Huánuco, 10, Peru

Government Indifferent to Invasion of Drug Traffickers in the Peruvian Amazon

The invasion of lands inhabited by Amazon indigenous communities is growing in Peru, due to drug trafficking mafias that are expanding coca crops to produce and export cocaine, while deforestation and insecurity for the native populations and their advocates …

2024-07-26 19:40

Study shows leaf shape and size can't reliably distinguish wild coca plants from those grown to make cocaine

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution indicates that while the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has collected annual data on areas of coca cultivation in South America for decades to monitor the establishment of illegal plantations and associ…

2024-07-10 04:10