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…
Peace Leaders in Putumayo, Colombia Bet Their Lives on Coca Crop Substitution
Community leaders in Colombia’s Putumayo department have historically supported coca substitution programs as part of peace processes aimed at resolving…
Guatemala Sees Record Coca, But No Cocaine
A radical increase in coca eradication in Guatemala has raised questions about the country’s potential role as a cocaine producer,…
Coca Cultivation Grows in Guerrero, Mexico, but Scalability Remains Doubtful
The rapid expansion of coca leaf plantations in Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero is the latest indication that criminal groups…
Lake Titicaca: A Smuggler’s Paradise in Bolivia and Peru
Lake Titicaca, nestled high in the Andean mountains between Bolivia and Peru, has been many things to many people. The…