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 ...

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

A person is killed every two hours in Ecuador and seven are kidnapped daily, according to government figures. That's why ...

“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 famous U.S. streamer Darren Jason Watkins Jr., popularly known as Speed (IShowSpeed on YouTube and Twitch), has been in ...

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.

Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru are known to use coca for cocaine ... with the reservation of allowing traditional coca leaf chewing throughout its territory. In 2016, chewing of the coca leaf was ...

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

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At first, “rolos” – the Bogotános – were perplexed by Mini-Mal’s ingredients, from molluscs harvested in Pacific mangroves to ...