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Coca cultivation in Bolivia reached record levels for the third consecutive year, in an expansion that appears to be driven by global demand for cocaine rather than by the country’s legal coca leaf markets.

Defense lawyers argued in a Virginia courtroom that Sebastián Marset "studiously avoided" the United States, asking a federal judge to dismiss narco-terrorism and money laundering charges on the grounds that his alleged criminal empire operated entirely outside American borders.

The use of liquids to conceal and traffic cocaine through commercial supply chains is growing, and driving an evolution in Europe’s role in the global cocaine supply chain

When federal agents reached out to Sebastián Marset through his girlfriend in March 2025 to persuade him to surrender, the Uruguayan drug lord who styled himself the “King of the South” mocked them

Jhonsson Smit Cruz Torres, alias “Jhonsson Pulpo,” the alleged leader of the Peruvian criminal group the Pulpos, was arrested in Bolivia on September 1.

A federal judge has scheduled a January 2027 trial date for accused Uruguayan drug lord Sebastián Marset, rebuffing prosecutors’ attempts to further delay a logistically complex case that now includes new narcoterrorism charges.

In an extraordinary letter to a federal judge, Sebastián Marset claimed U.S. agents pressured his mother for his digital wallet access keys following an "irregular rendition" from Bolivia, prompting him to fire his American defense team.

An international police sweep dismantled a leading Balkan Cartel drug trafficking cell Wednesday, arresting 12 suspects tied to the intercontinental smuggling of more than 4.2 tonnes of cocaine and cannabis.

That year, the self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” had introduced radical economic reforms, including budget cuts, layoffs, pension and subsidy reductions, sparking widespread public anger, massive demonstrations, and national strikes.

In his first public court appearance following his recent extradition from Bolivia, alleged South American drug lord Sebastián Marset was remanded in custody without bail by a federal judge in Virginia on Friday.

On July 16, 2024, seven Russian operatives arrived in La Paz, Bolivia’s political capital.

Bolivian authorities arrested former Interior Minister Arturo Murillo on Thursday following his extradition from the United States, where he had been serving a prison sentence for money laundering, the Interior Ministry said.

The 11 men are said to have “intercepted” the 12-year-old girl at a cultural event she was attending with her family in the Bolivian city off Oruro, before plying her with alcohol, taking her to a remote area and raping her