Colombia’s government proposed legislation that would allow the legal cultivation and use of coca, cannabis and poppy for limited purposes. Current antinarcotics legislation bans the cultivation and use of the…
Only 21% of the land used for gold mining in Colombia operated legally in 2022, the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its annual report. According…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Monday that the prosecution is being used to traffic drugs and protects alleged criminals in the Pacific port city of Buenaventura. The president referred to…
Conservative and progressive liberals are threatening to leave the congressional coalition of President Gustavo Petro. In an open letter to the president, Liberal Party leader Cesar Gaviria said that “we…
Colombia’s deputy chief prosecutor Martha Mancera said President Gustavo Petro was behind allegations she has been protecting corrupt officials with ties to drug traffickers. Mancera responded to allegations made by…
Two prosecutors accused Colombia’s deputy chief prosecutor of protecting corrupt officials allegedly involved in drug trafficking. The accusation comes less than a year after jailed drug trafficker Carlos Ramon Zapata,…
Colombia’s army chief has come under scrutiny for allegedly abusing his power to spy on his wife’s English teacher. The Prosecutor General’s Office, the Inspector General’s Office and the inspector…
President Gustavo Petro said that Colombia’s government will suspend arms imports from opponents of a ceasefire between Israel’s armed forces and paramilitaries from Palestine. “Colombia will not buy weapons from…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said that his foreign minister will formally charge Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of war crimes. Petro posted on social media platform X that he supported…