The Yungas is one of two chief coca-growing regions in Bolivia, along with the Chapare, and the leaves here are considered ...

Locals still use coca today to combat altitude sickness, and to relieve pain and hunger. Some still believe that its leaves can be read to tell the future. Growing more than six feet tall ...

Coca leaves are mixed in big vats that contain gasoline ... At one point the FARC controlled 70% of Colombia's coca crops. Coca plants grow just two months a year amid the lush greenery of ...

Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian and former coca grower, has repeatedly defended the use of coca leaves and has lobbied to remove coca from the 1961 convention. The narcotics board ...

Colombia and Bolivia will propose to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs to accept the traditional use of coca leaf and remove it from the list of banned substances, Deputy Foreign Minister Laura ...