It is no secret that the crop known as coca, ever-abundant in South America, is the main ingredient in making cocaine. However, Belize has found a more legal use for the crop, beer.
Concrete truck driver in fatal Hays CISD school bus crash arrested in Bastrop County. Court docs reveal admission of marijuana and cocaine use within 24 hours before crash.
Drug traffickers are using "Narco-submarines" to escape coastal patrols. However, one was recently captured by Colombia's Navy, the first catch of 2024.
Two separate banana shipments from South America were discovered to be hiding tons of cocaine in Europe. Banana shipments from Panama and Ecuador were found to have some cocaine hidden inside.
British model Modou Adams was apprehended while attempting to leave Lima, Peru with roughly $360,000 worth of cocaine. He has subsequently been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Authorities in Latin America have confiscated cocaine and other illegal drugs worth $5.7 billion in an operation spanning 15 countries, according to Interpol.
Raul Flores Hernandez, alias "El Tio," a notorious Mexican drug trafficker who worked for both the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), pleaded guilty to charges of cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
Authorities in Ecuador have found packages of cocaine in a shipment of bananas bound for Belgium. Authorities in Ecuador have found packages of cocaine in a shipment of bananas bound for Belgium.
One of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera's most trusted chief aides is now on trial in a federal court in Chicago, Illinois for the distribution of cocaine and heroin. Known as the "Engineer," the El Chapo aide, Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, 51, pleaded guilty to his crimes.
A report from a United Nations agency said the number of Colombia's lands with coca plants from which cocaine is made was at its highest level in 20 years last year.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who visited Colombia for the first time, expressed support to President Gustavo Petro's new, "holistic" approach in solving the country's drug problem.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have seized a shipment of baby wipes that turned out to be an $11.8 million worth of cocaine at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The new leftist government of Colombia is planning an overhaul of the policy concerning illegal drugs but said this will not include legalizing cocaine.
The White House has released the results of a new study they conducted about cocaine production in Colombia. The study claimed that the illegal substance is still being produced in the South American country at near record levels in 2021.
