What is believed to be the largest cocaine production laboratory ever found in Portugal was recently dismantled, highlighting how the drug is being produced more widely and in greater quantities in ...

(Bloomberg) -- Cocaine is set to become Colombia's main export, overtaking oil, as production of the narcotic continues to expand as the government take a more lenient policy regarding drugs, ...

Colombia's cocaine production has spiraled out of control over the past 30 years. Even the downfall of the Medellin and Cali Cartels, along with the death of Pablo Escobar on a suburban Medellin ...

Criminal networks are moving parts of cocaine processing into Europe, using imported materials from South America. Raids in Spain and the Netherlands have exposed large laboratories, including an ...

June 23 (UPI) -- Colombia's illegal cocaine trade generated more revenue than the country's oil exports in 2024, becoming its largest source of foreign currency, according to a new report. The report ...

VIENNA, June 26 (Reuters) - The global trade in illicit drugs is booming, with cocaine production and seizures of methamphetamine at an all-time high, a United Nations report ‌showed on Friday, ...

Cocaine is poised to overtake oil as Colombia’s main export as soon as this year — partly thanks to the South American country’s efforts to legalize the cocaine trade, according to Bloomberg Economics ...

The use of liquids to conceal and traffic cocaine through commercial supply chains is growing, and driving an evolution in Europe’s role in the global cocaine supply chain, which is evolving beyond ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he learned the United States' attack on Venezuela struck a cocaine processing facility in Maracaibo that he said belonged to the National ...

UNODC reports Colombia’s cocaine production hit a record in 2022, nearing the country's oil export earnings. Major oil-producing regions, like Putumayo, overlap with high-density coca cultivation ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala is no longer just a transit point for traffickers seeking to smuggle cocaine north towards the United States, authorities said on Thursday after security officials ...