This is the ridiculous moment a police officer dressed as a capybara carried out a drugs raid in Peru.  Video footage shows ...

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

“Stepan buys about 100 metric tons of dried Peruvian coca leaves each year, said Marco Castillo, spokesman for Peru’s state-owned National Coca Co.” The company which imports coca leaves ...

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

Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed today. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean ...

Peru, Argentina, Chile and Brazil are all home to restaurants considered to be some of the best in the world. We have found ...

and it’s not bulls***, the coca stands for coca leaf which is the source of alkaloid, cocaine.” Another added: “Not bulls***. In fact, Coke still uses a coca (the leaf cocaine comes from ...

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

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

For Indigenous peoples and local communities across Central and South America, financial opportunities from voluntary carbon ...