Bolivian President Luis Arce reaffirmed the nation's commitment to the legal uses of coca leaf, claiming that 'it is not cocaine.' During the National Acullico Day event in La Paz on January 11 ...

In a tropical corner of Bolivia, on a compound owned by a radio station that caters to growers of the plant often used to ...

Route 36 in La Paz, Bolivia, is renowned for being the world’s only cocaine bar. But what is it really like to spend an evening there? One woman reports on an eye ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

Aymara shamans, or amautas, in Bolivia are refusing to leave their homes in El Alto despite being just feet away from a ...

We asked. If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab.

Bolivia is one of the top cultivators of coca plants – from which cocaine is derived – along with Peru and Colombia. The plants are then usually exported to Colombia, where roughly two thirds ...

Bolivia, the world's No. 3 cocaine producer, will fund an anti-narcotics unit for the first time next year as it seeks to reduce foreign involvement in fighting trafficking, an official said ...

Morales signed a law which officially recognizes as legal 22,000 hectares of coca crops, raising the limit of 12,000 hectares fixed in the previous law. Bolivia passed a controversial measure on ...

Within this trio, Bolivia—second to Peru as a producer of coca leaf and to Colombia as a producer of refined cocaine—has been the largest recipient of U.S. counternarcotics aid. The impact of ...

TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab.