Drug lords in Colombia are making more money from cocaine than the government is making from crude oil sales, a report from a Colombian university has found. At $16.5 billion for 2024, cocaine ...

McLean, VA, May 24, 2026 --(PR.com)-- The Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) is publishing “Invisible Contamination: Cocaine and Chemical Inputs Associated with Illicit Production in Colombia’s ...

June 23 (UPI) -- Colombia's illegal cocaine trade generated more revenue than the country's oil exports in 2024, becoming its largest source of foreign currency, according to a new report. The report ...

Colombia’s cocaine production surged by nearly half its previous amount last year, United Nations experts said Friday. The area covered with fields of green coca leaves expanded by 39 percent to ...

Illegal coca plantations in Colombia reached record levels last year following a 17 percent increase from 2016 to around 423,000 acres (171,000 hectares), the United Nations said on Wednesday. The UN ...

MIAMI—Colombian officials are working to eliminate the nation’s illicit cocaine trade and replace it with chocolate. “We say to the world, ‘Please buy cocoa, not coca,’” Defense Minister Pedro Arnulfo ...

Cocaine revenue hit $16.5 billion in 2024, edging past Colombia's roughly $15 billion in oil export earnings, according to research from EAFIT University. Colombia's oil output has fallen for years ...