'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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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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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia will require banks  and money changers to report all international transfers of  more than $200 starting next year to help combat drug money  laundering and "narco terrorists" and control the strength of  the peso.
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Many cocaine swallowers have gone belly-up with the introduction of new anti-drug trafficking strategies.
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Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu, who has tested positive for cocaine, says he wants his B sample to be tested outside of the country because he did not trust English testing proceduries, his agent said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- An investigation by the Colombian Defense Ministry has found that drug traffickers and rebels from the country's largest guerrilla group infiltrated the U.S.-backed military here, paying high-ranking officers for classified information to help elude capture and continue smuggl...
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LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradication  of coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drug  traffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drug  production there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,  Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - Costa Rican authorities seized almost two tonnes of cocaine on two speed boats on Monday, the latest capture in a series of large, U.S.-backed drug operations in the Central American country.
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Although opium production is up in Afghanistan, cocaine consumption is rising in Europe and trafficking is growing in Africa, drug abuse is being brought under control.
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President Alan Garcia on Tuesday suggested an unorthodox use for the coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine: Why not toss it in a salad?
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Colombia, locked in a 40-year war fueled by the drug trade, has made gains in restoring order and economic growth but needs more international help to secure
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Colombia&#039;s coca crop increased by 8 percent last year despite a U.S.-backed eradication campaign that was the largest in history, U.N. drug officials said Tuesday.
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Emerging economic expansion in Latin America fuels continued growth.
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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.
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Un intero municipio (circoscrizione) di Roma ha deciso di bandire la Coca-Cola dai distributori automatici di uffici e scuole. Un boicottaggio che nasce addirittura per protestare contro la situazione sindacale in Colombia.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peru's new government plans a fresh   push against rising cocaine production in the world's No. 2   producer, betting on U.S. support to slash coca crops and catch   narcotics at ports, officials said on Wednesday.