Sentences with phrase «grow coca»

It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities, or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner.

It is important to understand why such farmers grow coca.

«They don't have the money to support us, and the pressure to continue [growing coca] is fierce,» a community leader in the isolated southwest municipality of Tumaco — a global hub for coca — said in late 2016, after a deadly clash between state security forces and farmers protesting efforts to destroy their coca.

Not exact matches

«So if it's no - man's land and you see your neighbor's now got waist - high coca bushes, and they're two years old and nobody's messed with him, it's probably pretty tempting to grow it yourself,» Isacson said.

Under the watchful eye of cartel operatives, coca leaves are converted into cocaine, usually in Colombia, Peru, or Bolivia, in labs near the fields where they're grown.

While coca, unlike avocados, isn't grown in Mexico — it comes from South America's Andes Mountains — cocaine is arguably a Mexican export.

But the most daring drug story of all comes from coca - growing Bolivia, where powdered chiles are mixed with powdered cocaine and snorted for what is supposedly the ultimate rush.

Efforts to eradicate coca in the coffee - growing nations of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are funded by your tax dollar, to the tune of $ 5 billion so far.

Because of coca - growing and other agriculture, 1,235 acres of forest surrounding the Gorgeted Puffleg's habitat are devastated each year, according to the Hummingbird Conservancy.

Like the rest of its Puffleg brethern, it has «little cotton balls above [its] legs,» said Luis Mazariegos - Hurtado, who has spent 30 years documenting hummingbirds and founded the Colombian Hummingbird Conservancy, in an interview with the AP.The bird's tiny territory in the Cauca province is under siege, however, by the environmentally destructive drugs industry, which relies on slashing and burning vast swathes of land for growing illegal crops such as coca, otherwise known as the raw material in cocaine.