'We have no choice': Indigenous guards take on cocaine gangs in Peru's Amazon
Illicit coca cultivation and trafficking are expanding across Peru's Amazon, bringing deforestation, corruption, violence, and threats to Indigenous communities and isolated tribes.
Gulf Clan negotiates peace while fighting the ELN over one of the largest coca and gold reserves in Colombia
An armed conflict between the ELN and the Gulf Clan is displacing hundreds in southern Bolívar over control of lucrative coca cultivation and illegal gold mining.
Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
Cocaine trafficking generates roughly $15.3 billion annually in Colombia, representing about 4.2% of GDP and driving expanding coca cultivation despite control efforts.
