning to coca? The peace efforts fail to arrive in the southeast region of Colombia
- El Espectador, 10 April 201972 percent of those surveyed in Bolivia believe that President Evo Morales should resign as the head of the coca farmers' unions of the southern Chapare region, and 58% of those surveyed think that Morales discriminates against the northern coca growers in the Yungas
- Pagina Siete, 05 April 2019Why is Monsanto condemned in California (glyphosate) and welcomed in Bolivia?
- Pagina Siete, 05 April 2019The report of the US Department of State once again places Bolivia as the third largest producer of coca and cocaine in the world and expresses its concern over the "inadequate controls" over the legal markets of this bush
- La Razon, 01 April 2019How Colombia's counternarcotics efforts lost effect since Duque took office, including the failure of providing support to farmers to cultivate crops other than coca
- Colombia Reports, 31 March 2019Some of Colombia's top food and beverage - Postobon, Nacional de Chocolates - industries had/have links to a Medeillin crime syndicate, Heroes Granada Bloc, with Postobon earlier reported to have financed the Arlex Hurtado crime group in Uraba
- Colombia Reports, 29 March 2019"Heavily armed men" displace farmers from their towns in northern Colombia, including in Ituango and Puerto Libertador,after government fails to substitute removed coca crops
- Colombia Reports, 26 March 2019A leader who promoted the substitution of crops for illicit use was murdered a week ago in Tumaco, Nariño, the municipality with the most coca in Colombia - the communities are committed to replacing those crops, but they do not see the will of the Government to support them
- El Espectador, 25 March 2019The coca growers of Colombia are confronting stark choices over crops, since for may, forsaking coca for traditional crops has been a costly choice and one they warn they may be forced to reverse
- France 24, 24 March 2019Coca leaf and landmines, the cocktail for the forgotten war in Chocó, Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 20 March 2019Days after Duque urged to spray his own people, US jury rules that glyphosate is "substantial" cancer factor
- Colombia Reports, 20 March 2019In Bolivia, the legal defense of Franclin Gutiérrez has observed that the investigations of the facts that he is charged with, linked to the death of a police official, Daynor Sandóval, have severe deficiencies
- El Diario, 20 March 2019After almost seven months of his detention, the [Provincial] Association of Coca Products (Adepcoca) of the Los Yungas region (Bolivia) returned to the streets in protest to demand the freedom of the director, Franclin Gutiérrez
- La Razon, 19 March 2019The civil war in Tumaco, Colombia, now is attacking the leaders of efforts to substitute legal foods crops instead of coca growing
- La Silla Vacia, 19 March 2019Bolivian coca farmers stage mass chew-in in La Paz to protest against eradication efforts (video).
- Deutsche Welle, 19 March 2019Doubts over crop eradication versus substitution are crippling rural communities in Colombia.
- Insight Crime, 18 March 2019The murders of social leaders in Colombia do not stop - this Sunday, March 17, the renowned leader of substitution of illicit crops, Argemiro López Pertuz, was murdered in the village of La Guayacana, district of Llorente, municipality of Tumaco, Nariño
- El Espectador, 18 March 2019The anguished disappearance of the son of a social leader in Santander de Quilichao, Andrés Felipe Montoya Ospinal - his father, Fernando Montoya Valencia has led several community processes in the north of Cauca in Colombia
- El Espectador, 18 March 2019Ex-FARC combatants are "profoundly worried" by Duque's ongoing attacks on Colombia's peace process.
- Colombia Reports, 17 March 2019In Colombia, the rural coca growers have been forced into the logic of an illegal economy, when then also have rights
- La Silla Vacia, 17 March 2019Glyphosate en Colombia: a threat to communities and nature
- El Espectador, 15 March 2019In Colombia, many drinks have more sugar in them than its stated on the products' labels
- El Espectador, 15 March 2019Glyphosate alone won't fix Colombia's complex coca woes.
- Insight Crime, 14 March 2019Of the almost 50,000 hectares of coca plants in Peru, the largest area since 2012, more than 117,000 metric tons of dried coca leaves were produced, 11% more than the previous year
- Gestion, 14 March 2019The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, defends in Vienna the legal uses of the coca leaf, calls again for a regional anti-drug trafficking intelligence center, and asks to eliminate tax havens
- La Razon, 14 March 2019Is it convenient to return to using glyphosate to stop the farming of coca leaf in Colombia? The viewpoints of two ex-ministers
- El Pais, 11 March 2019Opinion: the ethical failure in returning to the use of glyphosate in Colombia
- El Espectador, 10 March 2019Editorial: it is clear that the Chapare region isn't a zone for the production of platanos, nor uniquely of coca, but IS the zone of drug traffickign, where the government increasingly has less of a presence - it is a dangerous region of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 10 March 2019The debate between President Duque and ex-President Santos for spraying coca with glyphosate in Colombia - the President asked not to discard any tool and Santos asked to prioritize the substitution
- El Tiempo, 08 March 2019Women coca and poppy growers from the Andes share their experiences (video).
- Andean Information Network, 08 March 2019Peruvian farmers are abandoning coffee plantations for coca fields.
- Insight Crime, 07 March 2019Colombia's president, Ivan Duque, defends use of glyphosate to destroy coca crops before the Constitutional Court
- Reuters, 07 March 2019In the Constitutional Court of Colombia, the Government is almost alone in its defense of the fumigation of coca with glyphosate
- La Silla Vacia, 07 March 2019The human costs of the forced eradication of coca - is glyphosate the solution?
- La Silla Vacia, 07 March 2019The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB/JIFE) warns of the increase of coca crops in several regions of Colombia
- El Pais, 07 March 2019President Duque will tell the Constitutional Court of Colombia that nothing works against coca except for glyphosate
- El Tiempo, 07 March 2019Government of Bolivia defends leaders of coca producers in the Chapare and denies there are illegal groups
- Los Tiempos, 07 March 2019Controversy: Cocalero leader, Leonardo Loza, offers cholitas to authorities in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 07 March 2019The head of the Democratic Unity (UD) bench in the Bolivian Senate, Yerko Núñez, sent a letter to President Evo Morales asking him to resign as the leader of the six federations of coca growers in the Cochabamba tropics
- El Diario, 07 March 2019Special Force for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (FELCN) in Bolivia prepares for operations in the Chapare; cocaleros deny protection to drug trafficking
- La Razon, 06 March 2019Is the DEA trying to undermine Colombia’s war crimes tribunal?
- Colombia Reports, 06 March 2019Tomorrow, a hearing in the Constitutional Court of Colombia about the fumigation of coca leaf cultivations using glyposhate
- El Tiempo, 06 March 2019Residents of La Asunta (Bolivia) maintain their blockade of roads against the FTC (anti-drug police) - the people of Asunta decided that they will not allow the eradication of their coca crops, as it is a traditional and ancestral zone for cultivation
- Pagina Siete, 05 March 2019Representatives of different opposition political fronts and opinion leaders assure that the justice and the authorities of the Government of Bolivia have a favoritism towards the coca growers of the Chapare
- Pagina Siete, 05 March 2019400 protesters clash with riot police in northern Colombia, demonstrating against government failures to help change farms from coca, as farmers return to coca cultivation.
- Colombia Reports, 04 March 2019Coffee growers in Colombia are exploring the withdrawing of Colombian coffees from commodities exchanges as historically low prices threaten farmer livelihoods and therefore, the health of the coffee sector
- Daily Coffee News, 28 February 2019Coffee farmers in Peru abandon crops to grow coca, due to slumping coffee prices and delays in certifying organic beans, according to the country's National Coffee Board
- Reuters, 25 February 2019President Duque does not agree with the goals of reducing coca in Colombia, how then to help him adjust them? The goal of the National Development Plan is to eliminate 280 thousand hectares, 109 thousand more than those that exist in Colombia. Why does Duque intend to eradicate more hectares than there are?
- La Silla Vacia, 21 February 2019Aggressive coca eradication threatens voluntary substitution efforts in Colombia.
- Insight Crime, 19 February 2019The Chulumani Prosecutor's Office, Bolivia, cites six Adepcoca leaders (including one of Adepcoca's main leaders, Sergio Pampa) for the attack on the Digcoin director, Martín Serrudo
- La Razon, 19 February 2019The Council of Peasant Federations of the Yungas (Cofecay) decided to reactivate the so-called "self-defense committees" to avoid further attacks by the police - they demanded alternative projects to replace coca production
- La Razon, 19 February 2019The government of Colombia promises to fulfill agreements for the substitution of illicit crops and keeps its word with the 130,000 families that signed commitments of substitution for illicit crops
- El Espectador, 18 February 2019More than half of Colombia's media reliant on state propaganda funds - the vast majority of Colombia's media outlets depend on 'official advertising' for 40 to 50% of their revenue.
- Colombia Reports, 18 February 2019Cocaleros from Bolivia activate self-defense committees to prevent police from entering the Yungas - for the cocaleros, the aggression against the director of Digcoin is a 'self-attack' made by the Government
- Pagina Siete, 18 February 1029The Cochabamba province, in particular the Chapare region, is now the epicenter of laboratories for purifying cocaine in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 17 February 2019In Bolivia, the leaders of the coca farmers in the Los Yungas region warn that the government intends to "decapitate" their leadership in order to seize control of the regional association of coca growers (Adepcoca).
- El Diario, 16 February 2019The anti-drug campaigns in Colombia - $20 billion spent in 10 years and few successes
- El Tiempo, 15 February 2019In Bolivia, the leaders of the coca farmers in the Los Yungas region warn that the government intends to "decapitate" their leadership in order to seize control of the regional association of coca growers (Adepcoca)
- La Razon, 15 February 2019The leader of coca growers from La Asunta, Bolivia - Freedy Quispe - denounces police intervention in La Asunta and the detention of three people
- La Razon, 14 February 2019Weedkiller glyphosate, used to eradicate coca leaves, raises risk of non-Hodgkin lymphona by 41%.
- The Guardian, 14 February 2019In Colombia, there is a negative correlation between coca farming and homicides, for example, in towns with coca farming there is no relation between the number of hectares farmed with coca and the rate of homicides
- La Silla Vacia, 13 February 2019The seven politicians behind the Hidroituango dam, one of the worst environmental disasters in Colombia's history - starting with former president Alvaro Uribe
- Colombia Reports, 13 February 2019Desperate Venezuelan migrants turn to Colombia coca plantations for jobs picking coca leaves for drug traffickers
- France 24, 12 February 2019In Bolivia, the association of northern coca leaf growers, Adepcoca, announces a lawsuit against Minister César Cocarico for accusing their members of physically assaulting a government official, Martín Serrudo
- La Razon, 11 February 2019Government of Bolivia refuses to create a tax on coca to finance the SUS (Sistema Único de Salud - Unified Health System) and says there is money - the representative of the doctors of La Paz said that a tax on coca, sweet drinks and tobacco could finance the insurance.
- Pagina Siete, 09 February 2019In Colombia, where gold mining and coca farming are a toxic mix.
- World Crunch, 08 February 2019Putumayo, the first electoral alliance of the Farc with alternative movements in Colombia - a common block that helps them to win the Governorship
- La Silla Vacia, 05 February 2019We support legal action that seeks to defend the sale of coca leaf products outside of indigenous territories in Colombia
- Dejusticia, 04 February 2019Colombia's power brokers, families and clans - ranchers, businessmen and the narco-elite - that have long been obtaining power through both legal and illegal means, also behind mass killings of social leaders.
- Colombia Reports, 04 February 2019Editorial: to reach the new goal of eradication of illicit crops in Colombia, it will be necessary to overcome obstacles.
- El Tiempo, 03 February 2019The absence of deaths in Tumaco, Colombia, the world's leading coca growing region, is the result of a pact between illegals, driven by social leaders to save their lives.
- La Silla Vacia, 03 February 2019"Rodigo Cadete", a mid-level FARC dissident, is killed in San Vincente del Caguan (east of Popayan), a largely rural municipality in the southern Caqueta province.
- Colombia Reports, 03 February 2019From today, medicinal marijuana is legal in Portugal
- El Espectador, 01 February 2019Machu Picchu wellness tour includes coca-leaf reading.
- Los Angeles Times, 01 February 2019Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf.
- Mongabay, 23 January 2019Threats to deputies, the indigenous and journalists in Putumayo
- El Espectador, 20 January 2019It happened again: DEA agent in Colombia, Jose Irizarry, stole millions, and hosted yacht parties with hookers.
- Zero Hedge, 17 January 2019The EPL guerrila pour gasoline on the coca wars in Valle province in Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 15 January 2019Colombia's chief prosecutor, Nestor Humberto Martinez, manipulated DEA evidence linking him to Supreme Court bribes.
- Colombia Reports, 14 January 2019No, the U.S. and Colombia will not eradicate 50% of Colombian coca by 2023.
- Today Colombia, 11 January 2019Without the invovlement of FARC, the drug trafficker in Colombia more now has a Mexican accent
- La Silla Vacia, 09 January 2019Hollywood's lazy obsession with cocaine drug cartels, with Latinos killing each other - instead of the normal, exciting lives of Latinos, including, say, industrializing coca
- New York Times, 05 January 2019Bees in Bolivia are under threat from pesticides uses to grow coca.
- Voice of America, 07 January 2019Colombia's coca substitution plan is bringing death and discord to the Putamayo region.
- Latino USA, 07 January 2019Seven conclusions about the murder of social leaders in Colombia, including: they are not being killed for reasons of mining or coca farming, but for battles over land rights
- La Silla Vacia, 05 January 2019The use of pesticides against pesty insects of coca fields, added to climate change and other factors, threaten the survival of bees in Bolivia, according to beekeepers and experts
- La Razon, 04 January 2019Coca leaf farming in Colombia continues being the major worry of the United States
- El Espectador, 02 January 2019Government of Colombia says it exceeded its goal in 2018 for eradication of illicit coca and marijuana crops
- El Pais, 28 December 2018Culture and ancestral art for coca: the value of traditional knowledge of Colombia's Pacific black communities
- El Espectador, 28 December 2018Medellin's largest public hospital closes, one of hundreds struggling because of massive corruption with Colombia's privatized health insurance program, EPS, with reform blocked in Congress since law passed in 1994 due to EPS companies being owned by in part by, or bribing, members of Colombia's Congress
- Colombia Report, 26 December 2018The Bolivian Joint Task Force of reported that due to its management it doubled the eradication of coca crops in the Yungas, where twice as much was eliminated as in 2017
- Pagina Siete, 21 December 2018Editorial: coca farming or banana farming for the Chapare region of Bolivia?
- Pagina Siete, 21 December 2018The extreme risk of wanting to replace coca - in the last two years, at least 63 leaders of illicit crop substitution programs have been killed
- El Espectador, 21 December 2018Senator Feliciano Valencia denounces attack against his brother in Cauca - Germán Valencia, defender of human rights and member of the Association of Indigenous Councils of the North of Cauca (ACIN), was attacked by masked men in his house in the village of Vilachí, Santander de Quilichao
- El Espectador, 21 December 2018Colombia’s ambassador to the United Nations was criticized this week after abstained from voting on a UN declaration that sought to advance the rights of small farmers who make up approximately one fifth of Colombia's population
- Colombia Reports, 20 December 2018The Colombian far-right group, Aguilas Negras, offers rewards to those who kill indigenous leaders in the coca growing areas of the north Cauca department, while dissident FARC guerillas offer protection to those threatened
- Colombia Reports, 20 December 2018A double crime: murder of a civic leader, and a psychologist with the Agency for Reincorporation and Normalation, in the Caquetá department, southwest of the Valle de Cauca.
- El Espectador, 20 December 2018Low coffee bean prices brew trouble for farmers (or those switching from coca to coffee) - the problems are caused by by currency fluctuations that are encouraging sales and production in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, while forcing coffee growers in other countries to migrate for new jobs.
- Wall Street Journal, 20 December 2018From cocaine to cacao: Joel Palacios's mission to save Colombia's farmers through chocolate
- NPR, 19 December 2018Changes to Colombia's peace agreement with the FARC puts the agreement in jeopardy, already trouble due the government's failed efforts to successfully implement a coca crop substitution program
- InSight Crime, 18 December 2018Why Colombia is losing the cocaine war - its lack of support for the rural families that rely on growing coca leaves to survive.
- Vox, 18 December 2018A report of the UN Office of Drug Control, about Bolivia, indicates that the volume of production in the Chapare is 2.8 metric tons per hectare, while in the valleys of La Paz (the Yungas) is about 1.3 metric tons per hectare
- Pagina Siete, 16 December 2018The U.S. General Accounting Office concludes that despite spending $10 billion since 1999, the U.S. DEA does not know if any of its efforts are working, in the face of tripling of cocaine production in Colombia from 2013 through 2017.
- Colombia Reports, 16 December 2018Bolivia Says NO, an opposition party, outlines respect for traditional coca activities and normalization of relations with the US
- La Razon, 11 December 2018Colombia’s largest paramilitary and drug trafficking group (controlling half the cocaine exported), the AGC, said Sunday that it would redouble efforts to assume control over the country’s main cities in a blistering attack on President Ivan Duque.
- Colombia Reports, 10 December 2018Second indigenous governor, Edwin Dagua, governor of the Huellas indigenous reserve in Caloto (Cauca, north of Popayan - a coca growing region) assassinated in southwest Colombia in one week.
- Colombia Reports, 08 December 2018In North of Nariño the a group coordinated by 'Gentil Duarte' grows - the Estiven González front (FEG), a self-proclaimed dissident group of the Farc
- La Silla Vacia, 03 December 2018Armed men attack indigenous reserve in Ricaurte, Nariño (southwest Colombia) - two leaders are killed and four injured - where several illegal armed groups are vying for control over territory, farms growing coca, and drug trafficking routes
- Colombia Reports, 03 December 2018Colombia tries to help farmers exit the cocaine business - and is failing to do so.
- NPR, 24 November 2018From coca leaves to cocoa: three lessons from Peru on how coca farmers can leave the drug trade behind.
- European Sting, 22 November 2018Beset with problems, Colombia's new president, Ivan Duque, shows little sense of direction
- Economist, 22 November 2018Travel to the depths of the world of coca in Cauca, Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 18 November 2018Security, dissidents, ELN, crop substitution and social protest are some of the issues that continue to generate uncertainty in regions of the country at the 100th anniversary of the mandate of President Iván Duque de Colombia
- El Espectador, 16 November 2018The first civil eradicator of coca leaves, Libardo Itaz Cruz dies after triggering an anti-personnell mine in Tumaco, Colombia
- El Tiempo, 16 November 2018The Attorney General, Néstor Humberto Martínez, was formally denounced on Wednesday before the Accusation Committee of the Colombia House of Representatives after his voice appeared in audios that shook the case of bribes paid by Odebrecht in Colombia
- El Tiempo, 14 November 2018One of the first decisions of the new national government of Colombia was to free, at 97,000 families, the number of families that are taking part in a voluntary substitution program for illegal cultivations such as coca and marijuana
- El Tiempo, 14 November 2018Some 6,500 former guerrillas of the FARC have abandoned their reintegration camps and approximately 2,000 have rearmed, due to chronic failures by the government to facilitate the peace process, the mass killing of social leaders and growing fears of violent retaliation among demobilized members of the FARC
- Colombia Reports, 14 November 2018600 more lawsuits, now up to 9,300 lawsuit, are filed against Bayer over its subsidiary, Monsanto, sales of the cancer-causing pesticide, glyphosate - the main ingredient in Roundup weedkiller (glyphosate used in South America to eradicate coca plants)
- Wall Street Journal, 14 November 2018The best return on investments (campaign donations for government contracts) when buying politicians in Colombia, led by Antioquia province
- Colombia Reports, 12 November 2018How misguided American drug policies aggravate the growing chaos and crime in Central America
- Wall Street Journal, 11 November 2018Glyphosate, the herbicide most applied in Bolivia, used primarily at soy bean plantations - but various countries have prohibited its use, such as Sri Lanka and Italy, and Germany will eliminate the use of glyphosate for its farming.
- El Diario, 11 November 2018The future of coffee in Colombia is to seek a sustainable society and economy [the same for coca].
- Portafolio, 10 November 2018The government of Colombia will restart fumigation of coca and marijuana with drones, planes and pesticide trucks, using glyphosate
- El Tiempo, 10 November 2018The production of cacao in Colombia in the 2017/2018 farming season dropped by 14.5% - among the reasons to explain the drop are heavy rains that affected the principal growing regions
- La Republica, 10 November 2018Benjamin Ramos is murdered in the Phillipines, a lawyer who helped poor clients whose families have been targeted by the police, soldiers and death squads associated with the drug war of President Rodrigo Duterte
- New York Times, 08 November 2018The Bolivian government rejects estimations made by the United States about Bolivia's cultivation of coca leaf and production of cocaine
- El Deber, 07 November 2018The Bolivian government rejects estimations made by the United States about Bolivia's cultivation of coca leaf and production of cocaine
- La Razon, 07 November 2018Colombia's defense minister, Guillermo Botero, said the proposal to remove electric power supplies in areas where there are laboratories for processing illicit crops (coca and marijuana) is under study
- El Espectador, 05 November 2018Coca farmers in Catatumbo, Colombia are threatened - the coca farmers are requesting the government to extend coverage of the illegal crop substitution program to their community
- Caracol Radio, 04 November 2018Coca leaf farming rises by 5,000 hectares in Peru between 2016 and 2017.
- Peru Reports, 03 November 2018Gulupa, a fruit related to maracuya, is a legal alternative to coca plantations in Colombia
- Fresh Plaza, 02 November 2018The consumption and availability of cocaine in the United States continued to grow between 2016 and 2017, probably as a consequence of the expansion of illicit coca crops and the production of cocaine in Colombia
- El Tiempo, 02 November 2018The Supreme Court of Mexico issues a ruling allowing for the recreational use of marijuana, a decision that will allow the cultivation and consumption of the plant for recreational purposes to any citizen who requests a permit from the federal government
- Pagina Siete, 02 November 2018In a letter to President Iván Duque of Colombia, the Attorney General, Néstor Humberto Martínez, made an unusual proposal to combat drug trafficking and reduce cocaine production - he proposes to take electrical energy away from areas where there are laboratories and production facilities
- Colombia Reports, 02 November 2018273 coca farmers in Colombia sue the government for spraying glyphosate to destroy coca plants used to make cocaine
- UPI, 01 November 2018Drug cartels test Central America for coca farming, with small plantings found in Guatemala and Honduras
- Reuters, 01 November 2018The government of Colombia has 273 lawsuits against it for fumigation of coca plants with glyphosate - the Ministry of Defense has already had to pay 18 billion pesos (about US $6 million) to those affected by fumigations.
- El Tiempo, 01 November 2018Drug traffickers are trying to grow coca leaf in Central America, with trial fields found in Guatemala (1 hectare) and Honduras (5 hectares).
- Reuters, 01 November 2018
- La Silla Vacia, 01 November 2018Glufosinate ammonium (phosphinothricin) is the molecule that could replace glyphosate in aerial spraying in activities of forced eradication of coca in Colombia.
- El Tiempo, 31 October 2018The national government of Colombia announced the policy to comply with the Peace Agreement - among the difficult situations to implement peace is that of the National Comprehensive Program for the Replacement of Illicit Crops (PNIS)
- La Silla Vacia, 29 October 2018Colombia's war crimes tribunal, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP in Spanish), rules that FARC leader "Jesus Santrich" has been falsely charged with drug trafficking with no evidence provided by Colombian prosecutors nor by the U.S. DEA, and until evidence is provided, Santrich should not be extradited to the U.S.
- Colombia Reports, 29 October 2018President Ivan Duque plans to send 5,000 soldiers to the northeast of Colombia, the Catatumbo region that is the country's second most important coca growing region, despite local leaders begging the president not to militarize the region, which has failed in the past to fight crimes
- Colombia Reports, 29 October 2018Did a DEA hoax devastate Colombia's peace process, when the DEA fabricated charges of drug trafficking against a former FARC guerrilla leader, Jesus Santrich, who was then arrested - in part because the DEA opposes efforts to help coca farmers grow alternative crops?
- El Espectador, 27 October 2018Did a DEA hoax devastate Colombia's peace process, when the DEA fabricated charges of drug trafficking against a former FARC guerrilla leader, Jesus Santrich, who was then arrested - in part because the DEA opposes efforts to help coca farmers grow alternative crops?
- Colombia Reports, 27 October 2018Nariño, a department of Colombia, at the crossroads of illicit crops - communities and authorities are discussing what are the sustainable alternatives to coca crops.
- El Espectador, 27 October 2018President Evo Morales criticizes the coca farmers of Los Yungas who want to modify the new Coca Law.
- Los Tiempos, 26 October 2018The "war against drugs" of the United Nations is a failure - the statistics "do not show any reduction in the global cultivation of opium, coca and marijuana between 2009 and 2018".
- El Deber, 24 October 2018Medellín, the second most important city in Colombia, which has become a "safe" site for leaders of the Sinaloa cartel who have problems in Mexico
- El Tiempo, 24 October 2018The Governor of Antioquia, Colombia, spoke of opening a tender to eradicate coca crops - "We will spend some US $1.3 million to rent drones to fumigate".
- El Tiempo, 24 October 2018In California, a judge reduces, by more than $200 million, down to $78 million, a jury verdict linking Bayer's Roundup (glyphosate) weedkiller to cancer but upholds the jury's findings that the company acted with malice
- Wall Street Journal, 23 October 2018Editorial: the unjust detention of Franclin Gutiérrez, the chief leader of the coca leaf producers of the Yungas region of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 22 October 2018"Aerial fumigation doesn't work": the governor of Caquetá province of Colombia, Álvaro Pacheco, insists on using manual eradication and implementing plans for alternative farming for campesinos
- El Tiempo, 21 October 2018The Antioquia province of Colombia has begun to fumigate coca plants with drones in the Bajo Cauca region - its government, Luis Pérez, has contracted with private drone companies to fumigate illegal coca plantings with glyphosate
- El Tiempo, 21 October 2018The Spanish dossier on the Colombian mafia - points out that the Chinese are the new partners of the Gulf Clan and capos of Galicia
- El Tiempo, 21 October 2018In Colombia, Fedepalma and Cenipalma open a new palm research center in the north of the Caribbean province of Magdalena with an investment of 16,000 million pesos (about $US 5.3 million), and will also allocate another 13,000 million pesos for research and operation
- Portafolio, 21 October 2018When a landscape has between 45 and 75% of the cultivation of the palm tree, there are "drastic declines" in species
- El Tiempo, 20 October 2018In Bolivia, between 2015 and 2017, 803 tons of illegal coca leaf seized by the government was converted into organic fertilizer
- Pagina Siete, 19 October 2018Coca crops in Bolivia are being planted near the planned route for a proposed highway through indigenous lands in the TIPNIS national park
- Mongabay, 19 October 2018Colombian coca growers bare their teeth to President Duque - the coca growers went on strike a few days ago to tell the government, among other things, that if they do not allow more families to enter the National Program for the Replacement of Illicit Use Crops (Pnis), they will paralyze the roadways
- La Silla Vacia, 18 October 2018The presence of hantavirus in the La Asunta region of Bolicia, detected during coca eradication efforts, has generated worries among the residents and producers of coca in the region.
- El Diario, 17 October 2018Coffee rust and low prices threatens the Latin American coffee industry, and 150 years ago, coffee rust destroyed the coffee industry of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
- NPR, 16 October 2018In Colombia, a new generation of drug traffickers means more coca farmers are growing coca.
- NPR, 15 October 2018Over 40,000 hectares in Colombia of coca plants were eradicated as of the first week of October 2018.
- El Tiempo, 15 October 201820 coca growers from La Asunta, testify before the Bolivian Public Ministry in favor of the president of the Departmental Association of Producers of Coca (Adepcoca), Franclin Gutiérrez, alleging that he did not carry weapons or organize armed groups to attack policemen in that region
- Pagina Siete, 15 October 2018"Cocalero", an herbal liquor made in Ireland using decocainized coca leaf extracts, prepares to enter the U.S. markets
- Paste, 15 October 2018The former health minister of Colombia, Alejandro Gaviria: "Prohibit no, regulate yes" - for the regulated and recreational use of marijuana; and neither consumers nor coca growers are criminals
- El Espectador, 13 October 2018Opinion: we cannot let e-cigarettes become an on-ramp for teenage addiction to nicotine, which can harm brain development
- Washington Post, 12 October 2018The Lithuanian Parliament approved on Thursday a law that authorizes doctors to prescribe drugs based on marijuana (cannabis). which, to enter into force, still has to be ratified by President Dalia Grybauskaite
- La Razon, 12 October 2018The cocalero leader Franclin Gutiérrez declares himself a political prisoner, after the cessation hearing for his preventive detention was suspended on Thursday morning
- La Razon, 12 October 2018Farmers in Norte de Santander manage to suspend forced eradication of illicit crops, and the governor of the department, William Villamizar, will seek to strengthen the voluntary substitution of crops in several municipalities of that region in Colombia
- El Espectador, 12 October 2018A forensic analysis confirmes that the poisoning of 17 anti-drug soldiers was due infection by the hantavirus, which had been transmitted by drinking water - an alert campaign is activated to prevent local residents from this virus
- Pagina Siete, 10 October 2018Bolivian Government stresses that it is unlikely that the water has been contaminated artificially, so it discarded the initial hypothesis of sabotage of the coca eradication tasks
- El Diario, 10 October 2018The coca eradicator who died in La Asunta, Bolivia, was infected with the hantavirus, a disease that is transmitted by rats
- El Deber, 10 October 2018Bolivian government reports that one dead police office and six others that have been hospitalized were infected with the hantavirus in the La Asunta region
- La Razon, 10 October 2018Between May 2017 and September 2018 in Colombia, 30,265 hectares of coca plants were voluntarily eradicated by coca farmers across the country
- El Tiempo, 09 October 2018In Bolivia, one anti-drug soldier from the Joint Task Force dies while eradicating coca leaves, presumably due to poisoning
- El Deber, 08 October 2018A second anti-drug soldier from the Joint Task Force that carried out coca eradication work in the municipality of La Asunta, in La Paz, died Monday, after suffering from poisoning that had left his health in critical condition
- La Razon, 08 October 2018The Anti-Crime Special Police Force of Fight of La Paz reported today the death of a policeman and of a conscript at the coca eradication camp of the Joint Task Force of La Asunta, municipality of the Yungas
- Pagina Siete, 08 October 2018Jaime Rivera, coca substitution activist, and his sons, are murdered in southwest Colombia, in the village of Bolivar, Cauca (about 80 miles south of Popayán)
- El Espectador, 08 October 2018Where does the dirty money of the coca growing boom go in Colombia? It is flowing into a real estate 'boom' in coca-growing areas, and into bitcoins
- El Tiempo, 07 October 2018Coffee growers call for post-conflict development in rural Colombia
- La Republica, 07 October 2018The minister of Government of Bolivia, Carlos Romero, denounces poisoning of eradicators of illegal coca - members of the Joint Task Force (FTC) were victims of chemical sabotage - they will be transferred to Santa Cruz for medical attention
- La Razon, 07 October 2018Poisoning soldiers in a coca-growing area - a practice used in Colombia that is observed for the first time in Bolivia - according to a Commander, Colonel Jorge Román Castañón, organic chlorides were used
- El Diario, 07 October 2018The Guaviare province of Colombia (southeast of Bogota) is betting on peacetime crops with an investment of over US $7 million, thanks to the support of the European Peace Fund for productive projects of peasant farmers
- El Espectador, 06 October 2018Learn about the types of marijuana most common in Colombia
- El Espectador, 06 October 2018The steady downfall of Colombia's most powerful drug organization, the Urabeños - led by Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel”
- InSight Crime, 05 October 2018The Stepan Company, the only business in the United States that imports coca leaves with the authorization of the DEA
- El Deber, 04 October 2018The DEA in Colombia: Losing the drug war, but having a lot of sex and ‘kompromat’
- Washington Examiner, 03 October 2018Bitcoin is 'googled' more in regions of Colombia where there are more coca crops - the country has the 14th most amount of cryptocurrency on the LocalBitcoins platform
- La Republica, 03 October 2018Indigenous communities in Colombia cannot sell coca leaf products without permission - they can freely distribute coca leaf products only within their territories without registering with Invima (Colombia's version of the FDA)
- El Tiempo, 02 October 2018The national parks of Colombia contain more than 8,000 hectares of coca plants
- El Tiempo, 01 October 2018The Government of Colombia has three different voices for its drug policies that are in dissonance, especially with the problem of the coca crops, because some advocate substitution and others tfumigation with glyphosate
- La Silla Vacia, 01 October 2018The war in Tumaco, Colombia, remains the same, after the operation in which David was killed and the Public Force allegedly wounded Guacho, leader of the Oliver Sinisterra front
- La Silla Vacia, 30 September 2018The national government of Colombia will provide an incentive of up to 25,000 Colombian pesos (US $8.40) for each load of 125 kg of dry parchment coffee
- La Republica, 29 September 2018Some coca growers in Peru achieve an agreement that the price of coca leaf (11.5 kilos) of first quality is now worth 125 soles (US $38, Colombia 112.528 pesos)
- La Republica, 28 September 2018At the inauguration of the XIV Ordinary Congress of the Six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba and upon his return from the United States, President Evo Morales of Bolivia asked the Chapare coca growers to learn to speak English and elaborate economic and social policies to export coca products
- Correo Del Sur, 28 September 2018Editorial: What should we do with coca in Colombia?
- El Espectador, 27 September 2018Opinion: the use of glyphosate for eradication of coca - between foolishness and precaution; there is an urgent need to discuss new alternatives to the coca-growing business
- El Espectador, 26 September 2018Interview with Emilio Archila, head of the High Council for Stabilization - about the future of the national plan to replace illegal crops in Colombia
- El Espectador, 24 September 2018U.S. president Donald Trump: "We want to work with President Duque to eradicate production of coca".
- El Tiempo, 24 September 2018Antioquia, a province in Colombia with an unusal increase in the cultivation of coca - between 2015 and 2017, drug traffickers in Antioquia increased coca cultivation by 477 percent.
- El Tiempo, 23 September 2018En Putumayo they are killing leaders who support the substitution of coca crops in Colombia - so far this year Putumayo has seen the murder of nine social leaders.
- La Silla Vacia, 23 September 2018What can be done to stop the rapid rise of coca cultivations in Colombia?
- El Pais, 22 September 2018The 'Duque plan' that Colombia hopes will reduce illegal coca crops by 70% during his four-year term.
- El Tiempo, 22 September 2018From Nariño, Putumayo and Norte de Santander in Colombia, the leaders of coca leaf farming alternatives ask President Iván Duque not to eradicate coca forcibly and for no reason return to the fumigations with glyphosate
- El Espectador, 22 September 2018In Colombia, coca crops are the last phase of the peasant colonization of the periphery of the country and provide sustenance to some 100,000 families, who can not find land within the country integrated to the legal economy nor find opportunities for employment and social services
- El Espectador, 21 September 2018Alcohol kills three million people a year in the world, according to a World Health Organization report
- El Espectador, 21 September 2018Latin America is the murder capital of the world, much due to the crime from supplying the United States' insatiable demand for cheaper marijuana, and cocaine - one of the world's most profitable drugs only sourced in the coca fields
- Wall Street Journal, 20 September 2018In Catatumbo, coca cultivation increased (a sub-region of Norte de Santander were 16% percent of the coca crop is grown in Colombia), but it was not an excessive increase
- La Silla Vacia, 20 September 2018The challenges that Colombian president Iván Duque has to reduce the record amount of coca being grown in Colombia.
- El Pais, 20 September 2018In the regions of Colombia dedicated to growing coca leaves, 68% of the children are unable to go to schools - with the growth of coca farming, violence has worsened for the rural population
- El Tiempo, 20 September 2018With coca leaf farming up 500% in the last two years, the Lower Cauca region of Colombia aims to be the new Catatumbo (the current leader in coca farming)
- La Silla Vacia, 20 September 2018In Colombia, the illegal farming of coca in 2017, in terms of hectares (171,000 hectares) exceeded that of corn (170,000 hectares), potatoes (139,000 hectares) and beans (70,000 hectares).
- La Republica, 20 September 2018Interview with Bo Mathiasen, the United Nations representative in Colombia - "Coca is being growing in the same places as always"
- El Espectador, 19 September 2018The challenges that Colombian president Iván Duque has to reduce the record amounts of coca being cultivated in Colombia.
- El Pais, 19 September 2018Opinion: coca is not cocaine - the only solution in sight is to legalize coca cultivation and penalize and prosecute its transformation into cocaine, its transportation and distribution
- EL Espectador, 19 September 2018Colombian coffee growers continue producing at a loss, according to the average prices calculated by the National Federation of Coffee Growers (coffee being a suggested alternative to coca)
- La Republica, 19 September 2019A Bolivian court rejects an appeal and orders that coca farmers' leader Franclin Gutiérrez remain in jail pending trial
- La Razon, 18 September 2018The Drug Enforcement Agency: the federal agency that has proved itself incompetent for decades despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars
- New York Times, 17 September 2018The executive secretary of the coca growers of La Asunta (the Yungas of Bolivia), Freddy Quispe, denounced the continuing eradication of coca cultivations in permitted zones by the anti-drug police, and denounced other abuses
- El Diario, 17 September 2018Five tons of coca leaf were found by the Peruvian national police inside of a coca paste processing laboratory, in the community of Pelmaz, district of Puerto Bermudez, province of Oxapampa (Pasco)
- El Comercio, 16 September 2018Editorial: the conflict with coca farmers and the eradication of coca farms in Bolivia - Chapare coca that is "bitter and tough" versus Yungas coca that is "sweet and smooth"
- El Diario, 16 September 2018Opinion: The problems of General Law 906 For Coca in Bolivia, and the conflict with coca farmers
- Pagina Siete, 15 September 2018Colombian Defense Minister, Guillermo Botero, says that there is a doble standard in the country, with people complaining about the use of glyphosate to eradicate coca while the pesticide is heavily used in agriculture
- El Pais, 14 September 2018Colombian president Iván Duque hopes that in the next four years, Colombia can reduce by between 140,000 and 150,000 of the farmed hectares of illegal cultivations of coca
- El Pais, 13 September 2018The coca leaf and cocaine ties that bind Colombia and Venezuela.
- StratFor, 12 September 2018Businessmen in the Valle del Cauca (the province of Cali) are requesting that the Colombian government defend the price of sugar (a drug?) - which has fallen 21% in international markets
- El Pais, 12 September 2018President Trump questions the increase of illegal farming of coca in Colombia, and doesn't decertify the country, but demanded significant results to happen immediately
- El Pais, 12 September 2018President Trump questions the increase of illegal farming of coca in Colombia, and doesn't decertify the country, but demanded significant results to happen immediately
- El Tiempo, 12 September 2018Opinion: glyphosate: from "dangerous" to "healthy" for eradication of illegal cultivation of coca - but, it is still dangerous
- El Tiempo, 12 September 2018Jose Obdulio Gaviria, whose family formed the Medellin drug cartel, now is a senator for Colombia's conservative ruling party, strongly criticizes recreational use of marijuana and he wants to recriminalize all marijuana use
- Colombia Reports, 12 September 2018The cultivation of coca leaf in Polígono 7, within the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis) in Bolivia, will be rationalized, announced yesterday the Deputy Minister of Coca, Eulogio Condori
- El Diario, 12 September 2018Nearly a hundred uniformed police in Bolivia proceeded to unblock the route that connects La Paz with Yungas, in the Unduavi sector - there are at least six people who were arrested for assaulting the troops with stones and blunt objects.
- La Razon, 11 September 2018Nearly a hundred uniformed police in Bolivia proceeded to unblock the route that connects La Paz with Yungas, in the Unduavi sector - there are at least six people who were arrested for assaulting the troops with stones and blunt objects.
- El Deber, 11 September 2018Opinion: the wild and crazy politics of coca in Bolivia.
- Pagina Siete, 11 September 2018Bolivian police reinforced traffic control on the highway between La Paz and the Yungas until 8am Monday morning to prevent a blockade by the coca growers of Adepcoca
- La Razon, 10 September 2018Coca growers from the Yungas begin a blockade of the highway to Unduavi
- Pagina Siete, 10 September 2018After the ratification of the preventive detention of the chief leader of the Departmental Association of Producers of Coca (Adepcoca) La Paz, Franclin Gutiérrez, the coca growers begin the blockade of roads in La Paz province and declare themselves in permanent mobilization
- El Diario, 10 September 2018Editorial: The quixotic crusade against the minimum dose - while in the United States, investors are preparing for a regulated industry of sales of cannabis products that will reach US $35 billion in 2022, in Colombia the Ministry of Justice talks about how dads must account for the addiction of their children that are captured in possession of the minimum dose. Is irrational obscurantism returning to Colombia?
- El Espectador, 09 September 2018Opinion: Colombia should join the United States and Canada in legalizing and regulating and taxing marijuana
- El Espectador, 09 September 2018A criminal court in La Paz affirms the preventative detention of the president of the northern coca growers association (Adepcoca), Franklin Gutiérrez
- La Razon, 09 September 2018A criminal court in La Paz affirms the preventative detention of the president of the northern coca growers association (Adepcoca), Franklin Gutiérrez
- Pagina Siete, 09 September 2018In the four visits that Iván Duque made to Caquetá as a candidate between March 2017 and May, he promised that his first days of government would be done there. But after a month of being president of Colombia has gone, and nothing is scheduled soon for their Workshops for Building the Country.
- La Silla Vacia, 09 September 2018The failures of the post-conflict the Catatumbo pilot program - two years ago the Caño Indio village became the post-conflict laboratory in Catatumbo
- La Silla Vacia, 09 September 2018Colombian president Iván Duqu requests Francisco Santos (the new Colombian ambassador in Washington) to repair relations with the U.S. which have been strained by the increase in illegal coca farming in the country
- El Pais, 07 September 2018Coca farmers in Bolivia from the Yungas will block roadways starting Monday and women will go on hunger strikes
- El Deber, 07 September 2018The Bolivian government denies preferential treatment and reports that in the Chapare region it is eradicating 6 times more coca than in the Yungas
- La Razon, 07 September 2018Coca farmers in Bolivia from the Yungas will block roadways starting Monday and women will go on hunger strikes
- Pagina Siete, 06 September 2018The Bolivian government anticipates that surplus (illegal) coca being grown in La Asunta will be eradicated in one month
- La Razon, 05 September 2018Who is Franclin Gutiérrez and why are people from the Yungas mobilizing for him? The president of Adepcoca is accused of being the intellectual author of events in La Asunta that left one police officer dead
- Pagina Siete, 05 September 2018The Bolivian government anticipates that surplus (illegal) coca being grown in La Asunta will be eradicated in one month
- El Deber, 05 September 2018Video of Colombia Senator and indigenous leader, Feliciano Valencia, speaking in the Legislature in opposition to coca eradication with glyphosate, and in support of legal, beneficial, uses of coca
- Twitter, 04 September 2018The Colombian government has decided to use drones to fumigate illegal plantings of coca
- El Tiempo, 04 September 2018Coca farmers from the Yungas warn of a 90-day blockade of roads in Bolivia if their leader, Franklin Gutiérrez, is not freed
- La Razon, 04 September 2018The judicial system in Bolivia postpones a hearing for Franklin Gutiérrez, so coca growers maintain threats of more protests
- La Razon, 04 September 2018Opinion: the coca growers of Bolivia - the end of a suspicious hegemony of President Evo Morales
- Pagina Siete, 04 September 2018A massive march of coca growers from the Yungas region who traveled 200 kilometers on foot arrived yesterday at the government seat city to demand justice for the death of two coca growers in addition to asking for the release of their leader
- El Diario, 04 September 2018Preharvest use of glyphosate poisons kids’ food, showing up in the food supply at potentially unsafe levels
- Mercola, 04 September 2018The Special Project to Control and Reduce Illegal Cultivations in Alto Huallaha, Peru, reported that from February to today, that it had eradicated 19,193 hectares of illegal coca cultivations and destroyed 52 cocaine processing laboratories.
- El Comercio, 03 September 2018The Colombian Minister of Justice, Gloria María Borrero, confirms that the government is studying the return to coca eradication with glyphosate
- El Tiempo, 03 September 2018"There will be substitution of coca farming in Jamundi or these cultivations will be eradicated" - a warning to coca farmers from the governor of Valle province in Colombia, Dilian Francisco Toro
- El Tiempo, 03 September 2018Coca farmers from La Asunta (Bolivia) request the resignation of President Evo Morales, decide to remain in La Paz to protest, and demand the end of the eradication of illegal coca farming in the region.
- El Deber, 03 September 2018The coca growers of Bolivia, gathered together in the public area in the Plaza de San Francisco, demanded that the government release its leader Franclin Gutiérrez by Wednesday, who is accused of the death of a police officer
- Los Tiempos, 03 September 2018The coca growers of Bolivia, gathered together in the public area in the Plaza de San Francisco, demanded that the government release its leader Franclin Gutiérrez by Wednesday, who is accused of the death of a police officer
- La Razon, 03 September 2018Protest march of coca growers receive less public support in La Paz, and the government minimizes the march's impact
- La Razon, 03 September 2018The areas of influence, including control of coca farming, of illegal armed groups in Colombia.
- Colombia Reports, 03 September 2018Colombia: 'I'm not proud cultivating coca, but we have no choice' - farmers say there are no alternatives to illegal cultivation as armed groups, corruption take hold of their communities [good photos]
- Al Jazeera, 02 September 2018The Bolivian government says a criminal network supports the Adepcoca leader Franklin Gutiérrez, and that foreign nationals could have trained these people and coca growers in the use of firearms
- La Razon, 02 September 2018Bolivian Prime Minister Carlos Romero: there will be no more interventions in Los Yungas but eradication of coca will not be terminated
- Pagina Siete, 02 September 2018Guillermo Botero, the new Colombian Defense Minister, announces plans for the eradication of coca - "En Colombia, coca farming cannot be a way of life"
- El Tiempo, 01 September 2018Demands for justice in Bolivia articulate social discontent, for example, the increased conflicts with coca farmers
- El Diario, 01 September 2018Editorial: The Bolivian government's management of the crisis of the Yungas coca growers
- Pagina Siete, 01 September 2018
- Pagina Siete, 01 September 2018Colombia charges 13 former Chiquita Banana (United Brands) executives over hundreds of murders during the 1997 to 2004 time period, accusing them of using death squads to increase profits by eliminating labor unrest
- Colombia Reports, 01 September 2018How the new president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, inherited an old feud between Colombia’s administrative, bureaucratic elite families -- and regional, landowning cattle ranchers, cane farmers and coffee families -- and the feud's affect on the problem of coca
- World Politics Review, 31 August 2018Colombia's ayahuasca ceremonies in spotlight after tourist's drug death - western backpackers travelling in increasing numbers into the jungle to take traditional drug administered by shamans
- The Guardian, 31 August 2018Precious as silver ($270 pound, versus $5 a pound for coca leaf), vanilla brings cash and crime to Madagascar from the grueling work of peasants
- New York Times, 31 August 2018Cocaleros de Yungas march in La Paz carrying their dead in coffins and receive support from the Public University of El Alto
- La Razon, 31 August 2018The Bolivian Attorney General, Ramiro Guerrero, announced the reinforcement of the commission of prosecutors is investigating what happened in La Asunta, and did not rule out summoning the police commander, General Faustino Mendoza
- La Razon, 31 August 2018Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) protest with coffins the recent deaths of coca growers during protests, marching with the children of the dead coca growers, while the Bolivian government rejects dialog
- Pagina Siete, 31 August 2018Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) protest with coffins the recent deaths of coca growers during protests, while the Bolivian government rejects dialog
- El Diario, 31 August 2018The march of coca growers from the Yungas of La Paz has arrived in the area of Puente Villa, from where voices blame the Evo Morales regime for being responsible for the deaths of coca growers that occurred in the town of La Asunta
- El Diario, 31 August 2018Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) protest with coffins the recent deaths of coca growers during protests, while the Bolivian government rejects dialog
- Los Tiempos, 31 August 2018Coca growers from the southern drug trafficking region of Bolivia say that Franklin Gutiérrez is the "ringleader of drug traffickers and terrorists"
- Los Tiempos, 31 August 2018Opinion: Colombia and cannabis - ideas for Perú - "Colombia already has one of the world's most advanced legal frameworks in this industry"
- El Commercio, 31 August 2018Monsanto-Bayer: eliminating the 'Monsanto' name will not erase its crimes of ecocide, for example, due to its cancer-causing weedkiller, Roundup (glyphosate).
- Common Dreams, 30 August 2018The Bolivian Public Defender, David Tezanos Pinto, requests dialog, offers mediations and proposes that Bolivian suspend their coca eradication efforts in La Asunta
- La Razon, 30 August 2018Bolivian police claim that they acted with 'legitimate defense' en Asunta, while coca growers request support of the Church and human rights organizations, after two coca farmers are killed
- La Razon, 30 August 2018Bolivian coca growers in La Asunta request a human rights commission after the death of two coca farmers
- La Razon, 30 August 2018Why did relations between the northern coca growers (Adepcoca) and the Bolivian government break down?
- Pagina Siete, 30 August 2018Editorial: the coca leaf: for over 50 years, the never-ending problem en Bolivia
- El Diario, 30 August 2018The fight over coca leaf in Bolivia: an attack on eradicators in the region of the Yungas of La Paz is evidence of the growth of coca farming in Bolivia - and were Colombians involved in the ambush?
- El Espectador, 30 August 2018In the Colombian Congress, the Minister of Defense defends the use of glyphosate - "I have not known a better herbicide than glyphosate", says Guillermo Botero
- El Tiempo, 29 August 2018In Bolivia, the price of coca leaf has increased 103% in 10 years, from 32 Bolivianos per kilo in 2007 to 65 Bolivianos (about $9) in 2017
- La Razon, 29 August 2018Franklin Gutiérrez, president of the coca growers usion of northern Bolivia (Adepcoca), in an interview, states that a minister of the Bolivian government tried to buy his loyalty
- Pagina Siete, 29 August 2018Franklin Gutiérrez, president of the coca growers usion of northern Bolivia (Adepcoca) has his efforts to run for president in 2019 blocked by his arrest and jailing
- El Diario, 29 August 2018Close to 300 coca leaf growers from the Yungas of La Paz start a march for "coca and dignity", heading towards Government headquarters in La Paz
- El Diario, 28 August 2018The dead body is found of the 10-year-old son of a leader of the coca growers in La Asunta, Bolivia
- El Deber, 28 August 2018A judge begins preliminary hearings against the director of northern Bolivian coca growers union (Adepcoca) - the police consider Franclin Gutiérrez, the leader of Adepcoca, as the 'intellectual author' of the "ambush" of police in La Asunta
- La Razon, 28 August 2018Coca growers startup a vigil and demand the freedom of their leader, Franclin Gutiérrez
- La Razon, 28 August 2018Bolivian government says that it will continue with the eradication of illegal coca farming, and will not negotiate "with no one" about the antidrug fight
- La Razon, 28 August 2018Listen to Franklin Gutiérrez from jail: "The Bolivian government wants to see me behind bars"
- Pagina Siete, 28 August 2018A judge begins preliminary hearings against the director of northern Bolivian coca growers union (Adepcoca) - the police consider Franclin Gutiérrez, the leader of Adepcoca, as the 'intellectual author' of the "ambush" of police in La Asunta
- Pagina Siete, 28 August 2018A judge begins preliminary hearings against the director of northern Bolivian coca growers union (Adepcoca) - the police consider Franclin Gutiérrez, the leader of Adepcoca, as the 'intellectual author' of the "ambush" of police in La Asunta
- El Deber, 28 August 2018The family of Franklin Gutiérrez says that the Adepcoca runs the risk of danger and they demand his freedom
- La Prensa, 28 August 2018Coca growers startup a vigil and demand the freedom of their leader, Franclin Gutiérrez
- El Deber, 28 August 2018La Asunta concentrates 41% of the coca leaf farming in the Yungas, Bolivia
- El Deber, 28 August 2018The Prime Minister of Bolivia, Carlos Romero, filed a criminal complaint against Franklin Gutiérrez, president of Adepcoca (the coca growers association of northern Bolivia)
- La Razon, 27 August 2018Are Colombians training Bolivian coca farmers in the use of guns?
- El Tiempo, 27 August 2018Cocaleros in three provinces of the Yungas (Bolivia) announced yesterday that they will remain alert in that region and announced more mobilizations in case the government does not meet their demand - the expulsion of the Joint Task Force in charge of the eradication of coca
- Pagina Siete, 27 August 2018Private sector behind many of the mass killings of social leaders in Colombia, who fought for return of lands stolen during the conflicts by groups such as palm oil companies.
- Colombia Reports, 26 August 2018A police lieutenant in Bolivia who was killed during a confrontation with coca growers in La Asunta was from the region, originally from Coripata and a son of a coca grower
- Pagina Siete, 26 August 2018Opinion: the illegal coca mini-republic of the Chapare in Bolivia
- El Diario, 26 August 2018Opinion: "The Barons of Coca" in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 26 August 2018Opinion: TIPNIS, coca and cocaine in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 26 August 2018Interview with León De la Torre, the Europen Union ambassador in Bolivia - "The results of monitoring coca imply that there has been a recession in eradication"
- El Deber, 26 August 2018Interview with Bo Mathiasen, the United Nations representative in Colombia - "Ten municipal regions are full with coca"
- El Tiempo, 26 August 2018In Bolivia, one police officer dies and seven others were injured in La Asunta - the police officers were protecting workers who were eradicating coca leaf bushes when the police were ambushed
- Pagina Siete, 25 August 2018In Bolivia, one police officer dies and seven others were injured in La Asunta - the police officers were protecting workers who were eradicating coca leaf bushes when the police were ambushed
- El Diario, 25 August 2018In Bolivia, one police officer dies and seven others were injured in La Asunta - the police officers were protecting workers who were eradicating coca leaf bushes when the police were ambushed
- La Prensa, 25 August 2018The northern coca growers of Bolivia (Adepcoca) request that anti-drug police be removed from their Yungas region, and sent to Cochabamba and to protected areas
- Los Tiempos, 24 August 2018Fear and alarms generated in La Asunta, in the Yungas region of La Paz, after the deployment of police in this region as security for brigrades of workers eradicating illegal farming of coca leaf
- La Razon, 23 August 2018Coca framing in Bolivia has reached levels seen in 2005, and it is clear that the government has lost control of such farming
- La Prensa, 23 August 2018For Colombia's coffee farmers, some having switched from coca farming, climate change has become an inescapable reality - with more flooding, drought and invasive pests
- Quartz, 22 August 2018The FARC Colombian political party files a proposed law to decriminalize small-scale farming of coca leaf
- El Pais, 22 August 2018A proposed law for special legal treatment of small-scale coca farmers returns to the Colombian Congress
- El Espectador, 22 August 2018In Bolivia in 2017, some 21,000 tons of coca leaf were not sold through the country's legal markets, while 23,000 tons were sold legally
- El Deber, 22 August 2018In Bolivia in 2017, the coca leaf farming rose 6% to 24,500 hectares, with the most growth in the area of the Tropic of Cochabamba
- La Razon, 22 August 2018In Bolivia in 2017, the coca leaf farming rose 6% to 24,500 hectares, with the most growth in the area of the Tropic of Cochabamba
- El Deber, 22 August 2018The Bolivian government argues that the increase in coca leaf farming is "not excessive", but admits that their eradication efforts could be less 'slack'
- La Razon, 22 August 2018UN Office of Drug Control reports that illegal coca farming in 6 protected areas in Bolivia, with the major quantity of illegal coca in the Carrasco, Cotapata y Isiboro Secure national parks
- La Razon, 22 August 2018The Polygon 7 region of TIPNIS national park in Bolivia has 1,100 hectares of illegal coca leaf farming
- La Prensa, 22 August 2018The government of Bolivia will continue the eradication of coca bushes in La Asunta (the Yungas) despite threats from the coca growers in the region
- La Razon, 21 August 2018Rising tensions in La Asunta (the Yungas, Bolivia) - coca farmers announce measures to fight government eradication errorts
- La Razon, 21 August 2018During a forced eradication operation against illegal coca farming in the La Asunta region north of La Paz, two police officers were injured and 11 coca farmers were arrested
- El Diario, 21 August 2018The government of Bolivia will not apply taxes on the coca leaf farming sector, despite the fact that it is a very profitable activity
- El Diario, 21 August 2018Colombia tests using drones to destroy coca plants, using the drones to drop herbicide amid surge in cultivation of illegal crops
- Wall Street Journal, 19 August 2018Canada's AviCanna and Colombia's Grupo Daabon join forces to produce medical marijuana extracts in Colombia, using 40 hectares in Santa Marta (Magdelena department)
- Portafolio, 16 August 2018Glyphosate, chemical used to eradicate coca leaves in Colombia, is found in popular oat meal cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars in the U.S.
- Environmental Working Group, 15 August 2018A federal court in the U.S. orders the U.S. government, in particular the EPA, to ban an insecticide, chlorpyrifos, that can cause brain damage in children - farmers in Colombia use chlorpyrifos
- Chemistry World, 13 August 2018Colombia's renewed war on drugs could get ugly, and solve nothing, with the new Duque government saying it will crop substitution agreements made with 75,000 coca-growing families and send in the military for forcible eradication and aerial fumigation
- Colombia Reports, 13 August 2018Adriana La Rotta: the coca farming regions of Colombia are nine years behind other rural regional development efforts
- El Tiempo, 11 August 2018U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, while touring coca fields in northern Colombia, says that coca farming needs to be eradicated
- Fox News, 10 August 2018Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million to a groundskepper in the first glyphosate-based Roundup cancer lawsuit, glyphosate used in Colombia to eradicate coca leaves
- New York Times, 10 August 2018Bayer still argues that its glyphosate weekkillers 'do not cause cancer', though it is listed as a carcinogen in California, for example
- BBC, 10 August 2018Colombian farmers in Catatumbo seek to plant peace in former coca fields
- America - The Jesuit Review, 07 August 2018A federal judge in Brazil bans the use of glyphosate in the country until the government re-evaluates the toxicology of the chemical
- EcoWatch, 07 August 2018Major coca growing regions in Colombia by hectares, led by Tumaco, in 2016, and that one square kilometer of coca growing has a value of $37 million, second to marijuanas $47 million
- Zero Hedge, 31 July 2018Southern Bolivian coca growers union re-elect Evo Morales as their leader, and endorese his re-election as president of Bolivia in 2019
- La Razon, 27 July 2018Southern Bolivian coca growers union re-elect Evo Morales as their leader, and endorese his re-election as president of Bolivia in 2019
- El Deber, 27 July 2018A HREF="https://nationalpost.com/feature/on-the-trail-of-guacho-the-narco-making-a-killing-from-colombias-peace"> On the trail of 'Gaucho' in the Colombian port of Tumaco in Nariño provice, the ex-FARC drug trafficker making a killing from Colombia's peace process
- National Post, 24 July 2018Facing Supreme Court investigation, ex-president Álvaro Uribe resigns from Senate in Colombia
- New York Times, 24 July 2018The illusion of the technological fix of using drones to eradicate coca in Colombia
- Brookings Institute, 24 July 2018Statistics and maps of coca farming in Colombia
- Colombia Reports, 23 July 2018In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, now you can request home delivery of coca leaves with the business 'Bolivery'
- El Espectador, 23 July 2018Adepcoca, the coca growers association of northern Bolivia, celebrates its 35th anniversary and accuses the government of encouraging the illegal production of coca leaf in the Chapare region and in national parks
- La Razon, 21 July 2018The UN Office of Drug Control is conducting new studies to determine the destination of coca lead produced in Bolivia on the 22,000 hectares of coca farms authorized by law
- La Razon, 20 July 2018Four coca growers blocking the road to Sud Yungas protesting against the eradication of surplus coca in La Asunta and shouting "Bolivia says No", ended up in jails in San Pedro and Calahuma accused of six crimes
- El Deber, 20 July 201810% of the world's production of coca leaf is in Bolivia, with 23,100 hectares grown in 2016
- Cambio, 19 July 201810% of the world's production of coca leaf is in Bolivia, with 23,100 hectares grown in 2016
- El Diario, 19 July 201810% of the world's production of coca leaf is in Bolivia, with 23,100 hectares grown in 2016
- La Razon, 19 July 2018Cocaine production in Bolivia increased en 2016, but at a slower pace, according to the 2018 World Report on Drugs
- La Razon, 19 July 2018United Nations Office of Drug Control publishes its annual World Drug Report, once again not mentioning nicotine or alcohol, the deadliest killing drugs in the world
- United Nations, 18 July 2018The Colombian far-right group, Aguilas Negras, vows to kill all of Colombia's social leaders, including those working in coca communities
- Colombia Reports, 17 July 2018In coca growing regions of Colombia, where FARC rebels once ruled, drug traffickers now fight for control
- Wall Street Journal, 17 July 2018Former U.S. vice president Joe Biden says that the Trump Administration should not punish Colombia for not having much success in reducing the farming of coca
- El Tiempo, 17 July 201867 companies are authorized to grow medicinal marijuana in Colombia
- La Republica, 16 July 2018This will be the shock-and-awe plan of the Government of Colombia to eradicate hectares of illicit coca crops
- El Pais, 15 July 2018The district attorney for La Paz, Edwin Blanco, requests jail for four coca growers detained in the Yungas on Thursday for carrying explosives and obstructing the public
- Pagina Siete, 15 July 2018The district attorney for La Paz, Edwin Blanco, requests jail for four coca growers detained in the Yungas on Thursday for carrying explosives and obstructing the public
- El Diario, 15 July 2018The presence of Bolivian president Evo Morales in the Yungas coca growing region reactivates protests of coca growers
- La Prensa, 14 July 2018Coca growers in La Asunta (Yungas, Bolivia) say that arrests of their colleagues were illegal, but Prime Minister Carlos Romero denies this
- Pagina Siete, 14 July 2018Bolivian president Evo Morales tells the coca growers that he would remove from the Yungas communitites advocates against his re-electiom
- Pagina Siete, 13 July 2018The requirements to start a legal medical marijuana business in Colombia
- Portafolio, 13 July 2018Bolivia's workers union (COB) tells the politically powerful coca growers that a worker should be a second vice president
- Pagina Siete, 11 July 2018Coca flour has more calcium than milk and more protein that quinoa
- El Tiempo (Pe), 09 July 2018Eco-warriors battle farmers over the use of millions of liters of glyphosate in the Argentine countryside.
- Yahoo News, 08 July 2018The economy of the coca leaf in Colombia
- El Tiempo, 08 July 2018The indigneous community of Corinto (Cauca, Colombia) captures two ELN guerillas after an attack with explosives
- El Tiempo, 07 July 2018Nariño (Colombia), governed lately disguised as alternative power, is preparing now, just as 20 years ago my people suffered, to continue to receive the dew of poison (glyphosate) as always under pressure from the United States
- La Silla Vacia, 07 July 2018In Bolivia, coca growers from the Chapare activate a campaign for the re-election of the Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera en the general elections in 2019
- La Razon, 07 July 2018The lands of coca in Caquetá, Colombia: beyond eradication and substitution - the key is to transform
- AlaOrilladelRio, 06 July 2018How Colombia does nothing while its social leaders are being exterminated, many in areas where coca cultivation is popular.
- Colombia Reports, 04 July 2018Seven bodies are found in the coca-growing community of Argelia, Cauca (southwest of Popayan), days after locals were warned about an impending "social cleansing", but the victims do not seem to be from the local community
- Colombia Reports, 03 July 2018What can reduce the cultivation of coca in Colombia? These are the alternatives
- El Pais, 01 July 2018Colombia is forced to resume fumigation due to the 'boom' in coca farming since eradication stopped three years ago
- El Tiempo, 30 June 2018Colombia's latest weapon in the war on drugs? Drones spraying glyphosate over coca farms
- Miami Herald, 28 June 2018Government of Colombia says that dispersion of glyphosate by drones over coca farms will not affect the health of the farmers and their communities
- El Pais, 26 June 2018Government of Colombia has a goal of eradicating 110,000 hectares of coca in 2018
- El Tiempo, 26 June 2018Colombia's president Juan Manuel Santos defends Colombia's cocaine reduction strategy as production soars
- Colombia Reports, 26 June 2018Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, says that Bolivia "faces" the fight against drug trafficking with "dignity and sovereignty"
- Los Tiempos, 26 June 2018Maria Margarita Restrepo, just elected to Colombia's House of Represenatives, accused of benefitting from election campaign support from "Popeye", Pablo Escobar's former hitman
- Colombia Reports, 25 June 2018Colombia: a new president, Ivan Duque, proposing an old (failed) counter-narcotics strategy
- Colombia Reports, 23 June 2018The United States qualifies as "unacceptable" the increase in coca farming in Colombia, with an 11% increase in the number of hectares of coca grown in 2017
- El Pais, 25 June 2018Aerial drones and glyphosate - the response of the Colombian government to the increased farming of coca
- El Tiempo, 25 June 2018The United States qualifies as "unacceptable" the increase in coca farmin g in Colombia
- El Tiempo, 25 June 2018The farming of coca leaf in Colombia rises to 209,000 hectares, according to an annual report of the U.S.
- La Republica, 25 June 2018Colombia’s out-of-control cocaine production "unacceptable": the United States
- Colombia Reports, 25 June 2018Colombia: a new president, Ivan Duque, proposing an old (failed) counter-narcotics strategy.
- Colombia Reports, 23 June 2018Record amount of coca grown, record number of murders: the flipside of "peace" in the Caucas of southern Colombia.
- IRIN News, 20 June 2018The new president of Colombia, Iván Duque, will reactivate the aerial fumigation of illegal coca farming
- El Pais, 20 June 2018
- La Republica, 18 June 2018This will be the action plan of the Government of Colombia to eradicate hectares of illicit crops of coca
- El Pais, 16 June 2018Why do Colombian coca crops continue to grow despite eradication efforts? Reseeding, 'banned' zones for eradication and difficulties with crop substitution explain 'boom' of coca.
- El Tiempo, 15 June 2018The ex-presidents of Portugal, New Zealand, and Poland send a letter to Colombians emphasizing the importance of having the next Colombian president continue that policy of voluntary substitution of illegal coca crops
- El Tiempo, 14 June 2018The fruits and vegetables that farmers will substitute for illegal coca crops in the towns of Valle, Colombia
- El Pais, 14 June 2018In 2017, the illegal farming of coca in Colombia grew at least 23% to 180,000 hectares, according to the government
- El Tiempo, 14 June 2018FARC and the forest - peace is destroying Colombia's jungle, as loggers and miners move into previously inaccessible regions, followed by scientists studying previously inaccessible terrains
- Nature, 12 June 2018How corruption of government officials and law enforcement officers fuels cocaine trafficking in Bolivia
- World Politics Review, 06 June 2018Is Bolivia's coca policy protecting traditions, or creating a narco-state? (both)
- World Politics Review, 05 June 2018In Chulumani (Bolivia), coca farmers violently clash with members of the government ruling party MAS
- El Diario, 05 June 2018How Cuba helped make Venezuela a mafia state that is heavily invovled in cocaine smuggling, both countries betraying the coca leaf.
- Daily Beast, 04 June 2018The coca growing dispute in the Yungas (Bolivia) forces government ruling party (MAS) to not register members to run in local elections.
- Pagina Siete, 02 June 2018How the coca crop could strengthen Colombia.
- Talking Drugs, 01 June 2018Regulation of pesticides such as glyphosate (used to eradicate coca) needs to include societal assessment
- Science, 01 June 2018Peru football captain Paolo Guerrero cleared to play at the World Cup after a Swiss court ruling saying that his drinking coca tea was accidental
- Reuters, 31 May 2018UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean (ECLAC) calls for legalizing drugs in Latin America to reduce the human cost of prohibition
- TeleSurTV, 29 May 2018Coca growers of Adepcoca affirm that Bolivian police use marbles to break up social protests, and they request the renunciation of Prime Minister Carlos Romero
- La Razon, 29 May 2018Coca growers of Adepcoca affirm that Bolivian police use marbles to break up social protests, and they request the renunciation of Prime Minister Carlos Romero
- El Deber, 29 May 2018Bolivia's Legislature will question Prime Minister Romero about the presence of police officersin the facilities of Adepcoca
- Pagina Siete, 28 May 2018Former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe is allegedly linked, once again, to the 1990s drug families of Medellín.
- New York Times, 26 May 2018Former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe is allegedly linked, once again, to the 1990s drug families of Medellín.
- Colombia Reports, 26 May 2018Colombia's coca growing regions, overlaid with regions controlled by FARC dissidents, the ELN and criminal mafias
- Economist, 26 May 2018Ivan Duque, presidential candidate in Colombia backed by former president Álvaro Uribe - is receiving a lot of support from Colombia's criminal political clans?
- Colombia Reports, 25 May 2018The Open Source Foundation has a symposium on coca industrialization in New York City, though no one involved with coca industrialization is invited to speak
- Open Society, 22 May 2018Franklin Gutiérrez, Adepcoca's president to be president of Bolivia, promises to eradicate surplus coca from the Chapare
- El Diario, 19 May 2018For the second time, the government of Colombia will not reach its goal o f substitution for coca farming
- El Tiempo, 18 May 2018The U.S. spent billions fighting coca in Colombia in the last 20 years, but the amount of coca grown has not changed in these last 20 years
- Miami Herald, 10 May 2018In Colombia, for the business Coca Nasa - when the coca leaf is an option for entrepreneurship
- Pacifista, 09 May 2018Colombia's peace deal with the FARC is causing more burning of the Amazon for coca and marijuana, burnings formerly discouraged by FARC enforcing strict green rules
- New Scientist, 08 May 2018Adepcoca (the association of northern Bolivia coca growers) will have its own candidate in the 2019 presidential elections, their leader, Franklin Gutiérrez
- El Diario, 08 May 2018The Bolivian minister of Rural Development, César Cocarico, says that the presidential candidacy of Adepcoca president César Cocarico confirms the political nature of Adepcoca
- La Razon, 07 May 2018The southern Bolivia coca growers of the Chapare (Cochabamba) activate a team of cybernauts to defend the government
- La Razon, 07 May 2018Adepcoca decides to create its own political party and confirms the presidential candidacy of its leader, Franklin Gutiérrez
- El Deber, 07 May 2018Adepcoca decides to create its own political party and confirms the presidential candidacy of its leader, Franklin Gutiérrez
- La Prensa, 07 May 2018Adepcoca decides to create its own political party and confirms the presidential candidacy of its leader, Franklin Gutiérrez
- Los Tiempos, 07 May 2018The benefits of consuming coca flour
- EcoPortal.net, 07 May 2018Peace efforts in Colombia have ended 50 years of intense conflict - now, scientists are studying former fighters and victims as they attempt to heal
- Nature, 03 May 2018Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Pedro wants Colombia to withdraw from the US war on drugs, saying the policies are ineffective
- Colombia Reports, 02 May 2018Fishing is how some coca growers fight against illicit crops in Tumaco, Colombia
- El Pais, 02 May 2018Colombia misses coca crop substitution target by 40% (20,000 hectares).
- Colombia Reports, 01 May 2018VRAEM: Peruvian national police seize more than 1.5 tons of illegal coca leaf - what was seized was transferred to ENACO storage facilities
- Andina (Peru), 25 April 2018In Colombia, the story not told: when coca farming brought education and health to the Putamayo communities
- Pacifista, 24 April 2018A confrontation in Chulumani, Bolivia, between coca growers affliated with Adepcoca and a faction that supports the mayor, Vladimir Vega, of the government ruling party MAS - leaves two injured and serious damage to property
- La Prensa, 21 April 2018A confrontation in Chulumani, Bolivia, between coca growers affliated with Adepcoca and a faction that supports the mayor, Vladimir Vega, of the government ruling party MAS - leaves two injured and serious damage to property
- El Diario, 21 April 2018Coca farmers from La Asunta reject an agreement with the Bolivian government, and restart protest in the Yungas.
- La Prensa, 20 April 2018EMG Colombian government gives $22 million to families in Tumaco to substitute other crops for illegal coca farming
- El Tiempo, 20 April 2018Coca farmers from La Asunta, and the government of Bolivia, sign an agreement declaring a pause in coca eradication efforts (includes photo of agreement)
- La Razon, 19 April 2018Coca farmers from La Asunta, and the government of Bolivia, sign an agreement declaring a pause in coca eradication efforts
- El Diario, 19 April 2018Coca farmers from La Asunta, and the government of Bolivia, sign an agreement declaring a pause in coca eradication efforts
- La Prensa, 19 April 2018The criminal logic of the coca market in Colombia
- Proclama (Co), 19 April 2018Coca fumigation using drones in Colombia, a new weapon against illegal coca farms
- El Tiempo, 18 April 2018Opinion: Bolivian government using DEA tactics against illegal coca farmers in the Chapare but now against the mostly legal coca farmers in the Yungas
- El Diario, 18 April 2018Bolivian police apprehend eight coca farmers from La Asunta (Yungas) that were carrying explosives
- La Razon, 18 April 2018Bolivian government orders pretentive detention for five coca farmers that were carrying explosives
- La Razon, 18 April 2018José Jaír Cortés is the first community leader assasinated for supporting the substitution of illegal coca crops in Tumaco, Colombia
- El Tiempo, 18 April 2018Honduras finds another coca farm in organized crime stronghold.
- InSight Crime, 17 April 2018Rebel groups fighting over coca-growing region in northern Colombia, the Norte de Santander province.
- BBC, 17 April 2018Opinion: Colombia's FARC caught with their hands in coca - still acting as drug gangs
- El Diario, 17 April 2018Editorial: the coca farmer's rebellion in the Yungas of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 16 April 2018Bolivia's Drug control vice minister, Felipe Cáceres, denounced coca farmers in La Asunta for installing explosive devices on the sides of roads to block anti-drug police from their eradication efforts
- La Prensa, 15 April 2018In Bolivia, UNODC says there is illegal coca in La Asunta and in the Chapare
- La Razon, 12 April 20184 coca farmers from La Asunta (Bolivia) will be jailed, and two give house arrest, after protests
- La Razon, 12 April 20184 coca farmers from La Asunta (Bolivia) will be jailed, and two give house arrest, after protests
- Pagina Siete, 12 April 2018Government of Bolivia links the leader of Adepcoca, Franklin Gutiérrez, with armed groups that resist the eradication of surplus and illegal coca crops
- La Razon, 11 April 2018In Bolivia, the Deputy Minister of Coca, Froilán Luna, announced that the coca growing communities of the Yungas that rebelled against the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS - the ruling government party) will be punished and will not be granted projects
- Erbol Digital, 10 April 2018In Tumaco, Colombia, 20 percent of illegal coca farming has switched to alternative crops
- El Tiempo, 09 April 2018Opinion: The substitution of illegal crops does not fail nor stop in Colombia - Eduardo Diaz Uribe
- El Tiempo, 06 April 2018Bolivian government files lawsuit against leaders of the Yungas coca farmers for blocking eradication and accuses Franklin Gutiérrez of links with the 'right'
- La Razon, 06 April 2018The Prime Minister of Bolivia, Carlos Romero, dedicated a press conference to the coca conflict in the Yungas, and sustained that Franclin Gutiérrez (director of Adepcoca) has links and "friends" among the far right, and that he is linked to the U.S. Embassy
- Erbol Digital, 05 April 2018VRAEM: Peruvian national police seize more than 3 tons of illegal coca leaf - what was seized was transferred to ENACO storage facilities.
- La Republica, 04 April 2018Bolivian government reveals that in La Asunta there are 1,500 hectares of illegal coca farming, and it denounces efforts to avoid eradication
- La Razon, 04 April 2018Coca farmers from Chulumani, Irupana, Coripata and the Asunta burned flags of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), in rejection of the physical presence of this government party in the Yungas of La Paz (Bolivia)
- ErBol Digital, 02 April 2018Coca farmers from Chulumani, Irupana, Coripata and the Asunta burned flags of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), in rejection of the physical presence of this government party in the Yungas of La Paz (Bolivia)
- Pagina Siete, 02 April 2018Over the last ten years, doctors, human rights activists and coca farmers are the only social organizations that have resisted the Bolivian government.
- La Prensa, 02 April 2018Producers of traditional coca from the Yungas meet in regional assemblies to determine measures that allow for the annulment of the new General Coca-Cola Law 906 and the removal of coca producers affiliated with the MAS (the government ruling party)
- Los Tiempos, 31 March 2018An open meeting of producers affiliated with the Chamaca Regional Adepcoca in the municipality of Chulumani (Bolivia), determined that no community should allow the installation of MAS campaign offices (MAS is the government ruling party)
- Erbol Digital, 31 March 2018An open meeting of producers affiliated with the Chamaca Regional Adepcoca in the municipality of Chulumani (Bolivia), determined that no community should allow the installation of MAS campaign offices (MAS is the government ruling party)
- Pagina Siete, 31 March 2018VRAEN: Peruvian national police seize more than 4 tons of illegal coca leaf - what was seized was transferred to ENACO storage facilities
- El Comercio, 30 March 2018Letter to Editor: the Colombian authorities face an extraordinarily complex task in trying to run forced and voluntary coca-eradication and crop-substitution programmes in parallel
- Economist, 28 March 2018Coca farmers in La Paz retake the headquarters of Adepcoca after 6 days of conflict
- La Prensa, 25 March 2018Coca farmers in La Paz retake the headquarters of Adepcoca after 6 days of conflict
- El Deber, 25 March 2018Founders of Adepcoca, allied with the Bolivian government, deliver the offices to the new director, Franklin Gutiérrez, who had been ratified 3 times by members
- El Diario, 25 March 2018Founders of Adepcoca, allied with the Bolivian government, deliver the offices to the new director, Franklin Gutiérrez, who had been ratified 3 times by members
- Pagina Siete, 25 March 2018Court in La Paz orders release of 8 coca farmers, while during a town hall meeting, coca growers ratified Franklin Gutiérrez as the leader of Adepcoca, the coca growers association for northern Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 24 March 2018
- Pagina Siete, 24 March 2018Police in La Paz use rubber bullets against coca farmers - at least farmers are injured
- Pagina Siete, 23 March 2018Two dozen detainees and several wounded were counted in La Paz, as the conflict continues to deepen with parallel leaderships and cross-accusations that keep the Yungas coca growers in uncertainty
- Erbol Digital, 23 March 2018For the fourth consecutive day, the police forces in La Paz attacked yesterday against the cocaleros of the Yungas, with extreme violence and use of chemical agents
- El Diario, 23 March 2018Two dozen detainees and five wounded were counted in La Paz, as the conflict continues to deepen with parallel leaderships and cross-accusations that keep the Yungas coca growers in uncertainty
- El Diario, 23 March 2018Tensions persist at the headquarters of Adepcoca, and there is risk of more confrontations
- La Razon, 23 March 2018Power struggle for leadership of Adepcoca continues, with government endorsing a new board of directors against desires of Adepcoca members
- La Razon, 23 March 2018Ad hoc committee backed by the government takes control of the board of directors of Adepcoca, to be headed by Honorato Atto, one of the "founders" of the association
- La Razon, 23 March 2018Franklin Gutiérrez, president of Adepcoca: "The Bolivian government wants Adepcoca to camouflage its illegal market for coca leaf"
- Pagina Siete, 21 March 2018Franklin Gutiérrez, president of Adepcoca: "The Bolivian government wants Adepcoca to camouflage its illegal market for coca leaf"
- El Diario, 21 March 2018Adepcoca, the coca leaf growers association of northern Bolivia, is determined to remain on vigil in La Paz, after a violent day of protests and police repression that left 15 wounded and two people arrested
- La Prensa, 20 March 2018In La Paz, Bolivia, clashes leave one coca farmer arrested and two police injured as police disperse organized group of coca leaf growers who tried to retake offices of their coca association, Adepcoca
- La Razon, 19 March 2018In La Paz, Bolivia, police disperse organized group of coca leaf growers who tried to retake offices of their coca association, Adepcoca
- La Razon, 19 March 2018Coca farmers of The Yungas (norther region of Bolivia) elect Franklin Gutiérrez as president of thee coca grower's association, Adepcoca, and burn the honorary credentials of President Morales and Vice President García
- Los Tiempos, 17 March 2018Coca farmers of The Yungas (norther region of Bolivia) elect Franklin Gutiérrez as president of thee coca grower's association, Adepcoca
- ErBol Digital, 16 March 2018Coca farmers of The Yungas (norther region of Bolivia) elect Franklin Gutiérrez as president of thee coca grower's association, Adepcoca
- La Razon, 16 March 2018With 'The Invisibles', post-conflict Colombia has a new generation of cocaine traffickers who prefer anonymity to violence
- InSight Crime, 25 March 2018Yungas-region coca growers in Bolivia remain on alert for the 'seizure' of their Adepcoca facilities by a group affiliated with the Government
- El Deber, 13 March 2018Yungas-region coca growers in Bolivia remain on alert for the 'seizure' of their Adepcoca facilities by a group affiliated with the Government
- El Diario, 13 March 2018Yungas-region coca growers in Bolivia remain on alert for the 'seizure' of their Adepcoca facilities by a group affiliated with the Government
- La Prensa, 13 March 2018The curse of Corinto (Cauca, Colombia) - with its privileged geographic location that is perfect for groups that traffic in drugs
- El Tiempo, 12 March 2018Editorial: is former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana correct - that the coca growers of Chapare formed a political party that now dominates Bolivia, based on the profits of drug trafficking?
- Pagina Siete, 12 March 2018The ex-president of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana (1998-2002): "The coca that arrived from Bolivia caused violence in Colombia", and assures that Chapare coca supplied the Colombian cartels
- El Deber, 10 March 2018The state of Guaviare, Colombia, has substituted 100% of its coca crop
- Asuntos Legals (Co), 09 March 2018The most recent report of the UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses concern about how Bolivia's new coca law almost doubles the amount of legal coca growing
- Pagina Siete, 05 March 2018The Bolivian prime miminster, Carlos Romero, indiates that there is an error in the report of the UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board
- La Prensa, 05 March 2018The deputy minister of Social Defense of Bolivia, Felipe Cáceres, assures that the legal demand for coca leaf for traditional consumption rose from 14,700 to 17,100 hectares between 2014 and 2017
- La Razon, 03 March 2018The UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses worries about the increase in legal coca farming in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 02 March 2018The UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses worries about the increase in legal coca farming in Bolivia
- La Razon, 02 March 2018The UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses worries about the increase in legal coca farming in Bolivia
- El Diario, 02 March 2018The UNODC's International Narcotics Control Board expresses worries about the increase in legal coca farming in Bolivia
- El Deber, 02 March 2018Leaders of Adepcoca (northern producers of coca) go into hiding due to suspected political persecution by the government of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 01 March 2018Leaders of Adepcoca (northern producers of coca) go into hiding due to suspected political persecution by the government of Bolivia
- El Deber, 01 March 2018Coca farmers from The Yungas (Bolivia) suspend their protests and prepare a list of 13 demands
- El Deber, 25 February 2018Two anti-drug strategies are at war in Colombia - crop substitution versus eradication.
- Economist, 24 February 2018Confrontations between coca leaf producers in the Yungas, and police trying to end their blockade of roadways, leaves various injured on both sides
- El Diario, 22 February 2018A HREF="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-landrights-coca/indigenous-villagers-in-peru-losing-patience-with-coca-land-seizures-idUSKCN1G51I0"> Indigenous villagers in Peru are losing patience with coca land siezures.
- Reuters, 21 February 2018Coca growers from the Yungas burn an image of Bolivian President Morales
- El Diario, 20 February 2018Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, and taking control of their coca growers' association, Adepcoca
- El Diario, 20 February 2018César Cocarico, minister of Rural Development in Bolivia, accuses the coca growers' association of the Yungas, Adepcoca, of selling coca leaf illegally
- El Diario, 20 February 2018Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, by paralyzing sales of coca, and are deciding to block the roadways in the Yungas
- La Prensa, 19 February 2018Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, as the commercial buyers stop buying coca leaf until they learn if a 3 boliviano tax goes to the farmers or their leaders, and are deciding to block the roadways in the Yungas
- Pagina Siete, 19 February 2018Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, by not delivering transport maps, and are deciding to block the roadways in the Yungas
- Pagina Siete, 19 February 2018Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) accuse the government of "suffocating" their businesses, by paralyzing sales of coca, and are deciding to block the roadways in the Yungas
- El Deber, 19 February 2018The Europen Union observes increased coca farming in Bolivia, due to "climate situations"
- El Deber, 18 February 2018The post-conflict peace in Catatumbo is one step away from failure for Colombia - the substitution of coca crops has not taken off, investments have fallen short and some demobilized guerillas are creating dissident groups to maintain control of drug trafficking routes on the border
- La Silla Vacia, 11 February 2017Colombia's health minister wanted to make it easier to produce a generic option for hepatitis C treatment, so Big Pharma and Uncle Sam threatened the country’s peace process.
- Other98, 06 February 2018Bolivian president Evo Morales convenes the Chapare coca farmers to enlist them in a "digital war" on the social networks, to aid his controversial efforts to run again to remain president
- La Prensa, 05 February 2018Mario Vargas Llosa: the perception of drugs
- La Republica, 04 February 2018The strategic instutitional plan for the National Coca Business (ENACO) of Peru: 2017-2021
- ENACO, 02 February 2018Alerts given for the presence of Mexican drug cartels in 10 zones of Colombia, who are now acquiring coca plantations
- El Tiempo, 27 January 2018Difficulties that the UN is having to use satellites to identify coca leaf farms in Bolivia.
- El Diario, 21 January 2018Constitutional Court of Colombia backs land fumigation and eradication of illegal coca farms
- El Pais, 19 January 2018Activities for the eradication of illegal coca begin in Bolivia.
- Prensa Latina, 19 January 2018The government of Bolivia start eradication of illegal coca farming with a goal of eliminating 7,000 hectares.
- La Razon, 18 January 2018The plant used to make cocaine could become the next superfood, if Colomb ian farmers have anything to do about it.
- iNews, 14 January 2018Bolivia welcomes Dakar Rally drivers with wreaths of coca leaves.
- Reuters, 11 January 2018Police on one of the Hawaiian islands, Kauai, seize 15 cocaine plants being grown in Kalalau Valley
- The Garden Island, 07 December 2017Is coca leaf tea the next big beverage trend?
- Boss Magazine, 01 December 2017Coca and agriculture in post-peace accord Colombia (Part I).
- NACLA, 29 November 201710 key people for the post-conflict process in the Santander regions og Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 29 November 2017In Bolivia, banana and pineapple production grows as an alternative to coca farming, but farmers lack markets to sell their crops
- Fresh Plaza, 27 November 2017Evo Morales tells American actor Morgan Freeman about the benefits of the coca leaf
- Pagina Siete, 23 November 2017Evo Morales tells American actor Morgan Freeman about the benefits of the coca leaf
- La Razon, 23 November 2017From Putumayo, the coca farmers requrest more management of the post-conflict activities in Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 22 November 2017From coca to cacao: Colombia pushes farmers to exit cocaine trade.
- CGTN America, 18 November 2017Editorial: the production of coca leaf continues causes public complications in Bolivia
- El Diario, 17 November 2017Coca farmers from the Chapare (Bolivia) willing to debate about the diversion of coca leaves to drug traffickers
- Los Tiempos, 14 November 2017Adecopa (coca growers association for northern Bolivia) calls 'absurd' the country's Supreme Court decision to allow legal coca growing in the south, and Adecopa plans to file a lawsuit at the International Court of Human Rights
- La Razon, 12 November 2017Adecopa (coca growers association for northern Bolivia) calls 'absurd' the country's Supreme Court decision to allow legal coca growing in the south, and Adecopa plans to file a lawsuit at the International Court of Human Rights
- El Diario, 12 November 2017Colombia: is cocoa the new cocaine, as government invests $6 million to improve living conditions of cacao farmers?
- QCostaRica, 11 November 2017Adecopa (coca growers association for northern Bolivia) calls 'absurd' the country's Supreme Court decision to allow legal coca growing in the south, and Adecopa plans to file a lawsuit at the International Court of Human Rights
- Erbol Digital, 11 November 2017Problems of coca and cocaine should be a topic in Colombian political campaigns.
- El Tiempo, 11 November 2017The Bolivian Supreme Court declares constitutional new laws that legal coca farming in the Chapare
- La Razon, 11 November 2017The Bolivian Supreme Court declares constitutional new laws that legal coca farming in the Chapare
- Los Tiempos, 11 November 2017The Bolivian Supreme Court declares constitutional new laws that legal coca farming in the Chapare
- El Diario, 11 November 2017The Supreme Court of Bolivia rules against Yungas coca farmers, and legalizes coca farming in the Chapare
- Pagina Siete, 11 November 2017The agony of the peasant coca farmer in Colombia
- Radio Macondo, 10 November 2017Black leaders who urged farmers to dump coca on run from Colombia gangs.
- Digital Journal, 06 November 2017The price of cocaine paste (from the Vraem region of Peru) drops in price from $1300/kilo to $800/kilo
- EL Deber, 05 November 2017Bolivian government estimates that 3000 hectares of coca leaf grown in Bolivia is sold to drug traffickers, with 24,000 tons sold for legal purposes
- La Prensa, 04 November 2017Bolivian government estimates that 6000 tons of coca leaf grown in Bolivia is sold to drug traffickers, with 24,000 tons sold for legal purposes
- La Razon, 03 November 2017Peru has already eradicated more coca (> 20,000 hectares) this year than Colombia in 2016 (18,000).
- Peru Reports, 03 November 2017Colombia signs $300 million United Nations deal to fight cocaine production by bribing farmers to switch from coca (for which they earn $300/month per hectare) to cacao and coca.
- BBC News, 04 November 2017Eight days of peaceful protests by coca growers in Catatumbo (Colombia) become more violent, with attacks against three tanker-trucks.
- El Tiempo, 02 November 2017Colombia's land battles shatter the peace in Cauca Valley, including battles over coca leaf farming [with photos].
- The Guardian, 01 November 2017Froilán Luna Meneces is sworn in as new Vice Minister of Coca
- Erbol Digital, 01 November 2017Froilán Luna Meneces is new vice minister of coca, and Minister Cocarico denies a rupture with Adepcoca
- La Razon, 01 November 2017Conflicts over new coca laws provokes another coca vice minister to resign
- Los Tiempos, 01 November 2018The vice ministry of coca leaf, Wilfredo Llojlla, resigns and warns of more violence to come in La Asunta
- El Deber, 31 October 2017The vice ministry of coca leaf, Wilfredo Llojlla, resigns and warns of more violence to come in La Asunta
- La Razon, 31 October 2017Ten points that explain the complications of substitution of other crops for the farming of coca leaf - the goal of substituting 50,000 hectares appears impossible to achieve, the conclusion of a report published by the Foundations for Ideas for Peace
- La Silla Vacia, 30 October 2017Why is the Pacific region of Colombia turning into an ocean of coca
- El Pais, 29 October 2017In Colombia, the controversy over the route to get peasants out of the coca trap
- El Tiempo, 29 October 2017Efforts to substitute other crops for coca leaves in Putumayo (Colombia) results in more people opposed to government eradication efforts
- La Silla Vacia, 28 October 2017The owners of coca lands in Colombia: many are rich and unthreatened
- La Republica, 28 October 2017Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos defends proposed law that decriminalizes small harvests of coca leaf (less than 3.8 hectares), after criticisms from his Attorney General
- El Pais, 27 October 2017Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure.
- Miami Herald, 27 October 2017Evo Morales, from defender of coca farmers to president of Bolivia (photos)
- RT News, 27 October 2017Colombian president Juan Manual Santos defends proposed law to eliminate jail time for those who grow less than 3.8 hectares of coca leaf, or less than 84 square meters of marijuana, or less than 3.840 hectares of poppy plant.
- El Tiempo, 26 October 2017Colombia proposes to eliminate jail time for those who grow less than 3.8 hectares of coca leaf, or less than 84 square meters of marijuana, or less than 3.840 hectares of poppy plant
- El Tiempo, 26 October 2017Confrontation between ESMAD (anti-drug police) and peasant coca farmers in Norte de Santander (Colombia)
- RCN Noticias, 25 October 2017Government of Bolivia fixes the limit of coca farming at 20,000 hectares, 2,000 less than allowed by the new law
- La Razon, 25 October 2017Wilfredo Llojila, the Bolivian government negotiator with coca growers in the Yungas for crop erradication efforts, himself has extensive family holdings of coca farms.
- El Deber, 25 October 2017Over 100,000 coca farmers, indigenous farmers and Afro-Colombian farmers from in southern Colombia to start indefinite protests demanding more support for the government to switch from coca growing.
- El Tiempo, 25 October 2017Growing rejection in Colombia over DEA report critical of Colombian efforts to reduce coca growth
- El Pais, 25 October 2017Coca farmers across Colombia hold protests, aggravated by tensions between coca farmers, Afro-Colombians and indigenous groups.
- El Tiempo, 24 October 2017The coca farming bonanza that has been registered in Colombia and the increase in the consumption of cocaine in the United States will continue to rise until at least 2018, the DEA said Monday when delivering its report for the year 2017
- El Tiempo, 24 October 2017Consumption of cocaine in the U.S. has risen in the last ten years due to overproduction in Colombia, supplying 90% of the cocaine in the U.S.
- El Pais, 23 October 2017Hundreds of hectares of coca leaf, the motor of violence in the rural zone of Jamundí in Colombia (24 kilometers south of Cali)
- El Pais, 23 October 2017U.S. DEA says that Colombia will not achieve its coca erradication goal this year
- El Tiempo, 23 October 2017Colombia's prosecutor general proposes aerial fumigation of coca bushes.
- Colombia Reports, 23 October 2017Colombia coca cultivation likely to increase in 2017 according to U.S. DEA
- Colombia Reports, 23 October 201714 coca leaf growers violently detained in La Florida (La Paz department, Bolivia) after fighting with anti-drug police there to eradicate their coca plantings.
- Pagina Siete, 22 October 2017Colombian Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez warns that the country is failing to erradicate 100,000 hectares of coca bushes, a victory for drug traffickers.
- El Tiempo, 22 October 2017Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos to send up to 9000 police to the municipality of Tumaco, which has been much crime recently, including the murder of 7 coca growers
- El Pais, 21 October 2017The conflict in Tumaco (Colombia) over illegal farming of coca leaf could occur in 10 other municipalities of Colombia
- El Pais, 18 October 2017More cacao, less coca, farming in Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 15 October 2017And if Colombia's problem isn't coca? - cultivation of coca leaf is a problem for the anti-drug politics of the United States, not for Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 13 October 2017Stopping the criminalization of the peasant coca farmer in Colombia
- EL Espectador, 13 October 2017Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has ordered 102 police to be transferred over last week’s massacre of protesting coca growers, when 10 protesters were killed when police fired on coca farmers who formed a human chain to block a government eradication sweep against their crops.
- Morning Star, 12 October 2017What went wrong in Colombia's new drug policy - they didn't do enough to help coca farmers profitably grow other plants.
- Colombia Reports, 11 October 2017Tumaco (in the Nariño department of Colombia) is the municipality with the most hectares of coca leaf farming in the country
- El Pais, 09 October 2017Colombian police have killed nine coca leaf-growers protesting against an eradication sweep, farmers said on Thursday, and another 18 were injured
- Morning Star, 07 October 2017Bolivian ministry of rural development announces that the biometric permit will be granted by the government only to coca leaf distributors, not the producers
- Pagina Siete, 05 October 2017The government of Bolivia suspects that Adepcoca is not showing its registry of affliated coca leaf merchants because of irregularities
- Pagina Siete, 04 October 2017Adepcoca (association of northern coca growers) announces mobilization of 18,500 coca growers to reject the new coca leaf law in Bolivia
- La Razon, 03 October 2017Adepcoca (association of northern coca growers) announces mobilization of 18,500 coca growers, for October 10th, to reject the new coca leaf law in Bolivia
- La Prenza, 03 October 2017Curbing Colombia coca and cannabis production is doomed to failure, say farmers.
- The Times, 25 September 2017The Thê Wala and the coca leaf - the voice of the Nasa people resounds from the Colombian Amazon
- El Espectador, 21 September 2017Peruvian police seize 560 kilograms of coca leaves in the Huanuco region.
- Peru Reoprt, 21 September 2017The government of Bolivia decides to reduce 50 percent its dedicated efforts to eradicate illegal coca growing in the country
- El Deber, 19 September 2017Surge of coca growing in Colombia and decertification threat tops Santos-Trump agenda
- The City Paper Bogota, 18 September 2017The World Health Organization will assemble a group of specialists to study the science qualities of the coca leaf
- Pagina Siete, 18 September 2017The World Health Organization will assemble a group of specialists to study the science qualities of the coca leaf
- La Razon, 18 September 2017Bolivia will finance a candy and coca tea manufacturing plant in Venezuela
- Entorno Intelligente, 18 September 2017Bolivia will finance a candy and coca tea manufacturing plant in Venezuela
- La Patilla, 17 September 2017The government of Bolivia declares the Tipnis national park free of illegal coca growning, after eradicating 181 hectares
- EL Deber, 18 September 2017Why can't Colombia successfully halt the expansion of coca farming?
- El Pais, 17 September 2017Coca farmers in the Catatumbo region (Colombia) protest against the eradication of coca plants
- El Tiempo, 16 September 2017Buying the coca leaf harvest is cheaper than fumingation
- RCN Radio, 15 September 2017How the coca growers of the Chapare region are using their huge profits to expand into legal businesses, undercutting prices of companies that can't rely on drug trafficking profits.
- El Diario, 15 September 2017Coca growers of Inquisivi (Bolivia) threaten to resist eradication efforts
- La Razon, 14 September 2017Trump warns Colombia that it could be de-certified because of the increase in coca farming
- Pagina Siete, 14 September 2017Although Colombia continues to have broad support in Washington, the growth of illicit coca crops in the country and the effects that this is already having on the streets of the United States is becoming a serious and irritating problem for bilateral relations
- El Tiempo, 14 September 20171 dead, 2 injured in clashes between coca growers and Colombia military in Morales, Cauca (15 miles north of Popayan).
- Colombia Reports, 11 September 2017Coca growers of Munaypata (Inquisivi province, Bolivia) give weapons to their children to help fight eradication efforts
- La Prensa, 09 September 2017Coca growers of Munaypata (Inquisivi province, Bolivia) give weapons to their children to help fight eradication efforts
- Erbol Digital, 09 September 2017New rules (with 89 sections) limit the production of coca leaf in the Yungas (Bolivia).
- El Diario, 09 September 2017Coca growers of Inquisivi (Bolivia) warn of resistance to government efforts to eradicate their coca plants
- La Razon, 08 September 2017President Evo Morales admits that some will try to entry the Tipnis National Park (where new roads are being built) to plant coca
- El Deber, 03 September 2017Bolivia is the strategic point for drug traffickers for the South American coca region, a regional corridor of international scope
- Pagina Siete, 03 September 2017The coca growers of Achacachi (Bolivia) want their coca farming to be made legal under the new Coca law
- El Diario, 01 September 2017The variety of coca leaves used in cola sodas does not exist in Bolivia
- El Diario, 29 August 2017With regards to the coca substitution program, the government of Colombia remains unorganized
- La Silla Vacia, 28 August 2017United States says that coca cultivations in Bolivia have risen to 37,500 hectares
- Pagina Siete, 27 August 2017Brazilian drug cartels are trying to control coca fields and coca leaf processing in Bolivia, in the Acre province of Brazil next to the Pando province of Bolivia
- El Deber, 27 August 2017The government of Colombia is searching for alternatives to coca farming.
- BBC News, 14 August 2017The coca growers of the Chapare region (Bolivia) impose a law of fear and anxiety in the TIPNIS national park, to prevent investigations into the new road being built through the TIPNIS would show help drug trafficking
- Pagina Siete, 23 August 2017Coca farmers start protests against renewed eradication of their coca farms in Taraza, Antioqua (Colombia)
- Caracol Radio, 22 August 2017Ditching coca for other crops, Colombia's farmers ask: "Where do we sell?"
- Christian Science Monitor, 22 August 2017A study concludes that there is only one species of coca bush in the Yungas and Chapare regions of Bolivia
- La Razon, 22 August 2017Armed harrassers impede the eradication of coca leaf in various parts of Colombia
- RCN Radio, 19 August 2017In Bolivia, cultivation of coca rose from 861 to 1233 hectares in Polygon 7 of the TIPNIS, farmed by Chapare coca growers
- El Diario, 15 August 2017Colombia: searching for an alternative to coca.
- BBC, 14 August 2017The Colombian coca growing community, which has traditionally been the social base of the Farc and could be one of the bases of its future party, wants to put candidates to compete to be elected to the Congress in 2018
- La Silla Vacia, 08 August 2017Bolivian political analyst Ivan Arias argues that the government is choosing to justify the illegal farming of coca in national parks to help being re-elected in the 2019 elections
- El Diario, 07 August 2017Wilson Santamaria, chief of the opposition party in the Bolivian national assembly, criticizes the comparison of coca farming in Bolivia and Colombia
- Pagina Siete, 07 August 2017Coca farmers and truck drivers will damage the biodiversity of the Tipnis national park in Bolivia, when new highway is built through the reserve
- El Diario, 03 August 2017Colombia's coca farmers in a legal dilemma that may jeopardize new drug policy.
- InSight Crime, 03 August 2017Opinion: In Bolivia, more production of coca and less eradication
- El Deber, 31 July 2017The coca farming leadership of the tropics of Cochabamba (Bolivia) admit that part of their production goes to drug traffickers - only 11% of the Chapare coca leaf is legally commercialized
- El Deber, 30 July 2017President Evo Morales yesterday lashed out at coca growers from the Yungas area of La Paz, urging them to stop being "envious" of their comrades in Chapare
- La Prensa, 30 July 2017President Evo Morales affirms that the new Law of Coca guarantees coca leaf farming forever for the Yungas and Tropic of Cochabamba
- La Razon, 30 July 2017The coca growers of Chapare reject talking with coca farmers from Colomi, because the Colomi lands are not legal cultivations in Bolivia
- El Diario, 25 July 2017Adepcoca (the northern coca growers in La Paz province) signaled that that "they will not abandon" the coca growers around Colomi, who are demanding to be able to legal grow 700 hectares of coca
- Los Tiempos, 25 July 2017President Evo Morales defends the new law of coca and qualifies as "enemies" those who do not value the police and army groups fighting drug trafficking
- La Razon, 25 July 2017Bolivian government reiterates that it will no permit coca farming in national parks, and views the protests of coca farmers in Colomi as politics
- La Razon, 24 July 2017Bolivian government will begin efforts to eradicate illegal cultivations of coca leaf
- El Diario, 24 July 2017The Minister of Rural Development in Bolivia, César Cocarico, denounced that the Adepcoca is delivering coca leaf production permits to those not authorized for the cultivation of the bush
- Erbol Digital, 24 July 2017A pause in the coca leaf protests en Colomi for two weeks, as they wait a the decision of the Supreme Court
- Los Tiempos, 24 July 2017Opinion: coca, cocaine and Cocarico (the minister overseeing coca]
- El Diario, 23 July 2017The United States and Bolivia are worried about the increase in coca harvests in Bolivia
- El Deber, 23 July 2017Coca growers yell 'Evo murderer!' in Colomi after protester is killed with a marble used as a bullet
- El Deber, 22 July 2017Coca growers of Colomi (Boliva) end their highway blockade and bus lines in La Paz and Cochabamba re-open travel to Santa Cruz
- La Razon, 22 July 2017Coca growers of Colomi (Boliva) end their highway blockade and police re-open the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz highway
- La Razon, 22 July 2017UN Office of Drug Control suggests three challenges to avoid increases in coca leaf farming in Bolivia
- La Prensa, 21 July 2017Opposition deputies in Bolivian national assembly demand reinforcing efforts to eradicate illegal coca farming
- El Diario, 21 July 2017Coca farmers of Colomi say that Bolivian rural development minister César Cocarico is controlled by the coca farmers of the Six Federations of the Tropics
- Los Tiempos, 21 July 2017Cuba and Uruguay to jointly research medical and nutritional uses of the coca leaf.
- Escambray, 21 July 2017The Bolivian government warns, again, about eradicating all of the illegal coca farming
- El Diario, 20 July 2017The Tropics of Cochabamba region of Bolivia harvested 17,300 metric tons of coca leaf, with only 1,861 tons going to the legal markets
- Erbol Digital, 20 July 2017En 2016, eradication of coca drops 40% in Bolivia, and cultivation rises 14%
- El Diario, 20 July 2017En 2016, eradication of coca drops 40% in Bolivia, and cultivation rises 14%
- Pagina Siete, 20 July 2017In Bolivia, farming of coca leaves in the national parks rises by 24%
- Pagina Siete, 20 July 2017Planting more coca and eradicating less in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 20 July 2017The government of Bolivia rules out recognizing, as coca growers, the protestors in Colomia who demand the government assign them 700 hectares of the 7,700 hectares made legal in the new Law of Coca
- La Razon, 20 July 2017President Evo Morales warns the Chapare coca growers that they will have problems if they grow coca in national parks
- Los Tiempos, 18 July 2017President Evo Morales guarantees the Chapare coca growers they will be given lands to grow coca outside of the national parks
- La Razon, 18 July 2017After decades of war, Colombian coca farmers face a new test - peace.
- New York Times, 18 July 2017The Pacific region of Colombia continues being the region with the most cultivation of coca in the country
- El Pais, 15 July 2017Supreme Court in Bolivia admits lawsuit against the new law of coca farming.
- La Razon, 10 July 2017The rural development minister of Bolivia, Cesar Cocarico, trusts that the Supreme Court will validate the new coca farming law.
- La Razon, 10 July 201750 buses of Coca leaf growers from northern Bolivia (the Yungas) travel to Sucre to march on the country's Supreme Court to demand that parts of the new coca law that favor southern Bolivian growers be ruled unconstitutional.
- La Razon, 10 July 201750 buses of Coca leaf growers from northern Bolivia (the Yungas) travel to Sucre to march on the country's Supreme Court to demand that parts of the new coca law that favor southern Bolivian growers be ruled unconstitutional.
- El Deber, 10 July 2017Uruguay will investigate the medical benefits of Bolivian coca leaf
- NotiAmerica, 07 July 2017The Honduran army destroys first coca crop detected in the country.
- Dialogo, 06 July 2017Retail vendors of coca leaf in La Paz, Bolivia, boycott purchases of coca leaves from Adepcoca
- Pagina Siete, 06 July 2017UN Drug Control Office wants to re-analyze the amount of farming of coca leaf in Bolivia
- La Prensa, 06 July 2017The ten fundamental criticiams of the policy of coca crop substitution in Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 04 July 2017In Ecuador, cultivate coca leaf with the permission of a judge!
- Extra (Ec), 28 June 201753% of the Bolivian population does not chew coca leaf
- Pagina Siete, 25 June 2017In Bolivia, coca leaf producers can sell 25% more coca without waiting for a new regulation to be approved
- Pagina Siete, 20 June 2017Adepcoca, the association of 35,000 coca growers in northern Bolivia (the Yungas region), votes to not recognize the new law of coca farming
- La Prensa, 18 June 2017The government of Bolivia will increase from 8 to 10 taques (50 pound bags) that licensed sellers of coca leaf can sell each month
- Pagina Siete, 15 June 2017In Bolivia, rural development minister Cesar Cocarico is accused for private negotiations with a small, select group of northern (Yungas) coca growers
- El Diario, 15 June 2017Are Colombians trying to expand cultivation of coca into Honduras?
- InSight Crime, 13 June 2017In Peru, growers of 'world's best' coffee are losing ground to the popularity of coca farming.
- Scroll.in, 10 June 2017Colombians are growing coca plants in Olancho, Honduras
- La Prensa (Hn), 09 June 2017Honduras destroys its first coca plantation.
- La Prensa (Hn), 08 June 2017Coca plantation 'experiment', 8.4 hectares, in Olancho, Honduras raises eyebrows.
- InSight Crime, 26 May 2017Discovering 12 fields of coca plants on a mountain in Olancho, Honduras
- La Prensa (Hn), 22 May 2017The United States requests that Colombia resume the aerial spraying of coca crops with herbicides
- El Pais, 13 June 2017Bolivia admits losing to China, India and the U.S. in international markets for quinua exports
- Erbol, 11 June 2017Legal complaint being readied against Bolivian coca growers in the Yungas who acted violently during a visit of a government minister
- Los Tiempos, 11 June 2017Bolivian coca growers in the Yungas (Arapata) use dynamite during visit by Rural Development minister Cesar Cocarico
- Erbol, 11 June 2017Bolivian government security forces to investigate violent acts by Yungas coca growers protesting the new coca law
- La Prensa, 11 June 2017Legal complaint being readied against Bolivian coca growers in the Yungas who acted violently during a visit of a government minister
- Erbol, 11 June 2017A new group of coca growers from the north of La Paz are forming a new association separate from Adepcoca.
- Pagina Siete, 04 June 2017Editorial: coca farming in Bolivia results in over 500,000 low quality jobs
- El Diario, 29 May 2017Only 3 of 32 departments in Colombia are free of coca farming.
- El Tiempo, 29 May 2017Peru plans to redice by half its cultivation of coca by 2021
- Pagina Siete, 25 May 2017Government of Bolivia warns the Supreme Court (TCP) against suspending the new coca law
- La Razon, 24 May 2017Missed deadlines with the peace agreement in Colombia, with no progress with the coca farming problem.
- Economist, 20 May 2017Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) and UD opposition party in Bolivia file lawsuit that annuls the expansion of coca farming into the Chapare
- La Razon, 18 May 2017Opposition political party in Bolivia (the UD party) seeks a 20-year jail penalty for those who illegally grow coca
- El Diario, 16 May 2017Government of Colombia starts new strategy to reduce the farming of coca leaf, but drug trafficking groups take immediate steps against new plans.
- Colombia Reports, 13 May 2017Opposition political party in Bolivia, Unidad Democrata, offers to file lawsuit challenging constitutionality of new coca law
- Erbol Digital, 11 May 2017Adepcoca (northern coca growers in Bolivia) look to the opposition UD party to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new coca law
- La Razon, 11 May 2017In Bolivia, Adepcoca (northern coca growers) request support of the Public Defender to file a lawsuit against the new Coca Law
- Los Tiempos, 03 May 2017Bolivian governments intends to open a plant to manufacture decocainized coca leaf products, and seek to reactivate two industrialization plants
- La Razon, 24 April 2017Mauricio Mamani: the coca leaf, from the sacred to folklore
- El Diario, 24 April 2017The hidden truths of the coca farmers' conflict in Tumaco, Colombia
- El Pais, 23 April 2017President Evo Morales asks the coca farmers of Cochabamba to not plant coca in protected areas of national parks
- Los Tiempos, 23 April 2017Coca farmers from the Chaparé seek a meeting with their peers from the Yungas (Bolivia)
- El Diario, 20 April 2017Debate in La Paz: prohibited plants under the new anti-drug policy in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 20 April 2017United Nations recommends to Colombia to focus on voluntary substitution of illegal cultivations
- El Pais (Co), 19 April 2017The Bolivian Economics Minister, Luis Arce Catacora, called on the media to help raise awareness among coca farmers in the Yungas to pay taxes
- Erbol Digital, 19 April 2017Adepcoca, representing the Yungas coca farmers (Bolivia) seek to have the new Coca Law declared unconstitutional
- Pagina Siete, 18 April 2017Adepcoca, representing the Yungas coca farmers (Bolivia) seek to have the new Coca Law declared unconstitutional
- El Diario, 18 April 2017Chocolate that defeats the coca - Colombian peasants change the violence and the illegality of coca with cacao
- El Pais (Es), 17 April 2017Bolivian coca farmers from the Yungas file an appeal against the new Coca Law
- Erbol Digital, 17 April 2017The Bolivian Economics Minister, Luis Arce Catacora, called on the media to help raise awareness among coca farmers in the Yungas to pay taxes
- Erbol Digital, 17 April 2017As U.S. pressures Colombia to curb coca boom, eradication meets growing local resistance
- Colombia Reports, 14 April 2017Coca farmers in Argelia, Cauca (Colombia) reject eradication and block the streets
- W Radio (Co), 11 April 2017Negotiating with growers, Bolivia forges its own approach to coca production
- World Politics Review, 11 April 2017Coca farmers in Cochabamba (Bolivia) request consideration of paying taxes under the new coca law
- El Dia, 10 April 2017The Fundación Acción Semila (Bolivia) seeks to produce organic coca for export
- Pagina Siete, 10 April 2017The new coca law in Bolivia provokes confrontations between Yungas producers and authorities
- El Diario, 10 April 2017Coca farmers march this Friday in Popayan (Colombia)
- W Radio (Co), 07 April 2017The new coca law in Bolivia: the new regulation scenarios
- Oxigeno, 06 April 2017Coca for cacao: the way towards legality for the Colombian communities of Vichada
- Dialogo Americas, 05 April 2017Thousands of coca farmers of Colombia: we campesinos, we coca farmers, are not deliquents!
- Rebelion, 05 April 2017The other enemy of coca substitution that was uncovered in Tumaco, Colombia - enemies much more powerful and armed than small coca farmers
- La Silla Vacia, 04 April 2017Growing coffee instead of coca in Peru.
- Digital Development Debates, 03 April 2017The new coca law favors the elite coca growers of the Chapare and the Yungas in Bolivia
- El Pais, 01 April 2017Seven people injured during a street blockade by coca growers in Tumaco (Colombia)
- El Tiempo, 30 March 2017Coca farmers burn buses and block the highway in Tumaco, Colombia
- Panama Post, 30 March 2017Argentina worries about the new law that almost doubles the cultivation of coca in Bolivia
- Panama Post, 30 March 2017United States differs with the UN Office of Drug Control, and firmly insists that in Bolivia there are 36,500 hectares of coca farming
- La Razon, 30 March 2017In Bolivia, coca production creates overexploitation, generates 675,149 precarious jobs, a large majority of them between farm workers and day laborers
- El Diario, 29 March 2017With the help of Cubans, Bolivian is elaborating a project for the industrialization of coca
- Pagina Siete, 29 March 2017Bolivian government believes that coca "is the mother of our dignity"
- El Deber, 28 March 2017The new law of coca (Bolivia) benefits coca-growing capitalists, big or small, but not for the poor salaried campesinos
- BolPress, 27 March 2017Wilfredo Llojlla es the new Vice Minister of Coca in Bolivia
- Erbol Digital, 27 March 2017The United States is worried about the new Law of Coca Leaf in Bolivia
- Erbol Dibitial, 26 March 20173,700 hectares in the Cauca region of Colombia are ready for substitution of illegal cultivations such as coca
- El Pais, 27 March 2017Manufacturers in Bolivia: the government fails to support the industrialization of coca
- Pagina Siete, 26 March 2017In Bolivia, the coca leaf from the Yungas is preferred in Santa Cruz for chewing and making tea, but not coca leaf from the Chapare
- Pagina Siete, 26 March 2017Colombia's coca substitution pilot program suspended after farmers rise up.
- Colombia Reports, 26 March 2017The coca farming revolution in Bolivia
- La Vanguardia, 25 March 2017Bolivia law 1008 confuses the traditional farming of coca with a crime of international dimensions
- La Razon, 25 March 2017Corinto (a municipality in the north of Cauaca, Colombia) is one of the acid tests of coca crop substitution in Colombia
- CRIC Colombia, 24 March 2017Rich-world agricultural subsidies ensure coca leaves are Colombia's only viable cash crop.
- Boing Boing, 24 March 2017Corinto, a municipality in north Cauca, Colombia, is an acid test for the substitution of coca farming
- La Silla Vacia, 23 March 2017Colombian in Spain acquited of charges of drug trafficking due to importing ground coca leaf
- TNI, 23 March 2017Which regions of Colombia are playing the biggest role in the coca boom?
- Insight Crime, 23 March 2017Coca-growing in Colombia is at an all time high, with the government hoping that former FARC guerillas will persuade villagers to switch crops
- Economist, 23 March 2017Myths and truths about the coca farming bonanza (including 188,000 illegal hectares) in Colombia
- El Tiempo, 22 March 2017Why coca leaf, not coffee, may always be Colombia's favorite cash crop
- Today Colombia, 20 March 2017Why coca leaf, not coffee, may always be Colombia's favourite cash crop
- Huffington Post, 20 March 2017Editorial: increased coca farming in Bolivia will not lead to more legal products through industrialization, but rather more cocaine production
- El Diario, 20 March 2017Why coca leaf, not coffee, may always be Colombia's favourite cash crop
- The World Post, 20 March 2017Three out of ten Bolivians regularly consume coca leaf
- El Deber, 18 March 2017President Evo Morales impassions the coca growers of Cochabamba: "¡Long live coca, death to the Yankees!"
- Erbol Digital, 18 March 2017Cuban scientists investigating properties of the coca leaf in Bolivia
- ambio, 17 March 2017UN Office of Drug Control is collecting data for a report on coca leaf crops in Bolivia
- La Razon, 17 March 2017The new law of coca, a serious measure against Bolivia
- El Diario, 17 March 2017The campesino face of coca in Colombia
- El Espectador, 16 March 2017Will there be more legal consumption of coca in Bolivia, now that there is more legal coca growing allowed?
- El Deber, 16 March 2017Bolivia will eventually repent for its expansion of coca farming, and bury coca law Law 1008.
- El Diario, 16 March 2017The Plan Colombian eradication failure: 17 years and $10 billion later, coca production in Colombia is up 38%
- Colombia Reports, 15 March 2017Bolivia dreams of selling coca leaf, but all the world sees is cocaine
- The Guardian, 15 March 2017Bolivia dreams of selling coca leaf, but all the world sees is cocaine
- Erbol Digital, 19 March 2017In Bolivia, the government elevates the production of coca, but abandons the food production sectors
- El Diario, 15 March 2017Colombian government confirms that coca farming reached a historic record in Colombia - 188,000 hectares and 710 tons
- El Tiempo, 15 March 2017United States reports that coca farming reached a historic record in Colombia - 188,000 hectares and 710 tons
- El Tiempo, 15 March 2017The European Union requests more studies about the coca leaf in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 14 March 2017The resurgence in coca cultivation in Colombia worries the United States
- Wall Street Journal, 13 March 2017The controversial new law for coca, and its effects in Bolivia [good photos]
- Los Tiempos, 13 March 2017The new controversial law of coca farming and its effects in Bolivia (with graphics)
- Los Tiempos, 13 March 2017Deputy Lino Cárdenas states that 3 of 10 Bolivians consume legal coca leaf daily, the others occasionally
- Erbol Digital, 13 March 2017In Vienna, Bolivia will defend its coca leaf policies and anti-drug fight, in reports to the UN
- La Razon, 13 March 2017Coca, the 1000-year-old leaf that survived the fight against drug trafficking in Colombia
- La Vanguardia, 12 March 2017In Bolivia, production of coca leaf in the Chapare region equals that of the Yungas region
- Pagina Siete, 12 March 2017The government of Bolivia announces that a German business is negotiating to buy a coca beverage from Bolivia
- La Razon, 11 March 2017The fight against cocaine: its failure and a solution
- El Diario, 11 March 2017The politics of a tax on legal coca farming in Bolivia
- El Deber, 11 March 2017The new coca leaf law in Bolivia: solution or sacrifice?
- El Diario, 09 March 2017One of the desires of President Evo Morales is that there will be coca leaf forever, and that the practice of coca chewing expand around the world
- Pagina Siete, 09 March 2017Chapare region in Bolivia evaluating areas where legal coca will be farmed
- El Deber, 09 March 2017Coca leaf from Chapare will be sold directly to consumers in local communities
- Los Tiempos, 09 March 2017The Bolivian government admits failings in the control of legal coca farming and bets on penalties to prevent diversion to drug traffickers
- La Razon, 09 March 2017The fraud of coca industrialization in Bolivia
- Erbol Digitial, 08 March 2017President Evo Morales signs new coca farming law without the support of the Yungas region of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 08 March 2017Coca leaf growers from the Yungas region reject the new coca leaf law in Bolivia, rejecting the increase in legal cultivation in the Cochabamba region of the Chapare
- El Diario, 08 March 2017President Evo Morales signs the new law that expands legal plantings of coca leaf and calls for effort to industrialize coca products
- La Razon, 08 March 2017President Evo Morales labels as traitors those who reject the new law of coca farming in Bolivia
- La Razon, 08 March 2017The government of Bolivia will work with leaders of the coca growers from the Yungas and Chapare to create a tax law for coca farming
- La Razon, 08 March 2017Bolivian government expects to impose a tax on coca leaf sales
- El Deber, 08 March 2017Bolivia faces the challenging of explaining to the world the increase in coca farming under the new law
- El Deber, 08 March 2017In La Paz (Bolivia), they only sell and consume coca leaf from the northern Yungas region
- El Diario, 06 March 2017The environment and security at risk due to the new coca laws in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 05 March 2017The new coca law in Bolivia: peace and money in exchange for a greater social risk
- El Deber, 05 March 2017The increase in coca farming threatens relations between Colombia and the United States, now more than 200,000 hectares
- El Tiempo, 05 March 2017Tumaco and Briceño: two of the zones with the most cultivation of coca in Colombia
- Semana, 04 March 2017The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, rejects a U.S. report about anti-drug efforts in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 03 March 2017Life in the VRAEM, Peru's 'cocaine valley'.
- Al Jazeera, 03 March 2017The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, rejects a U.S. report about anti-drug efforts in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 03 March 2017An annual report of the U.S. State Department warns that in 2016, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia continue being the biggest producers of coca and cocaine in the world
- agina Siete, 03 March 2017An annual report of the U.S. State Department warns that in 2016, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia continue being the biggest producers of coca and cocaine in the world
- El Diario, 03 March 2017'Coca farming increased because the Government of Colombia peace activities with FARC', according to the U.S. Department of State
- Colombia Reports, 03 March 2017'Coca farming increased because the Government of Colombia peace activities with FARC', according to the U.S. Department of State
- El Tiempo, 03 March 2017Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, justifies approval of expansion of coca leaf cultivation to 22,000 hectares and assures that legal demand is growing
- La Razon, 01 March 2017Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, justifies approval of expansion of coca leaf cultivation to 22,000 hectares
- El Deber, 01 March 2017Increase of allowed patents of coca leaf will have an effect on the environment in Bolivia
- El Deber, 01 March 2017Increase of allowed patents of coca leaf will have an effect on the environment in Bolivia
- El Diario, 01 March 2017Evo Morales argues that the political right has moral basis to criticize expanded cultivation of coca
- Cambio, 01 March 2017Evo Morales argues that the political right has moral basis to criticize expanded cultivation of coca
- Pagina Siete, 01 March 201756 intellectuals and professionals in Bolivia reject the new law that expands growth of coca
- Pagina Siete, 01 March 2017147 intellectuals in Bolivia reject the new law that expands growth of coca
- Pagina Siete, 01 March 2017In Bolivia, political opposition argues that the new coca law favors drug traffickers
- Erbol Digital, 01 March 2017Coca leaf in Bolivia: 25,000 tons are being chewed of the 39,000 tons being harvested?
- Erbol Digital, 01 March 2017The increase in hectares of coca farming in Bolivia was due to pressure from coca farmers
- El Diario, 28 February 2017Bolivian government calculates that 6000 tons of coca leaf are for legal industrial and commercial uses, and 18000 tons of coca are being consumed
- La Razon, 26 February 2017Proposed new law for legal coca farming temporarily ends tax on coca leaf harvests.
- El Deber, 25 February 2017Foreign diplomats and social networks in Bolivia raises concerns and voice objections to new law that expands coca farming from 10,000 hectares to 22,000 hectares.
- Pagina Siete, 25 February 2017Bolivian Senate approves new coca farming law that expands legal growth to 22,000 hectares, up from 12,000 hectares under the old law
- La Razon, 24 February 2017Bolivian Senate approves new coca farming law that expands legal growth to 22,000 hectares, up from 12,000 hectares under the old law
- Los Tiempos, 24 February 2017Bolivian Senate approves new coca farming law that expands legal growth to 22,000 hectares, up from 12,000 hectares under the old law
- El Diario, 24 February 2017Bolivian Senate approves new coca farming law that expands legal growth to 22,000 hectares, up from 12,000 hectares under the old law
- Pagina Siete, 24 February 2017Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) accept agreement with governent to allow some legal coca growing in the Chapare
- El Deber, 23 February 2017Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) accept agreement with governent to allow some legal coca growing in the Chapare
- Los Tiempos, 23 February 2017Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) accept agreement with governent to allow some legal coca growing in the Chapare
- Pagina Siete, 23 February 2017Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) accept agreement with governent to allow some legal coca growing in the Chapare
- La Razon, 23 February 2017Bolivian government accuses leader of northern coca growers of frustrating attempts to reach an agreement
- La Razon, 23 February 2017Government of Bolivia requests that the coca growers halt their protests after an agreement is reached on expanded farming
- La Razon, 23 February 2017Government of Bolivia agrees to allow northern coca growers (Yungas) to harvest 14,300 hectares of coca, and southern growers (Chapare) to harvest 7000 hectares.
- La Razon, 23 February 2017Government of Bolivia agrees to allow northern coca growers (Yungas) to harvest 14,300 hectares of coca, and southern growers (Chapare) to harvest 7000 hectares.
- Pagina Siete, 23 February 2017Political opposition in Bolivia proposes a referendum to define the increase in legal coca growth
- Pagina Siete, 22 February 2017Government of Bolivia and northern coca growers (Adepcoca) start discussions on the new coca leaf laws
- Pagina Siete, 22 February 201730 injured and 148 coca growers arrested in confrontations with police in La Paz
- El Diario, 22 February 2017Government defends allowing coca farming in the Chapare (Bolivia) and wants coca growers to understand the importance of the proposed law
- La Razon, 22 February 2017Police in Bolivia free 111 coca growers that were arrested for their public disturbances during protests
- La Razon, 22 February 2017Politicians in Bolivia start formal discussions on a new coca farming law, while protests rage in streets of La Paz
- La Razon, 22 February 2017Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) decide to restart protests and block the streets in Villa Fatima
- La Razon, 21 February 2017Indigenous villagers in Peru losing patience with land seizures by other farmers growing illegal coca crops.
- Reuters, 21 February 2017Coca growers reiterate and threaten new blockades in the city of La Paz
- ErBol, 21 February 2017Northern Bolivian coca farmers (from the Yungas) decide to restart protes ts in La Paz, and the UN Office of Drug Control offers to mediate the conflict with the government
- La Razon, 20 February 2017Police in La Paz suppress protests of coca growers; at least 40 are arrested, while the government calls for dialog
- La Razon, 20 February 2017Police in La Paz suppress protests of coca growers; at least 40 are arrested, while the government calls for dialog
- ErBol, 20 February 2017Police in Bolivia intervene in a vigil of coca leaf growers at the Murillo government plaza, as the government complains of confrontations
- La Razon, 20 February 2017Police in Bolivia intervene in a vigil of coca leaf growers at the Murillo government plaza, as the government complains of confrontations
- Pagina Siete, 20 February 2017Under the proposed law, the Chapare region of Bolivia will now be able to grow 7000 hectares of coca leaf, producing 19,000 tons a year.
- Los Tiempos, 19 February 2017Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) in the Yungas region of Bolivia demand that the government justify why it is making legal the farming of 7,000 hectares of coca farming in the southern Chapare region.
- Erbol, 19 February 2017Northern coca growers (Adepcoca) in the Yungas region of Bolivia demand that the government eradicate all of the coca farming in the southern region of Chapare which is now illegal
- Cambio, 19 February 2017Government of Bolivia convened a meeting with the northern coca growers from the Yungas to discuss changes to the coca growing laws
- Cambio, 19 February 2017Cesar Cocarico, the rural development minister of Bolivia, says that protests by the northern coca growers of the Yungas is just policitics
- El Diario, 19 February 2017Cesar Cocarico, the rural development minister of Bolivia, says that the northern coca growers of the Yungas requested the right to grow 24,000 hectares of coca leaf, not the 13,000 hectares as in the proposed law
- Pagina Siete, 19 February 2017The Legislative Assembly of Bolivia suspends debate over proposed changes to the coca growing laws
- Los Tiempos, 18 February 2017Coca growers from the Yungas region of Bolivia close the Murillo government plaza to protest proposed changes to the coca growing laws that favors coca growers from the Chapare
- El Diario, 18 February 2017Coca growers from the Yungas region of Bolivia close the Murillo government plaza to protest proposed changes to the coca growing laws that favors coca growers from the Chapare
- Pagina Siete, 18 February 2017Coca growers from the Yungas region of Bolivia close the Murillo government plaza to protest proposed changes to the coca growing laws that favors coca growers from the Chapare
- La Razon, 18 February 2017Vice Ministry of Coca Production resigns in Bolivia
- El Diario, 17 February 2017Editorial: Bolivia really doesn't need to expand coca farming from 12,000 hectares to 20,000 hectares
- El Diario, 17 February 2017The government of Colombia hopes to substitute/eradicate 100,000 hectares of coca farming in 2017
- El Pais, 13 February 2017Colombia will grant land titles to 10,000 families to abandon coca growing, in three departments of the southwest region of the country where 40% of the coca in the country is grown
- Gestion, 06 February 2017Government of Bolivia begins plan to erradicate 5000 hectares of coca leaf plants this year
- El Diario, 01 February 2017Yungas coca leaf growers and government of Bolivia continue fighting over changes to Law 1008 regulating legal coca leaf growing
- El Deber, 01 February 2017Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) request respect for their current acreages of cultivation
- Pagina Siete, 29 January 2017Coca farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) request respect for their current acreages of cultivation
- El Diario, 29 January 2017Colombia and FARC rebels to wage joint fight against coca cultivation.
- Reuters, 28 January 2017The deaths of those at "war" over coca in the Córdoba south, Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 27 January 2017The coca leaf growers of Colombia want to have a strong voice in drug politics, and launch a new association of coca growers, the National Council for Growers of Coca, Marijuana and Opium (COCCAM in Spanish)
- La Silla Vacia, 23 January 2017In Bolivia, arguments over a proposed new law for coca farming saddens the celebrations for the Day of Coca Chewing
- Pagina Siete, 12 January 2017Why getting farmers to switch from tobacco crops is a struggle.
- CNBC, 10 January 2017Government of Bolivia will set limit of 20,000 hectares of legal coca, and a tax of 2 bolivianos per pound
- El Deber, 08 January 2017Coca growers in the Yungas and in Cochabamba regions disagree over proposed law for legal coca growing
- La Prensa, 08 January 2017Margaret Thatcher planned to infest Latin America coca crops with a plant-eating moth without informing the local governments.
- The Times, 30 December 2016Adepcoca (association of coca growers in Bolivia) reject meeting with Minister Cocarico, insisting they want to talk with President Morales
- El Diario, 28 December 2016The government of Bolivia seeks to provide public lands to coca growers, and admits that eradication efforts "are not a total success"
- La Razon, 22 December 2016Bolivia projects exporting to Ecuador, starting in February, products derived from the coca leaf
- La Razon, 22 December 2016Bolivia eradicates a lower quantity of coca leaf, 6,576 hectares in 2016 versus 11,025 in 2015, as it approaches goal of 20,000 legal hectares of coca farmign
- El Deber, 22 December 2016Of the 32 departments (provinces) of Colombia, 29 cultivate coca leaf
- Prensa Latina, 17 December 2016"It isn't impossible to live without coca leaf", according to inhabitants of El Placer (Putumayo, Colombia) - substituting coca leaf with cacao
- El Espectador, 17 December 2016Farmers in Antioquia (Colombia) denounce the forced eradication of coca leaf
- Colombia Informa, 16 December 2016The FARC guerillas of Colombia: not just drug traffickers nor just revolutionaries
- La Silla Vacia, 15 December 2016AIN short film explores community coca control in Bolivia.
- Andean Information Network, 14 December 2016How community coca control and integral development prioritize SDGs in Chapare.
- Andean Information Network, 14 December 2016Cacao - an option en Paramillo (Colombia) for switching from coca farming
- El Colombiano, 14 December 2016Colombia will being the manual use of glyphosate to eradicate coca cultivation
- La Razon, 12 December 2016Interview with coca grower Amapola Duran Salas in Peru.
- Andean Information Network, 08 December 2016What are we going to do to lower the production of coca in Colombia?
- El Tiempo, 05 December 2016Bolivia plans to export coca teas and coca liquors to Ecuador
- La Razon, 29 November 2016The 'traditional zone' of coca cultivation in Bolivia, the debate that is coming - the statistics
- La Razon, 28 November 2016Bolivia signs agreement with Ecuador to export coca products
- La Razon, 21 November 2016Bolivia will export to Ecuador products derived from coca
- Pagina Siete, 22 November 2016If Bolivians want more water to drink, say "no" to illegal coca farming
- Opinion, 11 November 2016Coca leaf farmers in northern Bolivia propose a law to guarantee the perpetual right to grow coca in eight regions of Bolivia
- La Razon, 15 November 2016Coca growers of the Chapare (Bolivia) propose their own modifications to the coca laws
- El Deber, 15 November 2016Excessive chewing of coca leaf can cause mouth cancer
- Pagina Siete, 06 November 2016Coca leaf was used as money during the pre-Hispanic era in the Andes
- Pagina Siete, 06 November 2016Police in Argentina seize 1.25 tons of coca leaf hidden in a shipment of oranges from Bolivia.
- La Razon, 30 October 2016Police in Peru and Bolivia seize 1.2 tons of coca leaf from Peru being shipped to Bolivia thru Lake Titicaca region.
- La Razon, 30 October 2016UNASUR report highlights achievements of Bolivian coca control
- Andean Information Network, 27 October 2016Bolivia proposes a new law to protect the cultural heritage of coca chewing.
- La Razon, 26 October 2016International Narcotics Control Board (INCB/JIFE) congratulates Bolivia for its antidrug efforts based on manual eradication of coca
- La Razon, 19 October 2016Peru renews military operations in VRAEM coca hub.
- InSight Crime, 11 October 2016High schools in Cochabamba region (Bolivia) will include the history of coca in their educational curriculum
- La Razon, 20 September 2016How Bolivia successfully fights drug trafficking.
- New York Times, 14 September 2016Putting coca back in the cola, Colombia mulls coca-based products, for example, from the Coca Nasa indigenous coca products company
- Miami Herald, 09 September 2016Cacao for coca in Colombia.
- The Bogota Post, 09 September 2016Colombia struggles to reduce illegal farming of coca leaf.
- StratFor, 31 August 2016Poverty could hobble efforts in Colombia to reduce coca leaf farming after a peace deal is reached with FARC
- Voice of America, 26 August 2016Vice-minister of Defense of Bolivia proposes three years in jail for the illegal cultivation of coca
- La Razon, 22 August 2016In 8 months, Bolivia eradicated 4,200 hectares of coca
- La Razon, 20 August 2016Links between gold and coca in Colombia.
- COHA News, 18 August 2016A journey to the town of El Tambo, the 'coca heart' of Cauca, Colombia
- El Pais, 16 August 2016New Colombia Resources (www.newcolombiaresources.com) plans to develop medicinal coca.
- Finance Colombia, 12 August 2016In Colombia, Senator Jual Manuel Galán open the debate above the medical use of coca leaf
- RCN Radio, 09 August 2016New defense minister of Peru vists the coca growing region of VRAEM.
- El Commercio, 09 August 2016Why is coca leaf left out of the drug research renaissance?
- Inverse, 03 August 2016Illegal cultivation of coca leaf, and rates of changes of currencies
- Portfolio, 25 July 2016Why has the harvesting of coca leaf in Colombia risen sharply?
- El Pais, 23 July 2016Coca growers report that 30% of the production of coca leaf in the Yungas region of Bolivia is affected by insect pests
- La Razon, 19 July 2016Coca growing zones of Caranavi and Apolo (Bolivia) will be added to list of legal zones for coca farming
- La Razon, 15 July 2016Who will control the coca fields in Colombia without FARC?
- The Atlantic, 01 July 2016It is time to respect the indigenous biocultural heritage of the coca plant.
- Intercontinental Cry, 28 June 2016Bolivia has its 7th vice minister of coca farming in 10 years
- La Razon, 19 June 2016Citizenship or repression? Coca, eradication and development in the Andes - Bolivia.
- Andean Information Network, 01 April 2016Ecuador agrees to imports of coca products from Bolivia such as coca teas.
- La Razon, 11 July 2016Bolivia to expand legal cultivation of coca leaves from 14,750 hectares to 20,000 hectares, though only 8,000 hectares needed for legal consumption
- El Deber, 11 July 2016Chapare coca growers propose that Bolivia expand legal cultivation of coca leaves from 14,750 hectares to 20,000 hectares
- El Deber, 11 July 2016Bolivia to expand legal cultivation of coca leaves from 14,750 hectares to 20,000 hectares, though only 8,000 hectares needed for legal consumption
- La Razon, 11 July 2016Bolivia to expand legal cultivation of coca leaves from 14,750 hectares to 20,000 hectares, though only 8,000 hectares needed for legal consumption
- Pagina Siete, 11 July 2016Colombia doubles in two years its cultivation of coca leaf, now growing 96,000 hectares
- El Diario, 09 July 2016Contradictory statistics about the amount of coca leaf being grown in Bolivia
- El Diario, 08 July 2016Between 2015 and 2015, cultivation of coca leaf grew 39% in Colombia
- El Deber, 08 July 2016Bolivia assumes head of the regional ALADI committee on the industrialization of coca
- La Razon, 07 July 2016UNODC recommends that Bolivia design a new strategy to "sustainably reduce" coca cultivation
- La Razon, 06 July 2016European Union finances a study about the potential of producing medicinal cocaine in Bolivia
- La Razon, 05 July 2016Laws regulating the coca leaf in Bolivia to be updated by the end of 2016
- La Razon, 21 June 2016How the coca leaf became the new superfood of Colombia.
- Vice, 19 May 2016Coca tea is slowly becoming popular with people in Spain
- El Deber, 17 June 2017What Colombian farmers can buy when they use coca leaves and coca paste as currency [good photos]
- Business Insider, 08 June 2016Coca growers of the Six Federations of Cochabamba launch a newspaper and radio station
- La Razon, 02 June 2016U.S. taxpayers wasted $4.3 billion fighting the cocaine war in Colombia from 2000 to 2008, achieving little reduction through eradication of coca leaves
- Washington Post, 31 May 2016Peru and Bolivia create an intelligence center to work together to halt illegal coca farming along their borders
- La Razon, 28 May 2016The new law in the United States against drug trafficking violates the sovereignty of other countries
- EL Diario, 25 May 2016Sellers of coca leaf in three regions of Bolivia hold street protests to demand the creation of a State Market for coca leaf
- La Razon, 24 May 2016Works of art using coca leaves of the Bolivian artist, Gastón Ugalde, are burned by authorities in Holland
- La Razon, 24 May 2016Is the coca leaf eradication policy in South America obsolete?
- Poder, 21 May 2016Who will hire FARC guerillas after peace, if they can't continue to farm coca leaf?
- The Daily Beast, 20 May 2016President Evo Morales criticizes new law of the United States that could be used to extradict coca leaf farmers.
- El Deber, 19 May 2016Coca leaf farmers of Cochabamba (Bolivia) reject new law of the United States that could be used to extradict coca leaf farmers.
- Los Tiempos, 19 May 2016How the coca leaf became the new superfood of Colombia.
- Vice, 19 May 2016A big increase in Coca cultivation in Norte de Santander is troubling for peace plans in Colombia.
- InSight Crime, 19 May 2016On video: why farming coca leaf is a good business for a farmer in Colombia
- Las 2 Orillas, 19 May 2016On video: how will coca farmers survive the peace plans of Colombia?
- Las 2 Orillas, 18 May 2016Minister of Justice of Colombia, Jorge Londoño, rules out that cultivators of coca leaf will be extradited to the U.S.
- Caracol Radio, 18 May 2016Coca leaf farmers in the Asociacion de Zonas de Reserva Campesina oppose the new anti-drug law signed by President Obama.
- CMI, 17 May 2016New law against drug trafficking signed by President Obama won't be used to extradict coca leaf farmers, but rather make it easier to extradict leaders of drug trafficking gangs.
- El Espectador, 17 May 2016Because of a new law of the United States, farmers of coca leaf could be extradited to the United States
- El Colombiano, 17 May 201650 former coca leaf farmers sell their first year of production of cacao
- Info Region, 17 May 2016Peruvian presidential candidate, Keiko Fujimori, snubs for the second time the coca growers of the VRAEM region
- La Republica, 13 May 2016The government of Bolivia and the UN Office of Drug Control will update methods of measurement of coca cultivation
- La Razon, 10 May 2016The PPK party of Peru (led by Pedro Pablo Kuczynaki) will continue efforts to eradicate coca leaf, if it wins the presidential election
- America Economia, 10 May 2016José Chãvez Peñherrera, brother of Peruvian drug trafficker "Vaticano", changes from growing coca leaf to growing cacao.
- RPP, 10 May 2016Peruvian presidential candidate, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, rejects any political alliance with a jailed leader of coca growers, Nelson Palomino.
- Alta Voz, 06 May 2016Peruvian presidential candidate, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, signs agreement with a jailed leader of coca growers, Nelson Palomino.
- Peru21, 06 May 2016Coca growers in La Asunta (the Yungas of Bolivia) declare an emergency, and demand that the government cease eradication efforts.
- La Razon, 05 May 2016Coca growers in La Asunta (the Yungas of Bolivia) declare an emergency, and demand that the government cease eradication efforts.
- La Razon, 04 May 2016Replacing the cultivation of coca leaf with that of cacao in Sion Valley (Peru)
- RPP, 02 May 2016Coca farmers in Cauca (Colombia) block a highway to protest the eradication of illegal plantings
- Caracol Radio, 03 May 2016Peruvian police in the VRAEM incinerate more than 3 tons of dry coca leaf.
- Info Region, 02 May 2016Without eradication nor substitutions, coca leaf harvests in Catatumbo (Colombia) rise 82%.
- El Tiempo, 01 May 2016The ELN guerrilas and the business of coca leaf in Norte de Santander (Colombia)
- La Opinion, 01 May 2016Coca growers across Bolivia are debating a new law for coca growing to replace Law 1008 passed in 1988.
- El Deber, 01 May 2016Government of Colombia is preparing a decree to expand the use of coca leaf for medical purposes
- Minuto30, 27 April 2016In Arauca (Colombia), changing from the cultivation of coca leaf to cacao to earn $20,000
- RCN Radio, 27 April 2016The war against the coca leaf has criminalized an expression of Andean culture.
- Open Democracy, 26 April 2016Coca growers in Northern Bolivia (ADEPCOCA) are analyzing the proposed revisions to the coca laws.
- La Razon, 26 April 2016Colombia rethinks its strategy for coca eradication, and targets laboratories that make cocaine.
- Insight Crime, 25 April 2016Ineffective and possible carcinogenic, but Colombia will go back to attacking coca plants with glyphosate.
- MintPress News, 22 April 2016Peru attributes a 50% drop in the price of coca leaf (down to $1.80 per kilogram) due to drop in demand from drug traffickers.
- Insight Crime, 22 April 2016President Evo Morales of Bolivia defends the coca leaf, and requests that the U.S. DEA be kept away from the fight against drugs
- La Razon, 22 April 2016Fashion models in Bolivia that chew coca leaf.
- El Deber, 20 April 2016Colombia considers resuming glyphosate use on crops of coca leaf.
- InSight Crime, 19 April 2016Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, urges the Pope to chew coca leaves.
- Vice News, 15 April 2016Coca leaf: doubts, questions, ideas (by Carlos Mesa, former president of Bolivia)
- Los Tiempos, 10 April 2016In Bolivia, in May, government to start a debate about modifying the laws to legally grow coca leaf (Law 1008).
- La Razon, 06 April 2016Citizenship or repression? Coca, eradication and development in the Andes - Bolivia.
- Andean Information Network, 01 April 2016In Bolivia, southern coca growers (six federations of Cochabamba) give support to proposed law for government control of social networks during the next elections (a law supported by President Morales and the ruling party)
- Pagina Siete, 28 March 2016Five employees of the state company for coca leaf (ENACO), in the Puno region, are arrested after robbing and kidnapping a coca leaf trader
- RPP, 22 March 2016Secretive corporation (Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals) that uses cocaine extracted for coca leaves (which are sold to Coca Cola) paid zero taxes in 2015.
- Natural News, 21 March 2016Colombia's big comeback - farmers moving from coca leaf to cacao.
- Christian Science Monitor, 20 March 2016Questioning the myth of the profitability of growing coca leaf
- La Silla Vacia, 18 March 2016In the Southwest Colombia region of Tumaco, the government of Colombia to initiate an experimental program to eradicate coca leaf.
- InSight Crime, 18 March 2016Coffee or coca? Colombian farmers face a difficult choice.
- Latin Correspondent, 14 March 2016President Morales declares that coca leaf from the Yungas is the best in Bolivia.
- La Razon, 13 March 2016Bolivia celebrates the day of coca chewing (photos)
- Los Tiempos, 12 March 2016Coca leaf growers in the Chapare (Bolivia) want to increase their legal cultivation from 12,000 to 20,000 hectares.
- El Diario, 04 March 2016Former coca leaf plantations in Colombia are given a new purpose by funding from the European Union.
- EurActiv, 04 March 2016UN reports on decreasing amounts of coca leaf being cultivated in South America, but growing cocaine consumption
- Pagina Siete, 03 March 2016UN reports on decreasing amounts of coca leaf being cultivated in South America, but growing cocaine consumption
- El Deber, 02 March 2016Bolivia maintains its rhythm of erradication of coca leaf plants
- El Deber, 02 March 2016Colombia recovers first place in the production of coca leaf
- El Deber, 02 March 2016Northern Bolivian coca growers (Adepcoca) and government trying to increase the legal sales of coca leaf.
- La Razon, 01 March 2016What would happen if the government of Colombia, instead of destroying cultivations of coca, bought the coca leaf supplies?
- La Silla Vacia, 29 February 2016The government of Bolivia seeks to eradicate 6000 hectares of coca leaf
- La Razon, 27 February 201630 coca growers in Peru (from Alto Huallaga and VRAEM) are running for Congress in elections, some financed by drug traffickers.
- El Comercio, 16 February 2016Coca leaf farmers in the Yungas continue to protest, demanding referendum over failed government promises for new services, and over failed discussions to increase the acreage of coca plantings in the Yungas versus Chapare
- Pagina Siete, 15 February 2016Coca leaf farmers in the Yungas sign agreement with the government, and end their blockade of the highway, in return for more government services such as roadway constructions, a new technology center and better medical services
- La Razon, 14 February 2016For third day, coca leaf farmers block highway between La Paz and the Yungas, with 800 cars and trucks trapped on the highway
- El Deber, 13 February 2016Coca leaf farmers in the Yungas (Bolivia) block roadway to La Paz, with 17 arrested from coca growers union (Adepcoca), while making demands for more social services from the government
- La Razon, 10 February 2016Plan Colombia's mixed legacy: coca thrives but peace deal may be on the horizon
- The Guardian, 03 February 2016Colombia is preparing for peace, but so are its coca drug traffickers.
- Washington Post, 02 February 2016UN drug control office (UNODC) to quanitfy the cultivation of coca in the northern part of La Paz province.
- El Diario, 25 January 2016President Evo Morales of Bolivia returns to the Chapare region to do a bit of coca leaf harvesting.
- El Deber, 03 January 2016President Evo Morales of Bolivia announces "battle" to fight for the decriminalization of coca.
- Los Tiempos, 02 January 2016Cocaleros from the Chapare region of Bolivia, the Six Federations, meet with President Morales in Cochabamba to review the weaknesses of the government
- La Razon, 27 December 2015Cocaleros from the Chapare region of Bolivia, the Six Federations, meet with President Morales in Cochabamba to review the management of coca farming in their region.
- Los Tiempos, 26 December 2015Cocaleros from the Chapare region of Bolivia, the Six Federations, start efforts across their country to support the campaign to change the constitution to allow the re-election of President Morales.
- La Razon, 26 December 2015Italian police discover coca tea being sold illegally in Italy for many years.
- The Telegraph, 25 December 2015The government of Bolivia expects to reduce coca farming to 20,000 hectares by the end of 2015, down from as much as 56,000 hectares in the 1990s
- La Razon, 19 December 2015United Nations salutes the achievements in the elimination of illegal coca growing in Bolivia.
- El Deber, 12 December 2015President Morales of Bolivia announces French scientists will support the industrialization of coca
- La Razon, 03 December 2015Coca growers intend to buy radio and newspaper in Cochabamba (Bolivia)
- El Deber, 27 November 2015In Bolivia, unlikely outlaws: indigenous coca farmers as indigenous advocates.
- DEVEX, 25 November 2015What you should know about the coca leaf, beyond its criminalization
- Lamula (Peru), 22 November 2015Mauricio Macri, opposition candidate in the presidential elections in Argentina, chews coca leaf on the campaign trail.
- New York Times, 20 November 2015Coca farmer killed in revolt against crops eradication in Argelia (Cauca), a municipality in the southwest of Colombia.
- Colombia Reports, 20 November 2015In Pery, coca growers of the VRAEM region insist that their coca plantings not be erradicated
- InfoRegion, 19 November 2015Residents of the South Yungas (Bolivia) burning forest land to create terrain for coca growing
- El Diario, 19 November 2015Bolivia is running out of space to store seizures of illegal coca leaf, now with 3 million pounds in rented space
- InSight Crime, 13 November 2015Will the proposed law from the U.S. Senate lead to more extraditions of drug traffickers from South America?
- InsightCrime, 13 November 2015"The potential market for legal coca leaf products is the same as or greater than that of drug trafficking" - Alfredo Menacho, director of Wawasana
- Lamula (Peru), 11 November 2017President Morales urges coca growers of the Chapare to continue to help support the economy
- Los Tiempos, 01 November 2015U.S. Senate proposes law to make it easier for the U.S. Justice Department to request extradition of drug traffickers from Colombia, including coca growers
- El Colombiano, 15 October 2015There are a growing number of deaths and misuses of prescription opioids in the United States
- Fox News, 14 October 2015Government of Bolivia seeks to erradicate 11,000 hectares of illegal coca farming in 2015
- La Razon, 13 October 2015Sugar cane growers in Bermejo (Tarija province of Bolivia) are switching from sugar cane to coca leaf, due to lack of government support for alternative crops
- El Deber, 11 October 2015Colombia announces a plan to support coca growers who switch to alternative crops
- New York Times, 22 September 2015United Nations drug control office (UNODC) requests better control of the legal coca leaf market in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 18 September 2015United Nations drug control office (UNODC) requests better control of the legal coca leaf market in Bolivia
- ErBol, 18 September 2015Bolivia considers new taxes on coca leaf farmers, to provide a new source of revenue for the government as oil revenues decrease
- El Diario, 16 September 2015The White House blacklisted Bolivia for growing coca while US states legally sell illegal marijuana.
- Vice News, 16 September 201511 countries in Latin America support the idea of Bolivia to promote the commerce of coca leaf and its derivatives
- El Deber, 11 September 2015Editorial: Bolivia needs to measure more accurately its growth of illegal coca, to better reduce these illegal cultivations
- La Razon, 06 September 2015Colombia promises to reduce the farming of coca leaf near the Venezuelan border in Catatumbo
- Colombia Reports, 04 September 2015Over 500,000 pineapple offshoots to replace in coca plants in the VRAEM region of Peru
- Freshplaza, 01 September 2015The first Coca Technology Fair in Bolivia is held in Santa Cruz
- El Deber, 30 August 2015CocaCola still has the best taste for its use of coca leaves that have been decocainized
- BGR, 24 August 2015United States is willing to analyze its method for measuring coca growth in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 26 August 2015United States is willing to analyze its method for measuring coca growth in Bolivia
- El Diario, 26 August 2015United States is pressured to analyze its method for measuring coca growth in Bolivia
- La Razon, 26 August 2015Editorial: the increase of coca growing in Bolivia is not the problem [to be discussed], but rather the chain of production of illegal drugs
- Los Tiempos, 25 August 2015Opinion: We are [Bolivia] a coca farming country, as is our economy
- El Diario, 25 August 2015United Nations Drug Control Office does not recognize the method used by the DEA to measure coca growth in Bolivia
- El Diario, 25 August 2015United Nations Drug Control Office requests that Bolivia and the United States correlate their data on coca growth
- La Razon, 25 August 2015In Bolivia, the coca leaf diverted to the illegal market dropped between 2010 and 2014, from 65% to 40%
- La Razon, 24 August 2015President Evo Morales challenges the United States to verify its data on the growth of coca leaf in Bolivia
- La Razon, 24 August 2015United States says Bolivia is growing 35,000 hectares of coca, a claim that Bolivia rejects
- La Razon, 23 August 2015Tensions revive between Bolivia and the United States after U.S. report on coca growing in Bolivia
- El Deber, 23 August 2015Government of Bolivia: the United States persists in discrediting our anti-drug fight
- Pagina Siete, 23 August 2015How Bolivia became a drug war success story -- after ousting the DEA
- Fusion, 19 August 2015How Bolivia got smart and convinced poor farmers to grow less coca.
- Vice, 19 August 2015UN Office of Drug Control reports that 60% of the coca leaf grown in Bolivia is used for legal purposes
- El Diario, 18 August 2015Eradication of coca plantations means misery for some of the farmers of Peru
- Fox News, 17 August 2015Eradication creates misery for the coca farmers of Peru.
- New York Times, 17 August 2015Government in Bolivia resumes the eradication of coca plants in national parks, removing 800 hectares in two parks in Cochabamba
- Los Tiempos, 13 August 2015Why sugar and soy and palm oil farming is worse for the forests of Colombia than is coca farming
- New Scientist, 09 August 2015Coca growers in La Asunta (Yungas, Bolivia) fight with municipal leaders over fears that they will not be included in the allocations of the new coca law
- ErBol, 09 August 2015Bolivia is growing about 25,000 hectares of coca a year (with a goal to reduce to 20,000 hectares), while destroying about 10,000 hectares a year
- La Razon, 07 August 2015Industrialization of coca grown in Bolivia only requires 46 hectares per eyar
- El Deber, 31 July 2015Emmanuel Hondrat (of the EU): it was impossible to see coca as a supplement to income
- El Deber, 26 July 2015Chapare coca growers diversify to change their lives
- El Deber, 26 July 2015Colombia is growing more coca leaf than Peru, according to the latest U.N. report, 69,000 hectares versus 42,900 hectares
- New York Times, 15 July 2015Government of Bolivia discusses with Colombia a model to reduce illegal plantings of coca leaf
- La Razon, 14 July 2015UN Office of Drug Control to present annual report on coca growing in Peru
- Andina News, 13 July 2015Coca growers from Arapato, Coripata, in the Yungas (Bolivia), block strategic roadway for the region, protesting lack of support from Vice Ministry of Coca
- Los Tiempos, 06 July 2015Coca growers from Arapato, Coripata, in the Yungas, block strategic roadway for the region, protesting lack of support from Vice Ministry of Coca
- La Razon, 06 July 2015Coca growers from Arapato, Coripata, in the Yungas, block strategic roadway for the region, protesting lack of support from Vice Ministry of Coca
- Pagina Siete, 06 July 2015Coca leaf production in Colombia has risen 44%, mostly in areas controlled by the FARC guerrillas
- BBC, 02 July 2015The negative health consequences of aerial spraying of coca crops with glyphosate in Colombia
- Center for Global Development, 29 June 2015Pope Francis wants to chew coca leaf when he arrives in La Paz, to counter the effects of high altitude
- BBC, 29 June 2015Pope Francis wants to chew coca leaf when he arrives in La Paz, to counter the effects of high altitude
- La Razon, 29 June 2015Pope Francis wants to chew coca leaf when he arrives in La Paz, to counter the effects of high altitude
- Prensa, 29 June 2015Pope Francis wants to chew coca leaf when he arrives in La Paz, to counter the effects of high altitude
- El Diario, 29 June 2015Tropical coca growers in Bolivia (the federations of Cochabamba) assume that Evo Morales will run for president in 2020 (which requires a change to the Constitution)
- ErBol Digital, 28 June 2015Coca growers of the six federations of Cochabamba insist on the government legalizing their growing of 7000 hectares of coca
- ErBol, 24 June 2015Coca growers of the six federations of Cochabamba analyzing the idea of paying a 5 boliviano tax on sales of coca leaf
- ErBol, 23 June 2015Legal experts say that coca growers should pay a value added tax of 13%, and not less than 1% as proposed by way of a five boliviano tax on a 50 pound bag of coca leaf
- Pagina Siete, 21 June 2015Coca growers from the Yungas region propose a five boliviano tax on a 50 pound bad of coca leaf
- Pagina Siete, 21 June 2015Recalling the 1994 march of the coca growers, and its political impact
- El Diario, 21 June 2015Coca growers of the Yungas discussing with the government on how to pay taxes on their legal coca leaves
- La Razon, 19 June 2015Coca growers of the Chapare region can't pay taxes on sales of their leaves, because their leaves are illegal
- El Diario, 19 June 2015President Evo Morales promises to build the coca growers of the Yungas a new headquarter for $400,000
- El Deber, 19 June 2015Economists and analysts say Bolivia should define the legal limits of coca growing, before imposing taxes
- Los Tiempos, 18 June 2015The Prime Minister of Bolivia says taxes on sales of coca leaf will only be for legal harvesting of coca leaves
- La Razon, 18 June 2015What is the optimal way to impose taxes of legal coca growing?
- El Diarrio, 18 June 2015President Morales says that coca growers are still discussing with the Finance Ministry about a new tax on sales of coca leaf
- La Razon, 17 June 2015Finance Minister of Bolivia, Luis Arce, says proposed law to tax the sales of coca leaf has not been sent to the Legislature
- El Deber, 16 June 2015Coca growing associations in Bolivia have not reached consensus on proposed law to apply a tax to sales of coca leaf
- Pagina Siete, 16 June 2015Coca growers of the Six Federations of Tropic of Cochabamba are willing to pay a tax on sales of coca leaf, but want details of proposed law
- La Razon, 16 June 2015Coca growers of La Paz province, Adepcoca, are willing to pay a tax on sales of coca leaf, but want details of proposed law
- La Razon, 16 June 2015Government of Bolivia preparing change to the laws for legal coca sales, to standardize the tax on legal sales of coca leaf
- La Razon, 15 June 2015Government of Bolivia preparing change to the laws for legal coca sales, to standardize the tax on legal sales of coca leaf
- Pagina Siete, 15 June 2015In Oruro (Bolivia), there are legally sold each month between 500 and 700 taques (50 pound bags) of coca leaves
- La Razon, 09 June 2015Colombia is struggling to support farmers in their efforts to grow food products other than coca
- New York Times, 02 June 2015The new governor of La Paz province, Felix Patzi, will seek some of the fees paid to the national government by coca growers in the Yungas
- La Razon, 02 June 2015The new governor of La Paz province, Felix Patzi, will seek some of the fees paid to the national government by coca growers in the Yungas
- Pagina Siete, 02 June 2015The new governor of La Paz province, Felix Patzi, will seek some of the fees paid to the national government by coca growers in the Yungas
- El Diario, 02 June 2015The Ministry of Agriculture in Peru donates 150,000 coffee saplings to coca growers in the VRAEM
- Peru This Week, 25 May 2015The coca growers of Cochabamba propose law to boost the legal production of coca leaf, and seek support of coca growers from the Yungas
- La Razon, 22 May 2015Decriminalization, the change in focus in the war against drugs.
- Los Tiempos, 18 May 2015Latin American countries are increasingly resisting the U.S. approach to the failed war on drugs
- New York Times, 16 May 2015The futility of the war to eradicate coca growing
- Economist, 16 May 2015U.S. accepts the decision of Colombia to stop the fumigation of coca fields with glyphosate, a herbicide that can cause cancer
- Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2015Colombia decides to stop the fumigation of coca fields with glyphosate, a herbicide that can cause cancer
- New York Times, 15 May 2015Colombia decides to stop the fumigation of coca fields with glyphosate, a herbicide that can cause cancer
- Wall Street Journal, 15 May 2015The European Union will give Bolivia $68 million dollars over five years, to fight illegal drugs and promote alternative development in coca growing regions
- Pagina Siete, 14 May 2015Butterflies that eat coca leaves are proposed to replace herbicides in Colombia
- Associated Press, 12 May 2015The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, orders the suspension of the use of glyphosate to eradicate coca plants, after the WHO declares the chemical to be carcinogenic
- Pagina Siete, 10 May 2015Opposition candidate, a coca grower, has his allotment of coca (one cato, about 1600 squares meters) eradicated by anti-drug police
- La Razon, 09 May 2015Opposition candidate, a coca grower, has his allotment of coca (one cato, about 1600 squares meters) eradicated by anti-drug police
- Pagina Siete, 09 May 2015Opposition candidate, a coca grower, has his allotment of coca (one cato, about 1600 squares meters) eradicated by anti-drug police
- Los Tiempos, 09 May 2015More land in Colombia is used to grow coca leaf, according to the United States
- New York Times, 07 May 2015President Morales should annul the sanctions against coca growers in the Chapare who voted for the opposition
- La Razon, 03 May 2015Laid-off textile workers in Bolivia, we all know, will end up growing coca
- El Diario, 03 May 2015Coca growers punished for defecting from the MAS party, will defend their coca growing allotments in Cochabamba
- Pagina Siete, 01 May 2015Suspending the fumigation of coca leaf plants with glyphosate is not easy in Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 30 April 2015Political opposition in Bolivia objects to coca growers losing their permits, if they support opposition political parties
- ErBol, 29 April 2015The Ministry of Health in Colombia recommends banning the use of a herbicide that kills the coca plant, but also causes cancer
- Int. Business Times, 28 April 2015In Bolivia, coca growers in the Yungas say coca from the Chapare is not consumable, and thus should not be legalized
- Pagina Siete, 28 April 2015Ten coca growers in Cochabamba expelled from the union of coca growers, and lose their permits to grow coca, for supporting an opposition party
- Pagina Siete, 29 April 2015Ten coca growers in Cochabamba expelled from the union of coca growers, and lose their permits to grow coca, for supporting an opposition party
- Los Tiempos, 25 April 2015In Cochabamaba (Bolivia), members of the union for coca growers, who do not vote for the candidates of the government party, will be expelled from the union and lose their allotment to grow and sell coca
- Los Tiempos, 25 April 2015In Bolivia, a proposed law will increase the amount of coca grown to 20,000 hectares
- Los Tiempos, 24 April 2015Bolivia resists global pressure to do away with its coca crop
- The Guardian, 24 April 2015The government of Peru allocates $512 million to develop the VRAEM region where coca is grown
- Peru This Week, 21 April 2015Farmers in the VRAEM region of Peru are struggling to grow crops other than coca because lack of government support and good roads
- El Comercio, 13 April 2015Government of Bolivia to invest US $67 million to develop technology to manufacture lithium batteries
- La Razon, 02 April 2015The prime minister of Bolivia explains how the government wants to seek foreign markets for coca products
- La Razon, 21 March 2015Less than 1% of Bolivians use cocaine
- Los Tiempos, 19 March 2015The government in Bolivia seeks to have the use of coca leaf depenalized around the world
- La Razon, 13 March 2015The price of quinua in Bolivia has dropped 73% in the last 4 months, due to imports of cheaper quinua from Peru, quinua being an alternative to coca
- La Razon, 11 March 2015The quinua from Bolivia is losing its competitiveness in global markets
- El Diario, 11 March 2015Bolivian government will invest $953,000 to build a manufacturing plant to remove cocaine from coca leaves, to create products for export
- Eju.tv, 06 March 2015Bolivia reduces by 10.8% the cultivation of coca leaf from 2012 to 2013
- Pagina Siete, 04 March 2015Cultivation of coca leaf in 3 countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Peru) drops by one-third from 2002 to 2013
- La Razon, 04 March 2015Peru is finding it difficult to convert coca fields in the VRAEM to other crops
- El Comercio, 02 March 2015Peru is finding it difficult to convert coca fields in the VRAEM to other crops
- Peru This Week, 02 March 2015Candy producers in Bolivia want government help to find new export markets, after losses due to problems with Venezuela
- El Diario, 01 March 2015Price of coca leaf in the legal markets (controlled by Adepcoca) rises 30% to 1200 bolivianos ($170) for a 50 pound bag
- La Prensa, 27 February 2015Adepcoca announces that 15,000 people will celebrate Coca Chewing Day in La Paz on March 12th
- Opinion (Bo), 24 February 2015Peru declares a no-fly zone, over the VRAEM region, where coca leaf is grown
- World War 4 Report, 18 February 2015Due to infested coffee plants, farmers in Peru growing more coca leaf
- Peru This Week, 16 February 2015Coca growers from Cochabamba will support the ruling party candidates (MAS) in upcoming elections
- La Prensa (Bo), 15 February 2015Could cocaine by the next medical treatment for depression?
- Voxxi, 14 February 2015Alternative agriculture products are displacing some coca farming in the Yungas of Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 09 February 2015In Peru, the government has not reduced the acreage of illegal coca in the VRAEM
- El Comercio, 05 February 2015Opinion: how to integrate coca farming and food farming in Bolivia?
- El Diario, 01 February 2015Alcohol and cigarettes are bigger health risks to a population than use of cocaine, amphetamine or marijuana
- Scientific Reports, 30 January 2015Questioning the inclusion of coca growers in a farming summit in Bolivia
- El Dia, 29 January 2015Police in Bolivia will only eradicate 10,000 hectares of coca leaf in this year
- La Razon, 20 January 2015Coca growers in Bolivia will lose their allocations if they have excessive cultivations
- Pagina Siete, 20 January 2015Radars detect illegal plantations of coca in national parks in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 20 January 2015Producers of Cochabamba will exhibit and will distribute coca and coca products at the Dakar 2015 rally
- Bolivia.com, 08 January 2015In Bolivia, coca growers of Shinahota demand freedom for three leaders
- Los Tiempos, 21 December 2014A judge in Bolivia sends to jail 2 coca growers for disruptive behavior in meeting with president Evo Morales
- La Razon, 28 December 2014Bolivia wants to reduce coca growing from 23,000 to 20,000 hectares
- La Razon, 27 December 2014Former coca growers in Monzon Valley (Huanaco, Peru) receive funds from the government
- Peru This Week, 26 December 2014Bolivian government requests projects to treat confiscated illegal coca leaf
- La Razon, 24 December 2014Lack of budget impedes the government (of Bolivia) of incinerating 3 million pounds of seized coca leaf
- La Razon, 22 December 2014President Evo Morales begins eradication of 40 hectares of illegal coca in Carrasco National Park
- La Razon, 21 December 2014Coca growers of Vandiola (Bolivia) end hunger strike
- El Diario, 20 December 2014In 2014, Peru destroyed more than 31,000 hectares of coca plants
- Latin Correspondent, 19 December 2014The coca leaf - satanized from colonial times
- Informador, 14 December 2014Coca, the sacred leaf of the Inca, Nazca and Mochica cultures
- NTR Zacatecas, 13 December 2014Opinion: more or less coca growing in Bolivia?
- Los Tiempos, 12 December 2014In Bolivia, President Evo Morales rejects coca plantations in the Yungas de Vandiola
- Los Tiempos, 11 December 2014In Bolivia, government breaks off discussions with coca growers from the Yungas, who are seeking to grow more coca leaf
- La Razon, 10 December 2014In Bolivia, government breaks off discussions with coca growers from the Yungas, who are seeking to grow more coca leaf
- Los Tiempos, 10 December 2014Coca leaf producers in the Yungas (Bolivia) demand the government permit them to grow larger areas, 785 catos, of coca leaf (an increase of 49 catos)
- Los Tiempos, 09 December 2014A Bolivian artist, Efe Quispe, intends to break the taboo about the coca leaf with her works
- Radio Nacional de Colombia, 27 November 2017Evo Morales and coca growers agree to a limit of 20,000 hectares, with no payment of taxes for production
- EJU.tv, 18 November 2014Fifth International Forum on Coca Leaf held in Ecuador between October 29 and 30
- El Diario, 18 November 2014The controversy of the coca leaf
- Pharmaceutical Journal, 17 November 2014A senator in the Colombian legislature demonstrates a tea made from coca leaf and marijuana
- El Espectador, 11 November 2014Lack of government support is forcing coffee growers in Bolivia to switch to growing coca leaf
- Pagina Siete, 10 November 2014The coca vice-ministry in Bolivia has confiscated two million pounds of poor quality coca leaf, and doesn't know what to do with it all
- La Razon, 10 November 2014Banana growers in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia receive so little money from multinational exporters that they have no choice but to grow coca
- Ground Report, 09 November 2014Government in Bolivia adds coca cakes to food basket given to pregnant women and newborn babies during their first year of life
- Pagina Siete, 08 November 2014Medical study: sugar can be as addictive as heroin
- KeroNews23, 07 November 2014The tough coca bush will not suffer much from global warming
- Scientific America, 07 November 2014The first billionarie in Nicaragua is head of the country's sugar cartel
- Bloomberg, 05 November 2014Farmers in 16 provinces of Cochabamba (Bolivia) elect former coca grower as their candidate for Governor of the province
- EJU.tv, 07 November 2014Opinion: seeking medical uses of our sacred coca leaf in Bolivia
- El Diario, 04 November 2014In Apolo (Bolivia) in 2013, the government erradicated coca in a zone of traditional cultivation, which is allowed by law
- Pagina Siete, 02 November 2014Bolivian government earns about $50,000 per month from taxes on legal sales of coca leaf
- EJU.tv, 31 October 2014The hard-hitting criticism of John Oliver is correct about the dangers of the sugar cartel
- Washington Post, 27 October 2014VIDEO: The hard-hitting criticism of John Oliver about the dangers of the sugar cartel
- Last Week Tonight, 26 October 2014Assessing the feasibility of increased proliferation of the coca plant
- RUSI, 13 October 2014Coca grower in Choro Grande (Yungas, Bolivia) is killed by local gold miners
- Los Tiempos, 11 October 2014Prohibitionist insanity about coca leaf is across the board from candidates for the presidency in Bolivia
- Panam Post, 07 October 2014Opposition presidential candidate in Bolivia promises to respect the "good" coca produced in the Yungas
- Los Tiempos, 06 October 2014Paying a tax on coca leaf sales in Bolivia - ending tax evasion, or helping to make the illegal to be legal?
- El Diario, 04 October 2014Opposition politician in Bolivia wants to support coca grown in the Yungas (which is consumed) and eliminate coca grown in the Chapare (used for drugs)
- La Razon, 03 October 2014In Bolivia, coca growers in Yungas region concerned about taxes on coca leaves being more favorable to coca growers in Chapare
- Pagina Siete, 03 October 2014In Bolivia, coca growers in Yungas region concerned about taxes on coca leaves being more favorable to coca growers in Chapare
- ERBOL, 02 October 2014Future law for coca will permit farming of 15,000 hectares in Bolivia
- Prensa (Bo), 01 October 2014Government in Bolivia seeks to define a tax on coca sales, after proposals from two associations of coca growers
- La Razon, 01 October 2014Coca growers in Bolivia (Adepcoca) propose a tax of 2 bolivianos for selling 50 pounds (one taque) of coca leaf
- La Razon, 30 September 2014While many countries in the world are legalizing marijuana, and maybe other drugs, President Evo Morales is only advocating legalization of coca
- Los Tiempos, 29 September 2014Campaign platforms for the political parties of Bolivia with regards to the future of coca farming
- La Razon, 29 September 2014Editorial: time for the Americas to start decriminalizing some drugs, such as marijuana and coca leaf
- Pagina Siete (Bolivia), 26 September 2014Campaign platforms for the political parties of Bolivia with regards to the future of coca farming
- Pagina Siete, 29 September 2014Editorial: time for the Americas to start decriminalizing some drugs, such as marijuana and coca leaf
- Pagina Siete (Bolivia), 26 September 2014In Bolivia, opposition candidate for the presidency pledges to have the government control coca farming in the Chapare
- La Razon, 22 September 2014In Bolivia, political parties raise several options for new legislation on coca leaf farming
- Los Tiempos, 18 September 2014Discovery of the first coca plantation in Mexico could upend the cocaine business
- VICE News, 15 September 2014Tax of 5 Bolivianos (for 50 pounds) on coca leaf will support the anti-drug fight in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 12 September 2014Coca growers in the Yungas (Bolivia) reject paying taxes of 5 Bolivianos per 50 pounds
- La Razon, 11 September 2014Government of Peru to invest 1.5 billion soles (about $750 million) in the main coca growing region, the VRAEM
- CronicaViva, 11 September 2014Coca growers in the Yungas (Bolivia) reject paying taxes of 5 Bolivianos per 50 pounds
- Los Tiempos, 11 September 2014Coca growers in Cochabamba (Bolivia) agree to pay taxes of 5 Bolivianos per 50 pounds
- Los Tiempos, 10 September 2014Editorial - the calamity of falling coffee production in Bolivia, due to low profits as compared to the farming of coca leaf
- El Diario, 08 September 2014Yet another study finds that marijuana can help people who are afflicted with Alzheimer's disease
- The WeedBlog, 02 September 2014Coffee production in the Yungas is down 66% in the last ten years
- El Diario, 30 August 2014Caballococha, a new growing coca growing region of Peru similar to the Vraem river valley region
- Inforegion, 29 August 2014Raising coca growing limits to 20,000 hectares, the task of the legislative candidates from the Cochabamba region of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 22 August 2014600,000 pounds of illegal coca leave were seized so far in the current fiscal year en Bolivia
- ERBOL, 21 August 2014Coca growers in Vandiola (Bolivia) wait for a meeting with President Morales to discuss the topic of acreage of coca growing
- Los Tiempos, 16 August 2014Coca growers in the Vandiola area of the Yungas (Bolivia) reject a government proposal and break-off their discussions
- Los Tiempos, 12 August 2014Coca leaf retailers in La Paz request the government create a state marketplace for coca leaf, saying Adepcoca facilities are unsafe and unclean
- Pagina Siete, 11 August 2014President Evo Morales announces the exportation from Bolivia of medicines by 2025
- La Razon, 07 August 2014President Evo Morales is re-elected as director of federation of coca growers
- Opinion (Bolivia), 28 July 2014Challenging the myths about production of coca paste in the Chapare
- AIN Bolivia, 22 July 2014Community control of coca farming in Bolivia
- AIN Bolivia, 22 July 2014Coca grower from Cochabamba is new director Digcoin
- ERBOL, 22 July 2014The poporo and the coca leaf of the indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada of Colombia
- Funtayrona, 16 July 2014Cocaine paste production in the Chapare - can you get rich?
- AIN Bolivia, 22 March 2014President Evo Morales delivers an association headquarters to coca growers of Oruro
- La Razon, 02 August 2014Editorial: allowing coca farmers to sell more big bags of coca leaves (taques) leads to more demand which leads to more production - is that what Bolivia wants?
- El Diario, 31 July 2014Coca growers in the Chapare (Bolivia) are nervous and upset after nine years that President Morales has not legalized their coca growing
- El Diario, 30 July 2014The future of coca in Bolivia should be an important campaign issue in this year's elections
- Los Tiempos, 30 July 2014Government of Bolivia hopes to certify international companies to export Bolivian coca products to Ecuador
- La Razon, 30 July 2014Government of Peru fails to eradicate coca growing in the VRAEM region
- Radio Publica, 29 July 2014Is tea the new "coffee" of the United States?
- Economist, 28 July 2014Wholesalers of coca leaf in La Paz will be able to sell 8 large bags (taques) of coca leaf every eight days (limit is now six), with 1.2 million pounds of coca leaf wholesaled now each month
- Pagina Siete, 25 July 2014Political positions of presidential candidates in Bolivia with regards to coca
- El Diario, 25 July 2014Editorial: the contradictory policies of the promotion, while eradicating, coca in Bolivia must be resolved
- Los Tiempos, 24 July 2014Legal sellers of coca leaf in Bolivia say that "much" coca leaf is diverted towards illegal activities
- Pagina Siete, 24 July 2014Yungas coca growers in Vandiola demand the government legalize more catos of coca in this traditional area of cultivation
- Los Tiempos, 23 July 2014In Bolivia, the government approved a resolution that permits increasing the quota of selling coca sales by coca producers, from six to eight 'taques' (each of 50 pounds of leaves)
- Los Tiempos, 22 July 2014In Bolivia, the government approved a resolution that permits increasing the quota of selling coca sales by coca producers, from six to eight 'taques' (each of 50 pounds of leaves)
- Pagina Siete, 22 July 2014In Bolivia, the government approved a resolution that permits increasing the quota of selling coca sales by coca producers, from six to eight 'taques' (each of 50 pounds of leaves)
- La Razon, 22 July 2014In Bolivia, after elections, president Morales plans to legalize having one cato of coca for growing
- Pagina Siete, 21 July 2014In Bolivia, after elections, president Morales plans to legalize having one cato of coca for growing
- Los Tiempos, 21 July 2014In Bolivia, after elections, president Morales plans to legalize having one cato of coca for growing
- La Razon, 21 July 2014World Health Organization calls for the decriminalization of drug use
- TDPF News, 19 July 2014President Evo Morales (Bolivia) says that all can campaign in the Chapare
- La Razon, 18 July 2014Operations stop at Pan American's mine in Potosi (Bolivia) as workers go on strike after chewing coca was banned
- Mining Technology, 17 July 2014Tuto (opposition candidate in Bolivia) says he will campaign in the Chapare (depsite threats) and propose controls for coca production
- Los Tiempos, 17 July 2014Coca growers warn the opposition (in Bolivia) that they will not be permitted to campaign in the Chapare
- Los Tiempos, 16 July 2014In 2014, Peru invested US $150 million in alternative development in coca valleys
- El Peruano, 15 July 2014Yungas coca growers in Bolivia request resignations of Felipe Cáceres and Modesto Condori (DIGCOIN)
- ERBOL, 12 July 2014In Colombia, rural farmers don't have an alternative to coca growing
- El Mercurio, 12 July 2014Coca growers in Yungas region of Bolivia demand the expansion of the commercialization of a greater quantity of coca leaf
- La Razon, 12 July 2014In Bolivia, civic groups demand that coca growers pay taxes according to the law
- FM Bolivia, 02 July 2014Bolivia draws its own future for coca
- Periodistas en Espanol, 29 June 2014Coca growers near Cusco threaten new protests if government of Peru doesn't pay more for their coca leaf, as promised
- La Republica, 29 June 2014The government of Bolivia hopes to export coca tea to Ecuador and Cuba
- La Razon, 26 June 2014In Bolivia, the government is considering applying a tax to the sale of coca leaf, with coca producers in agreement
- La Razon, 25 June 2014United Nations considers obsolete Law 1008 of Bolivia that permits some coca farming
- La Razon, 25 June 2014In Bolivia, United Nations considers that it is urgent to modify Law 1008
- Pagina Siete, 25 June 2014In Bolivia, rising commercialization of the "sacred coca"
- Los Tiempos, 25 June 2014UN: Bolivia reduces from 25,300 to 23,000 the hectares of coca farming, and is on the road to the goal of 20,000 hectares
- La Razon, 23 June 2014Margarita Terán Gonzales, new leader of coca growers in Cochabamba in Bolivia
- La Razon, 22 June 2014The coca industrialization agency of Bolivia, DIGCOIN, seizes 3 million kilos of illegal coca leaf so far in 2014, which university labs convert to fertilizer
- Pagina Siete, 21 June 2014Factory for coca leaf products in La Paz (Villa El Carmen) opened in 2013 with machinery prodived by the government, is still not operating commercially
- La Razon, 21 June 2014In Bolivia, Yungas coca growers should each produce 1 cato (1600 sq. meters) of citrus fruits
- Entorno Intelligence, 18 June 2014MAS political party in Bolivia requests the government to suggest to the UN that coca leaf be decriminalized
- EJU TV, 17 June 2014Coca growers of Coripata (Bolivia) achieved recognition as a federation, and block traffic to the Yungas
- La Razon, 10 June 2014President of Peru, Ollanta Humala, was correct to fire the head of Peru's anti-drug agency, for launching a plan of forced eradication of coca
- Generaccion, 04 June 2014Government of Peru wants 5000 less hectares of coca grown in the Vraem, where are grown 60,000 hectares of coffee and 40,000 hectares of cacao
- Andina, 04 June 2014Peru to stop trying to eradicate coca leaf, and will promote other crops
- Wall Street Journal, 02 June 2014Government of Peru wants to eliminate 5000 of the 18000 hectares of coca farming in the Vraem
- Andina, 01 June 2014In Bolivia, the government will invest $87,000 for the design of the first center for scientific investigation which will benefit 34,000 Yungas families
- La Razon, 01 June 2014In Bolivia, Adepcoca manages the exportation of bimate to Ecuador
- La Razon, 31 May 2014United Kingdom will include revenues from sales of illegal cocaine in its count of the country's GDP
- Financial Times, 29 May 2014Italy will include revenues from sales of illegal cocaine in its count of the country's GDP
- Independent, 24 May 2014European Union will not support industrialization of coca in Bolivia
- El Diario, 19 May 2014Coca growers don't want eradication nor alternative crops in the Vraem (a region of Peru)
- InfoRegion (Peru), 18 May 2014En Peru, 8000 coca growers paralyzed the VRAEM protesting eradication, marching in Kimbiri
- Diario La Voz, 15 May 2014So many people in Britain (2%) use so much cocaine that it is now in the water supply
- Washington Post, 12 May 2014In the Catatumbo region of Colombia, coca is grown for survival
- Kaos en la Red, 09 May 2014Tocache, Peru - their transition from growing coca to growing cacao
- Peru This Week, 21 September 2012Peru: coca leaf, militarization and decriminalization of marijuana - an interview with Baldomero Cáceres Santa María
- Mariategui, 31 December 2009Ambassador William Brownfield of the United States promotes in Colombia a policy of fumigation and forced eradication of coca declared by the European Union as a failure in Afghanistan
- La Silla Vacia, 24 July 2009President Uribe gets it wrong again with proposal to crackdown on Colombia's coca growers
- Columbia Journal, 02 May 2009Five winners of the Nobel Prize in economics release a report "Ending the Drug Wars", published by London School of Economics
- LSE, 06 May 2014Babies exposed to coca alkaloids do not experience brain damage, but do experience brain damage due to poverty
- Deseret News, 02 May 2014Between 1997 and 2014, the European Union provided $166 million in funding to Bolivia to help coca growers in Bolivia to grow other products
- eju.tv, 19 April 2014In last ten years, U.S. has spent $10 billion in Afghanistan fighting opium, and completely failed, with opium production reaching a high in 2013
- Economist, 12 April 2014In Yungas region of Bolivia, citrus and coffee farming gradually being replaced by coca leaf growing
- Los Tiempos, 03 April 2014Bolivian coca growers protest in front of U.S. Embassy (in La Paz) that coca leaf is not a drug
- El Colombiano, 12 March 2014Bolivian government to call for debate on coca industrialization at UN meeting in Vienna
- La Razon, 12 March 2014Government of Bolivia announces advances in the medical use of coca with the help of Cuba
- Los Tiempos, 12 March 2014Coca growers celebrate national day of coca chewing in Bolivia
- La Razon, 11 March 2014UN Drug Control office document for release next week suggests for first time that some drugs be decriminalized
- Los Tiempos, 09 March 2014UN Drug Control office document for release next week suggests for first time that some drugs be decriminalized
- Panama America, 08 March 2014Government of Bolivia highlights UN's INCB report that Bolivia is making progress eradicating coca cultivation
- Los Tiempos, 07 March 2014Andean Parliament declares that coca leaf in its natural state as the "Ancestral and Cultural Heritage of the Andean People"
- Pagina Siete, 28 February 2014European Union asks for clarification on coca consumption in border areas of Bolivia
- La Razon, 20 February 2014U.S. Pentagon considers using electricity to stimulate troops' brains to supplement stimulants such as caffeine
- Boston Globe, 18 February 2014Bolivian political parties request report about old machines bought for a government manufacturing plant for coca tea installed in Adepcoca facilities in Villa Fatima section of La Paz
- Pagina Siete, 17 February 2014Horrible living conditions of 30,000 black/green tea plantation serfs in India
- New York Times, 14 February 2014Colombia's FARC rebel group and their support for coca industrialization and new medical/health uses
- Voice of Russia, 11 February 2014CL Trading (Hong Kong) now manufacturing Cocalero, an alcoholic drink (29%) made with cocaine-free coca flavoring
- SCMP, 07 February 2014Colombia's FARC guerilla group proposes that the Colombian government implement a policy that recognizes the medical benefits of coca leaf
- RT News, 24 January 2014In Bolivia, time to expand the national debate about coca policies
- Los Tiempos, 13 January 2014Bolivian government denounces those Venezuelans, Colombians and Peruvians growing coca in Bolivia's Apolo border region
- La Razon, 10 January 2014Bolivian government denounces those Venezuelans, Colombians and Peruvians growing coca in Bolivia's Apolo border region
- Los Tiempos, 10 January 2014While president of the G77+China, Evo Morales will champion the importance and beneficial uses of coca leaf
- La Razon, 07 January 2014In Bolivia, Evo Morales urges coca growers to not grow coca in the national parks
- La Razon, 05 January 2014The coca leaf massage - a new therapy from South American spas to relieve muscle ache
- Men's Journal, 03 January 2014Evo Morales will use his presidency of the G77 to promote the culture and medical uses of coca
- La Razon, 31 December 2013Evo Morales will use his presidency of the G77 to promote the culture and medical uses of coca
- Los Tiempos, 31 December 201355,000 families in Peru join program to farm crops other than coca leaf
- La Razon, 25 December 2013Editorial: the economy of coca is still mostly driven by illegal uses
- El Diario, 23 December 2013Government in Bolivia seeking to regulate traditional medicines
- La Prensa (BO), 22 December 2013South America needs co-ordinated response to combat scourge of cocaine
- The Guardian (UK), 17 December 2013Manufacturing Cerveza de Coca, coca beer, in Bolivia
- Ultimas Noticias, 12 December 2013U.N. Office of Drug Control (UNODC) to send Bolivia's country study of coca to Vienna for analysis
- El Diario, 08 December 2013UN Drug Control agency (UNODC) hopes recent government coca report in Bolivia will lead to a new policy for regulating coca farming
- La Razon, 06 December 2013Interview of Fabiola Piñacué, coca products entrepreneur in Bogota
- Rebellion, 03 December 2013Growing coca in Bolivia should not be at expense of growing food
- El Diario, 02 December 2013Colombia's Attorney General: Colombia can't unilaterally legalize cultivation of coca due to international consensus
- El Nuevo Herald, 02 December 2013Opinion: is there really an international market for industralizing coca in Bolivia?
- El Diario, 01 December 2013A visit to a hidden coca plantation in Peru
- BBC, 30 November 2013The racist lies behind the myth of coca's evilness
- Los Tiempos, 20 November 2013European Union is satisfied with Bolivia's report on coca, and will continue its financial support for 2014-2020
- Pagina Siete, 20 November 2013Bolivia's study of coca growth and use is unprecedented for its detailed data gathering and analysis
- Cambio (Bo), 18 November 2013Bolivian government study of coca use gathered detailed country data
- La Razon, 18 November 2013Opinion of former president Carlos Mesa Gisbert: properly managing the future of coca in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 17 November 2013Bolivia's agricultural innovation agency, INIAF, funding research to lower the costs of foods
- La Razon, 17 November 2013Bolivian Minister of Government Carlos Romero is interviewed about recent government report on coca growth
- La Razon, 17 November 2013Coca growers in Bolivia will debate about how much legal coca growing is needed
- Los Tiempos, 15 November 2013UN reminds Bolivia that export of coca, without removing alkaloids, is still in violation of the 1961 UN treaty
- La Razon, 15 November 2013UN reminds Bolivia that export of coca, without removing alkaloids, is still in violation of the 1961 UN treaty
- Pagina Siete, 15 November 2013Government of Bolivia plans to eliminate 10,000 hectares of coca farming by 2016
- La Razon, 15 November 2013Government of Bolivia plans to eliminate 10,000 hectares of coca farming by 2016
- Pagina Siete, 15 November 2013PDF file of results of Bolivian government study on legal use of coca
- Government of Bolivia, 14 November 2013Government of Bolivia affirms that changing coca laws is not on its agenda
- Pagina Siete, 14 November 2013Ruling MAS party in Bolivia wants to change law to increase coca growing to 20,000 hectares
- Pagina Siete, 14 November 2013OAS will look with "much attention" to coca industrialization in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 14 November 2013OAS will look with "much attention" to coca industrialization in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 14 November 201330% of people in Bolivia regularly use coca
- La Razon, 14 November 201330% of people in Bolivia regularly use coca
- La Prensa, 14 November 2013The agricultural sector in Bolivia demands to be able to grow more legal coca
- La Razon, 14 November 2013Bolivian government study concludes that there are 3 million consumers of coca products, which needs 14,700 hectares to supply
- Los Tiempos, 14 November 2013Bolivian government study concludes that there are 3 million consumers of coca products, which needs 14,700 hectares to supply
- La Razon, 13 November 2013Of 20,690 tons of coca leaf harvested, only 73 tons are used industrially, with 19,000 tons used in homes
- Pagina Siete, 14 November 2013Opinion: inconsistencies in government's report on coca growth and use
- Pagina Siete, 14 November 201358% of Bolivia's coca crop goes to traditional uses
- San Jose Mercury News, 13 November 2013Government study reports that traditional use of coca in Bolivia requires 14,700 hectares
- Los Tiempos, 13 November 2013Government study reports that traditional use of coca in Bolivia requires 14,700 hectares
- La Razon, 13 November 2013Government study reports that traditional use of coca in Bolivia requires 14,700 hectares
- Pagina Siete, 13 November 2013Modesto Condori is new head of coca industrialization agency (Digcoin) in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 12 November 2013Bolivian government downplays opposition gossip that new report shows only 6000 hectares of coca growing is needed
- La Razon, 12 November 2013Bolivian scientist Franklin Alcatraz says traditional consumption of coca in Bolivia only needs 8000 hectares
- eju.tv, 12 November 2013Coca tea and coca leaf chewing as one element in a strategy to reduce harmful effects of drug abuse
- Euronews, 11 November 2013Growing number of MAS ruling-party members supporting an increase in the legal acreage for coca growing in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 11 November 2013Growing number of MAS ruling-party members supporting an increase in the legal acreage for coca growing in Bolivia
- La Razon, 11 November 2013Next week, Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, releases study on consumption of coca in Bolivia
- La Razon, 10 November 2013Bolivian Minister of Government Carlos Romero: acreage for legal coca growing is not for political negotiation
- La Razon, 10 November 2013Cost of commercial coca license will remain at 1200 bolivianos for next five years
- La Razon, 08 November 2013Peasant workers' trade union (CSUCB) wants a new study of coca use in Bolivia conducted by consumers and producers, not consultants
- Pagina Siete, 07 November 2013Next Monday, coca growers will be shown government report on amount of hectares needed for legal coca growing
- Los Tiempos, 07 November 2013Minister of Government Romero says deadline for government study of legal coca use was a promise of previous governments of Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 04 November 2013Minister of Government Romero says deadline for government study of legal coca use was a promise of previous governments
- Los Tiempos, 04 November 2013Legal coca growers in Chapare need more legal support to prevent illegal plantings of coca
- La Razon, 04 November 2013Students in Northern Argentinian town win educational contest with a liquor made from coca leaves
- Los Andes (Ar), 03 November 2013Pijchea/akulliku (ball of coca to be chewed) is most common use of coca leaf, followed by coca tea
- Los Tiempos, 03 November 2013Guatemala's foreign minister, Fernando Carrera, calls for some drugs to be legalized to end drug trafficking
- Prensa Libre, 30 October 2013Coca growers of Caranavi and Apolo hope their third coca market, now with a temporary authorization, will be legalized under new law
- eju.tv, 30 October 2013In Bolivia, Head of governing ruling party, MAS' Eugenio Rojas, suggests that new coca law specify a varying level of legal coca production
- La Razon, 29 October 2013Coca growers in Yungas and Cochabamba to meet discuss how much more coca cultivation they will seek for their regions
- Los Tiempos, 29 October 2013Head of legal coca growers association (Adepcoca), Ernesto Cordero, complains of illegal coca market near their legal facilities in Villa Fatima
- Los Tiempos, 29 October 2013Arowana fish cultivation as an alternative to growing coca in the Colombian Amazon region
- Infosurhoy, 28 October 2013Bolivian economist Roberto Laserna says government should be more clear about its coca policies
- Pagina Siete, 27 October 2013Coca growers in Peru seeing profit and peace in switching from coco to cacao cultivation
- Peru 21, 27 October 2013Bolivian government supports legislative efforts to increase legal coca production to 20,000 hectares
- Pagina Siete, 26 October 2013Gumercindo Pucho, vice minister of coca development, says it is absurd to claim that Bolivia only needs 6,000 hectares of legal coca growth
- La Razon, 26 October 2013While coca growing dropped from 64,000 hectares in 2011 to 48,000 in 2012, in Colombia, many farmers just switched to illegal gold mining
- InfoSurHoy, 25 October 2013Head of MSM party says European Union report on coca states that Bolivia only needs 6,000 hectares of coca growth for local consumption
- La Razon, 25 October 2013Bolivian Senate considering increasing legal coca cultivation from 12,000 hectares to 20,000 hectares
- Pagina Siete, 24 October 2013Sharp rise in coca prices in Cochabamba, from US $200 to almost US $300 for a 50 pound sack/taque
- eju.tv, 24 October 2013How DEA policies, counter-intuitively, force many coca growers into the arms of drug traffickers
- Las Vegas Guardian, 20 October 2013Coca - the plant that feeds Peru, and the farmers that grow it
- THe Independent (UK), 18 October 2013Chewing coca leaf combats obesity
- Pagina Siete, 16 October 2013Lawyer Yuri Garamendi assume head of DIGCOIN, Bolivia's coca industrialization agency
- La Razon, 11 October 2013Bolivian ruling party deputies see need to improve the laws regulating the commercialization of coca leaf
- Los Tiempos, 08 October 2013UK Parliament members urged in report to lift ban on use of coca leaf
- The Independent (UK), 07 October 2013Remote Peruvian valley of Pichari is number one coca growing valley of the world
- Michigan Morning Sun, 07 October 2013Bolivia will send to Ecuador a proposal to export coca products
- La Razon, 06 October 2013President Morales hopes to sign agreement with Ecuador to export industrialied coca products, such as tea, to Ecuador
- La Razon, 05 October 2013Bolivia expects to sign agreement with Ecuador to export industrialied coca products, such as tea, to Ecuador
- La Razon, 04 October 2013Bolivia expects to sign agreement with Ecuador to export industrialied coca products, such as tea, to Ecuador
- Los Tiempos, 04 October 2013Amazon fruits and organic chocolate are taking over from coca in Colombia
- El Pais, 02 October 2013Licenses for selling coca leaf to rise from 600 to 1200 bolivianos
- La Razon, 01 October 2013Crushed coca leaves and quinoa is good for your skin
- Esquire, 01 October 2013Five reasons why efforts to fumigate coca are a failure in Colombia
- La Silla Vacia, 01 October 2013Foreign legalization of coca commercialization
- Bolivia Opinion, 28 September 2013Government promises to deliver report on coca consumption in October
- Los Tiempos, 27 September 2013UN says Bolivia is obligated to present study on national legal demand for coca for purposes such as chewing and medical consumption
- La Razon, 25 September 2013UN says Bolivia is obligated to present study on national legal demand for coca for purposes such as chewing and medical consumption
- Los Tiempos, 25 September 2013Bolivia's vice minister for drug control, Felipe Caceres, says coca consumption study will be ready in October
- La Razon, 25 September 2013Drug trafficking - another threat to Bolivia's Gran Chaco ecosystem
- Infosurhoy, 25 September 2013Peru now first in production of coca leaf (62,500 hectares), surpassing Colombia (48,000 hectares)
- ABC News, 25 September 2013Hypocrisy of U.S. decertifying Bolivia, but not Colombia or Peru, for its drug control efforts
- Andean Information Network, 20 September 2013Government and MAS party strongly criticizes U.S. government report that says Bolivia is failing to fight drug trafficking
- Los Tiempos, 15 September 2013U.S. condemns war on drugs in Bolivia - Bolivia says complaint is contradictory
- La Razon, 14 September 2013Better controls needed for use of pesticides in coca farming
- Los Tiempos, 2 September 2013UMSS Food Center study (done at request of MSM Senator Julio Salazar) shows only 2 percent of the 20 percent of coca protein are absorbed, low compared to soy protein absorption
- Los Tiempos, 2 September 2013European Union will support market for products derived from coca
- La Razon, 31 August 2013Colombia's fight against the coca trade
- IRIN News, 28 August 2013Illegal coca plantings discovered in Comarapa, close to Amboro national park, government worried about incursions of such plantings into national parks
- La Razon, 27 August 2013European Union will give $8 million to reduce demand for cocaine in the Andean Community
- La Razon, 23 August 2013Government studying outbreak of coca plant fungus to see where to move plantings
- La Razon, 23 August 2013UN Office of Drug Control will measure, in first half of 2014, Bolivia's capacity for cocaine production
- La Razon, 23 August 2013Bolivia touts coca flour as a way for cocaine addicts to kick the habit
- Fox News, 21 August 2013Bolivia plans effort to turn coca into a prestigious plant
- Prensa, 19 August 2013European Union will give Bolivia $33 million to diversify agriculture in Bolivia to reduce coca growing
- La Razon, 19 August 2013Bolivian government hopes to have coca leaf sales legalized in northern Argentina
- La Razon, 17 August 2013Foreign coca specialists admit that there are internal and external fears about sales of coca products
- Pagina Siete (pages 4-5), 16 August 2013Don Carmelo Flores, happy and healthy at 123 years of age, thanks to quinoa and coca
- La Razon, 16 August 2013Proposal to export coca leaf flour to use to treat cocaine addiction
- La Razon, 15 August 2013Fungus infecting coca plants may require coca farmers to change location of their plantings
- La Razon, 14 August 2013Government investigating why coca plants in Chapare are drying out, either due to fungus or pesticides
- La Razon, 14 August 2013For second year, coca production has dropped 7% (2400 hectares) in Bolivia
- La Razon, 06 August 201359% of the coca produced in Bolivia does not go to legal markets
- La Razon, 06 August 2013UN Office of Drug Control presents report on cultivation of coca in Bolivia
- La Razon, 05 August 2013President Morales seeks to export mate de coca to ALBA countries
- La Razon, 30 July 2013After $11 million investment by government, Ebococa coca manufacturing plant stands mostly idle due to lack of demand
- Economia Bolivia, 24 June 2013Profiting from pain in the U.S. - 240 million prescriptions for legal opioid drugs in 2012 with sales totalling $8.34 billion - legal drug cartels
- New York Times, 22 June 2013Coca toothpaste? Bolivia tries to drum up demand for 'legal' coca products
- Christian Science Monitor, 03 June 2013New Bolivian beer made from coca leaf
- New Zealand Herald, 09 May 2013Bolivian consumers reject coca-based foods because of the taste of coca-flavored foods
- The Telegraph (UK), 09 May 2013Bolivia's challenge: making coca palatable
- Associated Press, 08 May 2013The defined line between coca and cocaine
- Global Mail, 07 May 2013Government of Bolivia initiates new study about the legal uses of coca
- Prensa (Panama), 28 April 2013Mauricio Mamani Pocoaca: Coca-cocaine - between the irony and reality of few alternative uses
- Semanario Alternativas, 04 April 2013Organization of American States report pushes for regional coca leaf market, and legalizing marijuana
- Economist, 25 May 2013Finding coca tea for sale in Bogota
- Bogota Blog, 15 March 2013Bolivia's Evo Morales recommends coca wine to next Pope
- Reuters, 11 March 2013Former U.S. federal prosecutors who used to fight drugs, now switching sides and defending accused drug traffickers
- Guardian (UK), 27 February 2013The Bolivian coca leaf
- Penn State International Affairs Review, 10 February 2013Six reasons why the drug policy proposal of the FARC makes sense - the FARC proposed to the government for the first time that it study how to make a transition from illicit crops to other sustainable alternatives for the peasants who live there
- La Silla Vacia, 23 January 2013Evo Morales wins UN recognition of rights of Bolivians to chew coca
- ABC News, 12 January 2013Coca licensing is a weapon in Bolivia's drug war
- New York Times, 26 December 2012IberoAmerican Chamber of Cadiz will support coca chewing
- Diariocritico de Bolivia, 17 November 2012Hollywood actor Sean Penn asked to become ambassador for Bolivia to defend coca leaf chewing
- Daily Mail (UK), 31 October 2012Bolivian chancellor Choquehuanca says 120 non-aligned countries support the right of Bolivians to chew coca
- Tierra Fundaction, 28 September 2012Colombia's chief public prosecutor, Alejandro Ordóñez, calls for referendum in Colombia to legalize some drug consumption
- Irish Times, 20 August 2012'Decocainized' coca leaf extract debuts for weight management sector
- NutraIngredients, 11 July 2012Why Bolivian President Morales still heads coca growers union
- International Business Times, 10 July 2012Two state-owned coca companies in Chapare are not operating
- Opinion Bolivia, 03 July 2012The Colombian House of Representatives passes 1st draft of bill that would legalize farming of coca and marijuana
- Colombia Reports, 10 May 2012The "coca diplomacy" of Evo Morales
- Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 25 April 2012U.S. anti-coca growing efforts in Peru embitters Peruvian chocolate farmers given inferior cocoa hybrid to plant as an alternative
- Reuters, 25 April 2012DIGCOIN starts project to use turn seized coca into food, cardboard and paper
- La Razon, 25 March 2012Bolivian government rejects U.N. report on coca chewing
- Opinion.no, 28 February 2012Ebococa lanza el "panetón de coca" para esta Navidad
- La Razon, 16 December 2011A coca farmer in Bolivia earns upto 5 times the national minimum wage of 815 bolivianos
- EJV News, 23 November 2011Tired of coffee? This tea has cocaine!
- io9, 22 November 2011Coca is not cocaine
- Thomas Grisaffi, London School of Economics, July 2011Products of Ebococa will be sold throughout Bolivia
- Radio FMBolivia, 08 June 2011Bolivia's illegal coca becomes compost for fertilizer, rather than cocaine
- Guardian (London), 31 March 2011Peru must consider decriminalizing recreational drug use, according to former president Alejandro Toledo
- Reuters, 28 January 2011Spain supports Bolivia in its campaign to decriminalize use of coca leaf
- Telegraph (UK), 20 January 2014Coca puts fizz in new Bolivian energy drink, Coca Brynco
- Reuters, 18 January 2011Coca leaf liquor launched in UK at London Fashion Week parties
- The Grocer, 18 September 2010Need more calcium and don't want milk? Try the coca leaf
- Renegade Health, 08 July 2010New coca-leaf energy drink, Coca Colla, hits the market
- NotiSur, 04 June 2010Evo Morales - "Let me chew my coca leaves"
- New York Times, 13 March 2009Coca leaves are not cocaine, Evo Morales insists
- The Telegraph, 12 March 2009Legislators in Peru's Congress defend traditional coca use
- Reuters, 14 March 2008Fighting for the right to chew coca
- Time, 17 March 2008UN needs to chew on its [anti-coca] drug policy
- National Post, 06 March 2008Hugo Chavez's support for coca leaf and coca efforts of Bolivia's Morales
- Venezuealanalysis, 08 February 2008Bolivians seek world market for coca cures
- San Francisco Chronicle, 07 October 2007The coca leaf, benefits of traditional use smothered by drug policy
- Comunidad Segura, 31 July 2007Coca growers in Bolivia turn a new leaf
- Fortune, 06 July 2007Bolivians request that Coca Cola Company no longer use the word "coca"
- Portfolio, 16 March 2007Brazilian football coach bans players from drinking coca tea when they are in Peru for Copa America games
- NDTV News, 25 February 2007Yungas coca growers seek industrialization of coca but split on its legalization
- Bolivia Rising blog, 08 February 2007Peruvian chef looks beyond cocaine to create coca-leaf cuisine
- Bloomberg, 31 January 2007In Coroico, Bolivia: coca, poverty and hope
- IPSNET, 04 January 2007The president of Peru, Alan Garcia, recommends coca leaf
- BBC, 20 December 2006Osteoporosis free by eating coca leaf? One Peruvian boy did so.
- PRLOG, 30 August 2006Of tin mines, coca leaves and eternal recurrence
- Library of Economics and Liberty, 05 June 2006The coca plant paradox - a simple leaf with a complicated history
- Transitions Abroad, 31 May 2006Coca yes, cocaine no? Legal options for the coca leaf
- TransNational Institute, May 2006Coffee, coca and a clash of cultures between Bolivia and the U.S.
- The Independent (UK), 21 March 2006Bolivian official tells U.S. Congress that a healthy breakfast can include coca
- Washington Times, 9 March 2006Bolivia's knot: no to cocaine, but yes to coca
- New York Times, 12 February 2006Cola-leaf beverage packs extra lift in each mouthful - Coca Sek from the Nasa people of southern Colombia is a carbonated coca tea
- Seattle Times, 15 December 2005Genetically modified coca bush boosts levels of coca alkaloids
- Financial Times, 07 December 2004How Evo Morales has championed Bolivia's coca farmers
- Time Magazine, 31 July 2002El Alto journal: a cup of coca tea, anyone? Bolivia sees a market
- New York Times, 17 June 1992Coca leaf in Peru has an ancient mystique
- Philadelphia Inquirer, 16 July 1989Cultivation of coca leaves - a pillar of the Bolivian economy
- Globe and Mail, 26 February 1985Cup of coca: not so nice [flavor for Americans]
- New York Times, 12 September 1984Health benefits found in chewing coca leaf
- San Francisco Chronicle, 19 October 1983
NUTRACEUTICAL NEWS
Nutraceuticals are foods that also have medicinal properties. Two such nutraceuticals, maca and quinoa, are sourced in the Andean/Amazonia regions.
Chemicals in the bark of the Palo Azul tree of Mexico could help cure breast cancer
- La Prensa, 06 July 2017Coconut oil isn't healthy - it has never been healthy, because of its saturated fats
- USA Today, 16 June 2017Bolivia demonstrtes to the world the potential of its Royal Quinua
- Pagina Siete, 26 March 2017Blueberry concentrate improves brain function in older people
- ScienceDaily, 07 March 2017Botox: the drug that is treating everything
- Time, 05 January 2017China is planting quinua and wants to be the leading producer in the world
- El Diario, 25 December 2016Can you eat too much protein, since the body can only digest and absorb about 20 to 40 grams of protein at each meal?
- New York Times, 06 December 2016Ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, is shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose
- Los Angeles Times, 30 November 2016No evidence of aloe vera doun in the Aloe Vera products at WalMart and CVS
- Bloomberg, 22 November 2016Studies show little benefit in vitamin and nutritional supplements
- New York Times, 15 November 2016Soylent stops shipping new version of health food powder, after it makes people sick FNR
- The Verge, 28 October 2016Is teff the new super-grain?
- New York Times, 16 August 2016McDonald's tweaks its recipes: now with real butter in its McMuffins
- New York Times, 02 August 2016 Tiny state of Vermont brings food industry to its knees be requiring products to be labelled if they contain genetically modified ingredients
- Associated Press, 19 March 2016How many popular herbal supplements interfere with prescription drugs
- Wall Street Journal, 29 February 2016Quinua farming in Bolivia is in crisis: exports and internal consumption are both decreasing
- Los Tiempos, 15 February 2016The Republic of Tea company could be worth $125 million, but its CEO, Ron Rubin, doesn't want to sell
- Forbes, 10 February 2016Industrialized food additives, including emulsifiers such as soy lecithin, raise risk of automimmune diseases such as obesity
- Food Navigator, 29 January 2016Increased dietary intake of flavonoid-rich foods reduced erectile dysfunction in men - best sources are strawberries, blueberries, red wine, apples and pears, and citrus products
- Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, 13 January 2016Wild dulse, the superfood of the future, a crimson seaweed that tastes like bacon when fried, and has lots of nutrients
- Fast Company, 11 January 2016The unwanted chemicals (lead and arsenic) in rice and green tea
- Financial Times, 11 January 2016How MSG obtained a bad reputation: bad science and xenophobia
- 538.com, 08 January 2016Kratom, a leaf from Southeast Asia, that is suggested as a natural cure for drug addiction, is itself an addictive drug and a gateway to heroin, but still is not regulated by the DEA
- New York Times, 02 January 2016Tarwi, a superfood that is winning market share, popular in Bolivia and Ecuador
- Los Tiempos, 19 December 2015F.D.A. allows Hampton Creek to continue to call its egg-free mayonnaise "Just Mayo", as long as it emphasizes "egg-free" on the product label DRN
- New York Times, 18 December 2015In Bolivia, exports of quinua drop almost 50% in value and volume, with respect to last year
- Los Tiempos, 04 December 2015Producers of quinua in Bolivia are losing at least $44 per quintal due to higher costs and lower sales prices in the market
- La Razon, 07 November 2015Artisan coffee roasters ignore the coffee futures markets, and buy and set prices directly with coffee farmers
- Financial Times, 05 November 2015Editorial: the decline of quinua farming in Bolivia, due to decreasing world prices and competition from Peru, and lack of government support
- El Diario, 04 November 2015Studies indicate that synthetic statins could dampen the effect of flu vaccines
- CIDRAP News, 31 October 2015World Health Organization reports that eating processed meat raises the risk of colon cancer
- New York Times, 27 October 2015World Health Organization reports that eating processed meat raises the risk of colon cancer
- Washington Post, 27 October 201580% of the production of amaranth in Bolivia is exported to Europe
- La Razon, 25 October 2015Breast milk - a miracle cure for many ailments of babies, use of which is discouraged by sexual mores and infant formula products from the West
- New York Times, 22 October 2015Dietary supplements cause 20,000 visitations to emergency rooms, each year, in the United States
- New York Times, 16 October 2015Is drinking red wine at dinner good for people with type 2 diabetes?
- CBS News, 13 October 2015From liver disease to diabetes, chemicals in coffee protect against an array of health conditions
- Science News, 18 September 2015Drinking tea probably doesn't provide much in the way of health benefits
- New York Times, 06 October 2015Why students hate school lunches that are healthier
- New York Times, 26 September 2015Omega-3 supplements may only benefit humans with same mutation found in the Inuit people, so that their use is no longer evidence of the benefits of Omega-3
- Market Business, 19 September 2015Traditional medicine experts in La Paz, Bolivia, count 3000 medicinal plants in the country
- El Deber, 18 September 2015NIH study is halted early, after positive results indicate that blood pressure guidelines should be much lower, saving many lives (cacao's theobromine is reported to lower blood pressure)
- New York Times, 11 September 2015Widely prescribed statins accelerate aging, deactivate DNA repair and promote diabetes
- Am. J. of Physiology, 29 July 2015Widely prescribed statins accelerate aging, deactivate DNA repair and promote diabetes
- Natural News, 29 July 2015How we are making bitter fruits and vegetables less healthy, by making them less bitter
- New Scientist, 29 July 2015Time to lift the ban on total dietary fat (which includes the saturated fats of chocolate)
- Journal of the AMA, 23 June 2015How flavor drives nutrition - as food has become blander to be easy to sell, it has become less nutritious and less delicious
- Wall Street Journal, 09 April 2015The quinoa quarrel - who own's the world greatest superfood?
- Harper's Magazine, 01 May 2014The sneaky attempt of the FDA to ban another natural B vitamin
- ProHealth, 19 March 2014McDonald's Corporation announces that it will buying eggs produced by hens housed in cages
- ew York Times, 10 September 2015Organic food producers and industrial food conglomerates are each buying their own scientists to battle over the issue of genetically modified crops
- New York Times, 06 September 2015Two diseases attacking 50% of the coffee cultivation in Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 04 September 2015U.S. government-controlled industry group, the American Egg Board, paid food bloggers to attack the egg substitute created by Hampton Creek, an attack that could violate American lawse
- The Guardian, 06 September 2015The FDA says that Hampton Creek cannot call its egg-free mayonnaise product "mayonnaise", because it has no eggs, despite being just as healthy and despite being made only from vegetables
- Business Week, 03 September 2015United States rejects and returns 200 of Peruvian quinua, the motive being the use of pesticides
- Cambio, 01 September 2015Inside of the efforts of Kellogg to profit from the health-food craze, such as its Kashi brand
- Wall Street Journal, 01 September 2015Can some probiotics, healthy bacteria added to foods, have an antibiotic effect?
- Wall Street Journal, 01 September 2015Can some probiotics have an antibiotic effect?
- Wall Street Journal, 31 August 2015In India, as new drug molecules are hard to find, pharmaceutical companies are considering nutraceuticals
- DNA India, 30 August 2015Buying organic vegetables at the supermarket is a waste of money
- Quartz, 29 August 2015Eating foods that are high in protein can boost cardiovascular health, as much as getting exercise
- ScienceDaily, 27 August 2015Almond milk producers sued for having small amounts of almonds in the milk, and too much of thickeners such as carrageenan
- Fox Business, 28 August 2015More efficient emulsions to deliver nutraceuticals in foods
- Chemistry World, 25 August 2015Nutraceutical market to be work $38 billion by 2020
- Ingredients Network, 17 August 2015As You Sow files notice it intends to sue Soylent because its Super Food has too high levels of lead and cadmium
- Yahoo News, 13 August 2015Trans fats, but not saturated fats such as [cacao] butter, are linked to greater risk of early death and heart disease
- Science Daily, 11 August 2015Founder of yogurt manufacturer Chobani, Hamadi Ulukaya, is now entering the specialty coffee business
- New York Times, 10 August 2015Coffee producers are using the futures markets less as they invest directly with farmers of specialty coffees, and don't use futures to manage risk
- Wall Street Journal, 08 August 2015Bolivia to use amaranth and cañahua, protein rich grains, to treat diabetes, spending $80 million to benefit 840,000 people
- La Razon, 07 August 2015Peru displaces Bolivia in global markets in terms of exports of quinua
- La Razon, 02 August 2015Bulletproof raises $9 million to sell butter-infused coffee
- Fast Company, 24 July 2015Jamaica positioning its agriculture to benefit from the nutraceutical industry
- Caribbean News Now, 16 July 2015Two studies support guidelines for increasing the use of statins
- New York Times, 15 July 2015Achachairú, the low-sugar tasty fruit from Bolivia
- Daily Mail, 13 July 2015The United States is buying less quinua from Bolivia due to supplies of less expensive quinoa from Peru
- La Razon, 11 July 2015Production of quinua has tripled in Bolivia in three years, to 176,000 hectares
- Cambio, 07 July 2015Muscadine grape seed oil as a novel source of tocotrienols to reduce adipogenesis and adipocyte inflammation (to reduce obesity)
- Food & Function, 05 June 2015The increasing use of medicinal plants in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 02 May 2015The valleys of Tarija are the principal regions for growing nuts in Bolivia
- ErBol, 01 May 2015In Bolivia, organic farming costs 30% more than conventional farming
- Los Tiempos, 17 April 2015Coca growers in Colombia are switching to growing the cacay tree, the seeds of which have an oil very beneficial for human skin
- Bloomberg Business, 14 April 2015Maryland-based New Colombia Resources launches a Cali, Colombia subsidiary, Sannabis SAS, to grow hemp to mix with coal for power generation
- Power Engineering, 08 April 2015Dietary supplements of diindolylmethane, obtained from vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower, can help fight some cancers
- Wall Street Journal, 06 April 2015A medieval recipe using garlic, onion or leek, and cow bile, brewed in a brass vessel, kills the MRSA bacteria that is resistant to most drugs
- CBS News, 31 March 2015Pesticide residue in fruits and vegetables associated with low sperm count
- Washington Post, 30 March 2015A fatty acid in fish oil supplements interferes with chemotherapy drugs
- JAMA Oncology, 02 April 2015There is little to no scientific evidence that fish oil supplements lower the risk of heart attack and stroke
- New York Times, 30 March 2015A comprehensive medical study shows that the more nuts you eat, the less likely you are to die, at any age, of cancer or heart disease
- New York Times, 30 March 2015A daily supplement of saffron can prevent muscle weakness and pain after a strenuous workout
- Wall Street Journal, 30 March 2015Consuming eggs with raw vegetables increases nutritive value by a factor of 3 to 9
- Science Daily, 29 March 2015In Brazil, some prison inmates are receiving therapy with hallucinogenic tea that is brewed from the ayahuasca plant
- New York Times, 28 March 2015Cooking some rice with coconut oil dramatically reduces the amount of calories
- Washington Post, 25 March 2015The myths of diets that are high in animal protein
- New York Times, 23 March 2015The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recognizes that apples and potatoes that have their genes altered (to remain fresh) are generally recognized as safe (GRAS)
- New York Times, 21 March 2015Psychedelics are not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior
- Psychopharm, 28 February 2015Four natural supplements that are as powerful as medicine: berberine, curcumin, red yeast rice, and garlic
- Care2, 28 February 2015The next "new" grain from the Andes: the tarwi and its benefits
- El Diario, 19 February 2015Beetroot juice may help lower blood pressure for people with high blood pressure
- Wall Street Journal, 16 February 2015Vitamins hide the low quality of our processed foods
- New York Times, 15 February 2015The truth about 'miracle foods' - from chia seeds to coconut oil
- The Guardian, 15 February 2015Rapamycin, a natural antifungal compound from a bacteria, could be an anti-aging drug
- Business Week, 12 February 2015Doctors in the United States are selling medical foods from their offices, and selling new doses of old drugs (but at higher prices)
- New York Times, 10 February 2015Cholesterol in food, such as in butters, no longer is a health concern
- Yahoo News, 11 February 2015The U.S. government is ready to withdraw longstanding warnings about the dangers of eating foods with high levels of cholesterol, which don't greatly affect levels of cholesterol in the blood
- Washington Post, 10 February 2015A chemical in red wine and dark grapes, Ellagic acid, helps reduce body fat and improve liver function
- Wall Street OTC, 08 February 2015How Howard Schultz is transforming Starbucks
- Time, 05 February 2015Climate change is lowering the coffee production in the Yungas region of Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 02 February 2015Pom Wonderful's advertisements, that claimed that pomegranate juice fights heart disease and prostate cancer, are ruled false by a court
- Wall Street Journal, 30 January 2015A protein in coffee, with effects like morphine, is discovered in Brazil
- Fox News, 24 January 2015Teff, the next popular super grain from Ethiopia, rich in calcium, iron and protein
- The Guardian, 23 January 2015Cocoa beans, blueberries and avocados may keep cardiologists at bay
- Bioscience Technology, 20 January 2015Dried whole-plant Artemisia annua is more effective against malaria than just the extract of artemisinin
- Proc. National Academy of Sciences, 20 January 2015Bolivia maintains leadership and surpasses Peru in the sale of quinua
- La Razon, 20 January 2015Peru is the leading producer and exporter of quinua
- El Diario, 20 January 2015In Bolivia, the government and quinua producers form workshops to debate the boosting of the sector
- La Razon, 16 January 2015In Peru, the government affirms that they produce more quinua than Bolivia
- Pagina Siete, 19 January 2015Quinua exports from Bolivia drop 16%, losing market share to cheaper quinua from Peru
- La Razon, 15 January 2015Global market for nutraceuticals projected to reach $240 billion by 2019
- Virtual Strategy, 12 January 2015Adding bacteria to your food to improve the health of your microbiome
- Fast Company, 06 January 2015Women in Bolivia create energy bars using quinoa, that are covered in chocolate
- The Guardian, 05 January 2015Noemí, a small business in Bolivia, is producing natural cosmetics from plants of the altiplano
- La Razon, 04 January 2015Curry powder and soy sauce that are fortified with vitamins could alleviate malnutrition around the world
- Newsweek, 18 December 2014Nutraceutical ingredient market will reach $33.6 billion globally in 2018
- PR Newswire, 30 September 2014Galacto-oligosaccharides market will be worth $1 billion by 2020
- Global News Wire, 12 January 2015Value and volume of exports of chia seed from Bolivia decrease in 2014, while Argentina and Paraguay increase their production
- La Razon, 04 January 2015Chia seed producers request the government to boost the national and international promotion of the nutritive qualities of chia
- La Razon, 03 January 2015Cañahua is more nutritious than quinua, with more protein, fiber and minerals
- El Diario, 01 January 2015Only 9% of the quinua that Bolivia exports is as value-added products
- Pagina Siete, 26 December 2014Exports decrease of quinoa from Bolivia to the United States
- El Diario, 21 December 2014Quinoa producers in Bolivia demand that the government provide them with new export markets
- El Diario, 21 December 2014Swiss group announces investment of $650 million to farm quinua on the altiplano region near La Paz
- Los Tiempo, 19 December 2014A cheap natural compound (cytisine) may help smokers to quit
- US News & World Report, 17 December 2014In Peru, Chinese buyers are forcing higher the price of maca root, making some farmers rich while others are exploited, and making it harder for Peruvians to buy their native plant
- New York Times, 07 December 2014Quinua farmers in Potosi and Oruro spending 75% of their income on production cost, due to lack of supplies
- EL Diario, 05 December 2014Anti-inflammatory properties found in the leaves of the Mabolo tree
- Los Tiempos, 04 December 2014The latest superfood? Peru's maca root
- Wall Street Journal, 03 December 2014Prescribing vegetables, not pills, to fight obesity in children
- New York Times, 02 December 2014The competition for producing quinua is increasing
- La Razon, 01 December 2014Chia, the prodigious seed
- El Diario, 27 November 2014Government in Bolivia worried that smuggling lower-quality quinoa from Peru is driving down prices in Bolivia, hurting farmers in Bolivia
- El Diario, 25 November 2014Chilca (a ragwort) - a "magic plant" from La Paz useful for treating inflammation
- Pagina Siete, 23 November 2014Contraband quinoa from Peru, of lower quality, is driving down the prices of quinoa from Bolivia in national markets and for export
- El Diario, 21 November 2014United States returns Peruvian quinua that was exported as being Bolivian
- La Razon, 18 November 2014Plan seeks to triple the productivity of quinua farming in Bolivia
- La Razon, 16 November 2014Bolivia has the first plant for quinua milk in the world
- La Razon, 09 November 2014InterAmerican Development Bank donates $1.9 million to the Bolivian Chamber of Quinua (Cabolqui)
- El Diario, 08 November 2014How to sell quinoa in the Atlanta, Georgia, the land of grits
- New York Times, 07 November 2014Producers of quinoa in Bolivia seeking to develop value-added products based on quinoa
- La Razon, 06 November 2014Using genetically engineered yeast to produce custom milk
- National Geographic, 22 October 2014Price of quinua collapses, with exporters in Bolivia receiving $6000 per ton, down from $8000 per ton
- El Diario, 22 October 2014Annual consumption of quinua per person in Bolivia rises from 0.35 kilos in 2011 to 2.0 kilos in 2013
- Los Tiempos, 06 October 2014Green tea could help scientists develop new cancer fighting drugs
- Daily Mail (UK), 05 October 2014Bolivia and Pery compete for leadership in the sales of quinua
- La Razon, 05 October 2014New cooking techniques based on weird ingredients
- Technology Review, 02 October 2014Should we all take a bit of lithium to improve our mental health?
- New York Times, 14 September 2014The hot pursuit of kale and its trendy friends such as quinoa and amaranth, and rumors of shortages
- New York Times, 31 August 2014Cashew juice - a new tangy, fruit juice from India that Pepsi is turning into the latest fad juice
- New York Times, 09 August 2014The value of the export of chia from Bolivia has grown from nothing to $51 million in 13 years
- La Razon, 27 July 2014A study of organic crops finds they have fewer pesticides and more antioxidants
- New York Times, 12 July 2014Quinoa is the king of the so-called superfoods
- Wall Street Journal, 09 July 2014What's the next quinoa? Farmers reviving heritage grains such as fonio and amaranth
- National Geographic, 08 July 2014Cultivating quinua in England
- Los Tiempos, 02 July 2014Quinua: productivity en Peru es 4 times greater than in Bolivia
- Los Tiempos, 28 June 2014United States almost tripled its purchase of Bolivian quinua in four years
- La Razon, 16 June 2014Resveratrol, a component of red wine and chocolate, does not seem to have an influence on health or mortality
- JAMA Internal Medicine, 12 May 2014Little evidence that many fruits and vegetables offer protection against cancer
- New York Times, 22 April 2014Do rice plants absorb too much arsenic, cadmium and mercury
- New York Times, 18 April 2014In Bolivia, fruit fair promotes the use of Tarwi powder and milk to combat diabetes and renal disease
- Pagina Siete, 17 April 2014Eating modest amounts of beans and peas lowers LDL, the bad cholesterol
- New York Times, 14 April 2014Nuzee launches Coffee Blenders, first group of K-Cup compatible coffees fortified with nutraceuticals
- PR Newswire, 08 April 2014Hydrocolloids (gelatin, starch, agar, etc.) - the below-the-radar food additives used as texturizing agents
- PR Newswire, 07 April 2014How Mexican drug gangs are making the lime an endangered species, and destroying other healthy fruits
- New York Times, 29 March 2014Astaxanthin, a carotenoid with much anti-oxidant power of marine origin
- Natural Products Insider, 18 March 2014Experts highlight R&D in dietary supplements and nutraceuticals to control aging
- FnBNews, 15 March 2014Bolivia initiates International Center of Quinua in La Paz
- El Diario, 13 March 2014United States is the principal buyer of Bolivian quinua
- El Diario, 11 March 2014In Bolivia, increasing production of quinua should lead to lower prices
- Cambio, 11 March 2014Study finds a potent painkiller in a Chinese underground tuber of the Corydalis plant
- Los Angeles Times, 02 January 2014FAO laments that only global distributors of quinua are making the big bucks, with little of the profits from inflated prices going to the producers/farmers
- El Diario, 16 December 2013Bolivian government bets on industrialization of quinua
- La Razon, 15 December 2013Bolivian president Evo Morales launches global effort to fight hunger based on quinua
- La Razon, 15 December 2013Bolivia increases consumption of quinua at the world level
- El Diario, 15 December 2013Exports of quinua from Bolivia increased 30% in 2013
- Pagina Siete, 12 December 2013Bolivia is the world's leading exporter of quinua
- La Razon, 08 December 2013Bolivia exports quinua to 30 countries, with the U.S. buying 60%
- La Razon, 08 December 2013Is now the decade of quinua in Bolivia?
- La Razon, 02 December 2013High amounts of six nutrients from tumeric, soybeans, broccoli, grapes and tea, together, kill breast cancer cells in vitro
- Inside CostaRica, 27 November 2013Harvard University study reports that eating dried fruits protects against cancer and heart attacks
- Los Tiempos, 26 November 2013At food trade show in La Paz, a growing number of new products using quinua and amaranth
- Pagina Siete, 25 November 2013