After decades overseeing some of Peru’s biggest mines, Victor Gobitz has reemerged at the helm of a Canadian startup that has ...

The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and ...

In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...

In northern Uganda’s Pader district, farmers are working to preserve agricultural landscapes that have fed their communities ...

Ayuuk leader Arnoldo Nicolás Romero, a municipal commissioner of the Buena Vista ejido in San Juan Guichicovi, a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, was found dead Jan. 21. His body ...

Embarking on this high-altitude adventure, given my severe chronic illness, was challenging but completely worth it ...

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte spent less than an hour this Wednesday at the Prosecutor’s Office in Lima, where she was summoned to testify regarding the alleged cover-up in the escape of politician ...

How did a nut that’s been prized across West Africa for centuries come to be integral in the development of the world’s most ubiquitous soft drink? The story is a surprising mix of colonialism, ...

Leaf blowers can make easy work of clearing your garden, but only the best models will remove heavy debris without any hassle, while the worst will struggle to pick up damp leaves and are a nightmare ...

In March, a Shining Path ambush on a local farming community left two civilians dead. Peru is one of the world-s largest producers of coca leaf and cocaine, along with Bolivia and Colombia.

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The bushy shrub’s alkaloid-rich leaves, long chewed by Indigenous ... suppliers of the drug, relied upon coca paste imported from Bolivia and Peru to manufacture the cocaine they were shipping ...