Bolivian police guard cocaine that was discovered hidden in scrap metal in shipping containers during a news conference in Bolivia's Pisiga region, near the border with Chile, March 18, 2024.

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Within Bolivia, the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine, the ancient leaf has inspired spiritual rituals among Indigenous communities for generations — and more ...

Bolivia hardens tone on cocaine 'mega labs', signaling crackdown. By Monica Machicao. September 2, 2023 11:36 AM UTC Updated September 2, 2023 Item 1 of 3 A view shows coca ...

Bolivia announced a record cocaine seizure from the country's western Oruro department, officials said on Friday, giving the drugs a local street value of $224 million but nearly double that in ...

Law enforcement raises warning over so-called pink cocaine 02:30. Bolivia's former anti-narcotics chief was extradited to the United States on Thursday to face federal drug trafficking charges in ...

Item 1 of 4 Members of Bolivian security forces stand next to detainees after police carried out the second-largest drug bust in the country's history, seizing more than 7.2 tons of cocaine hidden ...

Gang caught smuggling cocaine-infused leather from Latin America to Europe - The gang had set up a laboratory in Athens to extract the cocaine from the leather ...

Bolivia is becoming a "strategic hub and the main supplier of cocaine in the Southern Cone of South America," said Reyes. The Amazon region, in the North and East of the country, is increasingly ...

In February, Spanish authorities found just over 1,000 pounds of cocaine on a commercial flight at Madrid–Barajas Airport. The Boliviana de Aviación (BoA) flight, operated by Spanish charter ...

Within Bolivia, the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine, the ancient leaf has inspired spiritual rituals among Indigenous communities for generations — and more ...