Agence France Presse
Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 00:00
"Our reports indicate that the yield per hectare under cultivation could be double what it was ten years ago."
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 00:00
Texas Governor Rick Perry has accused President Barack Obama of "gambling with American lives" after a bullet believed to be from a gun battle in Mexico hit a building in the US state.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 00:00
Fully 45.4 percent of coca in the world comes from Peru, while 39.3 percent is grown in Colombia and 15.3 percent in Bolivia, according to a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Monday, June 14, 2010 - 00:00
Ongoing combat between the military and FARC rebels were preventing the rescued hostages from leaving the area.
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 00:00
It was not clear whether simmering rows between Washington and Brasilia, the western hemisphere's main powers, would stay under the surface or burst into the open and hurt the overall OAS meeting.
Friday, December 12, 2008 - 00:00
The price of a gram of cocaine in the US soared 89 percent -- from 96.61 dollars to 182.73 dollars -- from January 2007 to September 2008, said the Drug Enforcement Administration
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe offered FARC guerrillas cash rewards and freedom if they desert the rebel ranks with some of the hostages they are holding, a proposal questioned by the attorney general
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
Uribe, who wants the US Congress to approve a free trade agreement the two countries signed in 2006, spoke with Clinton for 10 minutes
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
"Markets are not perfect (...) but they are engines of opportunity to achieve social justice," Rice said during what was likely to be her last visit to the region
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
A former Colombian Marxist rebel arrived in Paris on Wednesday, the first to be rewarded for freeing a hostage with a new life in France