GameChangers 2023: Unintended Consequences for Colombia’s ‘Total Peace’
President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace” policy had a difficult 2023. Not only did it fail to persuade the country’s most…
Coca in Honduras: Cultivating and Consuming Fear
This article is part of NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order, a transnational journalistic investigation into global organized crime, its innovations,…
30 Years After Escobar, How the Cocaine Trade Has Changed
Pablo Escobar and his Medellín Cartel transformed the cocaine trade during their heyday in the 1980s. But the 30 years…
What’s Next For the Shining Path in Peru?
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The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Colombia’s Ambitious New Drug Policy
The Colombian government’s new drug policy aims to radically shift the country’s approach to the fight against drugs. But given…
Europe: Cocaine’s Ever-Expanding Market
European ports are being inundated with huge quantities of cocaine, with recent record seizures suggesting that the arrival of large…
Peruvian Coca Continues Expansion as New Regions Gain Importance
Coca cultivation in Peru reached an all-time high in 2022, with the largest growth in crops occurring outside of traditional…
Colombia’s Coca Market Crash Unlikely to Impact Cocaine Trade
The plummeting price of coca in some of Colombia’s cultivation hotspots is unlikely to affect major drug trafficking operations despite…
South America’s Cocaine Supply Boom Shows Up in European Wastewater Analysis
South America’s cocaine boom is feeding the growing consumption of the drug in Europe, the latest wastewater analysis of the…
Coca May Have Permanently Taken Root in Central America
Honduran and Guatemalan authorities are eradicating record amounts of coca plants, further evidence of the coca’s expansion beyond the traditional…