The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.

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The cocaine, stored in dozens of 110-pound sacks inside a warehouse, was "camouflaged" in a mixture with plaster, officials ...

The World Health Organization had a historic opportunity to ease a strict global ban on the coca leaf—a prohibition, ...

Surging trans-Atlantic drug flows mean that cocaine seizures in Europe now exceed those in North America.

Bolivia's brand-new narcotics czar, Ernesto Justiniano, told AFP Friday the US Drug Enforcement Administration, expelled in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia made its largest cocaine bust in a decade, authorities announced Friday, with 14 tons confiscated ...

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UCAYALI, Peru — As they patrol their ancestral territory deep in the Amazon, some of the members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard carry spears. Others wield machetes. Several have traditional bows ...