Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets ...

One potent tributary in the surging cocaine pipeline begins in the mountains of Cauca province, where nearly every plot of ...

It rises steeply from the relatively flat jungle landscape of eastern Peru, making it visible from as far west as the Andes — 250 miles (400 kilometers) away — on a clear day. The formation ...

Lack of protection Jamer López, the president of ORAU, a regional organization part of the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), said the primary ...

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Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60 percent of Peru’s territory, according to nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one ...

Already a subscriber? Log in In Peru’s Amazon region, drug gangs running the coca trade in cooperation with Mexican cartels have over recent years expanded into illegal mining, especially for gold.

That came from those Colombian drug cartels. But the coca plants also grew in Bolivia, Ecuador and mostly Peru. To get farmers to stop growing coca, the U.S. began what it called its Andean strategy.

BERAS: Cocaine was the big thing. That came from those Colombian drug cartels. But the coca plants also grew in Bolivia, Ecuador and mostly Peru. To get farmers to stop growing coca, the U.S. began ...