EL PLATEADO/SAN JUAN DE MICAY, Colombia (Reuters) -The dilapidated, tin-roofed schoolhouse sits perched amid fields of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, in the small southwestern Colombian town of ...

A government initiative to help communities move away from farming coca has stalled, while a surge in global cocaine use has made demand for the plant higher than ever ...

In a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, the four authors found the surge in cocaine supply caused an immediate rise in overdose deaths in the U.S.

Colombia will use drones to resume spraying of coca crops with a weed killer, the government announced on Monday, as authorities grapple with record levels of cocaine production that have fueled ...

Cocaine production in Colombia has surged after policy changes in 2015 allowed coca cultivation to thrive. The post How ...