P olice in Bolivia have arrested the country's former counternarcotics czar after finding a cocaine lab on one of his ...

The Trump administration has decertified Colombia as a drug war partner for the first time in nearly three decades, citing ...

Although cocaine use became widespread in the 19th century once it was synthesized into cocaine hydrochloride salts, Europeans knew of the coca plant’s stimulating effects since the early 15th century ...

By Alek Buttermann Felipe Cáceres, Bolivia’s former vice-minister of Social Defence and Controlled Substances under former President Evo Morales, was detained after anti-narcotics forces busted a ...

Cocaine growth has continued to decline in Colombia and Bolivia. Colombian police personnel from an anti-narcotics unit custody an illegal laboratory producing cocaine hydrochloride. AFP/Getty Images ...

Officers intercepted 28 pounds of cocaine concealed as hot chocolate from Guatemala.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Washington Dulles International Airport examined a food shipment ...

Researchers studying a crypt in Milan found that the coca plant may have been used “for recreational purposes” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Two Russian citizens were arrested at the Binational Border Service Center (Cebaf) in Tumbes, northern Peru, when their suitcases were scanned during entry control and revealed two rectangular ...

The Colombian navy rescued three suspected drug traffickers using bales of cocaine to stay afloat following a shipwreck Sunday. The bizarre rescue occurred 30 miles from Tumaco on Colombia's Pacific ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers confiscated 12.2 kilograms (27 pounds) of cocaine concealed within a hidden compartment in a motorized wheelchair at George Bush Intercontinental ...