The Peruvian Foreign Minister, Javier González-Olaecheaannounced this Sunday that he has asked the Secretary of State for help USAAntony Blinken, to develop a plan to fight drug trafficking like the one the North American country executed in Colombia. “We are concerned about the production and export of the cocaine and its derivatives, that is why […]
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The pain endures in victims of Pablo Escobar 30 years after his death
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“They killed Pablo Escobar!“, his classmates at school shouted at Gonzalo Rojas Peña when they heard the news. “Aren’t you happy?“, they immediately added when they saw him stunned and sitting on the ground. The most wanted drug trafficker in the world and the person responsible for the death of his father had been killed […]
Colombia: New drug policy will reduce coca production by 40%
He Colombian government presents this Saturday its new national policy drugswhich seeks to persecute major drug traffickers and support farmers, and with which it plans to reduce cocaine production by 40% to 900 tons per year, the Minister of Justice, Néstor Osuna, says in an interview with EFE. Currently Colombia is the country with the […]
Bolivia recognizes cocaine production in the country, points to “megalaboratories”
The government of bolivian recognized for the first time in 17 years that the country is becoming a production center for cocaine instead of just being a place of transit and cultivation of coca leaves. The South American country is, along with Colombia and Peru, widely recognized as one of the world’s largest producers of […]
How did Ecuador become one of the most violent countries in Latin America?
Until a few years ago, Ecuador was an island of peace between Colombia and Peru, the world’s two largest producers of cocaine. But since 2018, at the rate of the seizures of drughomicides increase with the signature of transnational organized crime. The shooting murder of Presidential candidate in the center Fernando Villavicencio, second in the […]
UN: Fall in the price of coca contributes to food insecurity in Colombia
The collapse of the price of Coca leafthe main input of the cocaineis contributing to food insecurity in Colombia and causing displacement, as people leave areas that depend on illicit cultivation, revealed an internal presentation of United Nations known to Reuters. Historically, coca cultivation has provided better incomes than legal alternatives for thousands of rural […]
The flavored coca leaf changes an ancient taste in Bolivia
Bitter, rough and hard, the coca leaf that is chewed in bolivian As a natural energizer, it now comes softer and with a fruit flavor. An initiative changed the ancient texture and taste of the stigmatized plant from the South American Andes. A decade ago, the crushed and flavored coca leaf was just an experiment. […]
Global cocaine production soars to record levels, UN says
Coca cultivation shot up 35% between 2020 and 2021, reaching a record level, according to a UN report published this Thursday, which points to the appearance of new trafficking centers in southeastern Europe and Africa. In 2021 there were more than 300,000 hectares of coca plantations in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, the three countries where […]
The poison of cocaine trafficking in the French port of Le Havre
That Monday in October, the traffickers did not even return the container. They removed it from the French port of Le Havre, cut it open on the side of a road and took away its valuable and illegal contents. “Several testimonies saw some guys running away with sports bags, probably full of cocaine. There is […]
A network that introduced cocaine into Europe from America with sailboats falls
An operation between Spain Y France allowed the dismantling of an organization accused of introducing cocaine into Europe through sailboats from America, with fifteen detainees and one thousand kilos of this drug seized, the Spanish Police and Civil Guard reported on Tuesday. Most of the cocaine, 740 kilos, was seized last December on one of […]