'GM cocaine grown in Colombia'
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Drug growers in Colombia are using genetically modified plants to dramatically boost cocaine yields, officials say.
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The Colombian police have captured a reputed leader of the drug cartel held responsible for half the cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s.
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By Daniela Estrada  SANTIAGO, Dec. 12, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- In Chile, genetically modified seeds may only be planted to produce crops for export. However, imported GM foods can be eaten here.
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JUTIAPA, Guatemala  - In towns along Guatemala's drug corridor between El Salvador and Mexico, drug traffickers flush with money see this year's elections as a new way to extend their power.
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The US authorities unload 37 tonnes of Colombian cocaine, worth $2bn, after a two-month operation at sea.
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Mexican authorities have arrested a reputed major figure in one of Colombia's largest and most feared drug cartels responsible for nearly half of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, U.S. officials said Friday.
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The Colombian anti-narcotics police say that a record number of drug crops were sprayed during 2004.
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EL MIRADOR, Colombia -- The latest shift in Colombia's war on drugs is evident on a green hilltop in this town, as weather-beaten men in gray jumpsuits -- government-paid eradicators -- use hoes and muscle to rip out bushes of coca. Policemen carrying M-16 assault rifles and land-mine detectors...
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia will require banksand money changers to report all international transfers ofmore than $200 starting next year to help combat drug moneylaundering and "narco terrorists" and control the strength ofthe peso.
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BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua  - From the drug runners' point of view, the working environment along Nicaragua's Caribbean coast is as good as it gets.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Seven Colombian police  officers killed in a friendly fire clash with the army in March  might have been trying to steal cocaine, according to a probe  announced by a senior legal official on Monday.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Ecuadoran President-elect Rafael Correa said yesterday Colombia's renewed program to fumigate illegal drug crops on the border was a "hostile act," escalating a diplomatic spat between the South American neighbors.
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The Colombian government has filed a lawsuit accusing Pernod Ricard SA, Diageo PLC and Seagram Export Sales Co. of illegally importing spirits via Colombian companies that launder drug money.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The former boss of the Cali  drug cartel, who once controlled most of the world's cocaine  trade, was sent to the United States on Friday to face  trafficking and money laundering charges.
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Â·  Colombian farmers driven out as armed groups profit Â·  Lucrative 'green' crop less risky to grow than coca
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A Franco-Spanish narcotics operation has netted a shipment of three tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated 200 million euros (250 million dollars), French police have said.
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Police found a cocaine laboratory in the southern Bolivian jungle capable of producing 245 pounds of the drug daily, one of the largest drug labs ever discovered in the Andean country.