AFP reporters witnessed swaths of empty coca fields, with workers redeployed to drive the army ... For researcher Juana ...

Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia asked the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, from its list of harmful substances. At a commission ...

AFP reporters witnessed swaths of empty coca fields, with workers redeployed ... For researcher Juana Cabezas of the NGO Indepaz, "Colombia has not returned to the old days" of a decades-long ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.