The experiences from counternarcotic operations around the world indicate that combating drug trafficking is a challenging ...

The 40-year-old, who has not been named, was attempting fly to the Netherlands, allegedly with drugs said to be worth at ...

Released on February 18, 2025, in La Paz, the findings reveal a rise from 29,900 hectares in 2022, challenging Bolivia's efforts to curb its cocaine trade role. Coca fields spread into protected ...

Mumbai: A 71-year-old Bolivian national, caught at the airport carrying 2.4kg cocaine in December 2017, has been acquitted by the Special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act after ...

She says she is succeeding. Argentina has grown in importance as a transit hub for cocaine as production from Peru and Bolivia has flowed down key waterways and out through river ports such as ...

She says she is succeeding. Argentina has grown in importance as a transit hub for cocaine as production from Peru and Bolivia has flowed down key waterways and out through river ports such as that of ...

which is one of the main cocaine producing countries alongside Peru and Bolivia. The French authorities are particularly worried by the recruitment of minors by mafia networks who use them because ...

The coca leaf contains only trace amounts of the alkaloid used to make cocaine. Peru and Bolivia are the world's second and third-largest cocaine producers behind Colombia. The narcotics control ...

All these rivers link the cocaine-producing regions of Bolivia, Peru and Colombia to the major Brazilian ports on the Amazon and Atlantic coasts. This stranglehold has direct and tragic ...