Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Peru. Andean populations created these characteristic agricultural terraces on the hillsides. The Inca system for growing and harvesting coca leaves involved many steps. The plants were grown in ...

In March, a Shining Path ambush on a local farming community left two civilians dead. Peru is one of the world-s largest producers of coca leaf and cocaine, along with Bolivia and Colombia.

Bolivia and Peru have defended the continued, traditional use of coca leaves which have been chewed by indigenous populations for centuries, after they were criticized by a UN drugs agency report.

A group of artisans and two designers from Bogotá are determined to recover the plant’s ancestral use as a pigment and ...

music-filled journey to the foothills of Peru’s Machu Picchu. The highlight of the Hiram Bingham route is the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. Holding aloft pairs of dry coca leaves ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...