RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY, April 22 (Reuters) - Countries around the world have spent billions of dollars bailing out businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Peru's coca farmers, who grow ...

Five new zones of coca cultivation were added to this year's monitoring list An increase in coca cultivation and cocaine production in Peru is playing a large role in fueling the current global ...

The cultivation of coca is a burgeoning business in southern Peru, where even forests in protected area are being cleared to make room for coca fields. Coca is the plant from which cocaine is produced ...

E missaries of Mexican drug cartels are involving themselves more closely in cocaine production in Colombia, paying farmers in advance and pushing cultivation of highly-productive strains, coca ...