Pushed by necessity, Castillo eventually returned to Putumayo to work in the coca fields; but as she continued facing insecurity, she sought a different livelihood. She is now a member of the ...

If a policeman sees a coca laboratory, he's expected to take it down and make arrests. In the fields, it's coca. Here in the laboratory, it's the beginning of the cocaine conspiracy. And people ...

AFP reporters witnessed swaths of empty coca fields, with workers redeployed to drive the army out of two nearby areas. Scores of locals were seen confronting a group of soldiers, shouting at ...

A short drive north of Bolivia’s capital La Paz, deep in the lush green valleys of the Yungas, Alicia Calle, a middle-aged Indigenous cocalero (coca farmer), plucked the leaves off the shrubs on ...

The international narcotics trade has not been spared. From the cartel badlands along the US-Mexico border and verdant coca fields of the Andes, to street dealers in London and Paris, traffickers ...

John Boutet has always been enamored by collecting all types of sports memorabilia and, in particular, his collection of Buffalo baseball history is extensive. Since the passing of Joe Overfield ...

OTIS: In this video obtained by NPR, guerrillas of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, are battling a rival rebel faction for control over fields of coca, the raw material for cocaine.