Colombia and England faced off in the ... of acres of rain forest chain-sawed down to make way for new fields of coca, and cocaine ain't exactly environmentally friendly. Pedro's pouring out ...
But they’re all ultimately in the deadly business of asserting control over the region’s fields of coca, the raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry.
Cocaine ‘is no worse than whiskey’ – these are the words of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. He said during a live ...
Cocaine is smuggled to the US a variety ... just two months a year amid the lush greenery of the Colombian countryside. Below, a coca field owned by Edgar and his father, Gonzalo, stands ready ...
But it left a vacuum increasingly filled by armed gangs that have shaken Colombia with a violent, cocaine-fueled conflict raging across several provinces of the country where the government has ...
After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a ...
"Data from the field indicates at least 30 people killed and more than 20 injured," he said, blaming the clashes on a "territorial dispute" linked to the cocaine trade. Colombian ombudsman Iris ...
The Global Drug Survey, of more than 120,000 ... that the coca crops are sprayed with. The Colombian troops killed trying to clear mined coca fields. The innocent feet which explode after stepping ...
But they’re all ultimately in the deadly business of asserting control over the region’s fields of coca, the raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry. Over the past ...
The militias have grown as the amount of coca leaf and cocaine produced ... U.S. and Colombian military officials say. Guerrillas patrolling fields of coca crops last year in Micay Canyon, a ...