The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) predicts at least four heads of Colombia’s most powerful drug cartels will be extradited to the United States within three months, according to newspaper…
Reports that the top leader of Colombian drug cartel Los Rastrojos turned himself in to U.S. authorities are false, crime analysis website InSight Crime reported Wednesday. Several Colombian and Spanish…
The top leader of the Rastrojos drug gang, alias “Comba,” has turned himself over to U.S. authorities, Colombian and Spanish media reported Wednesday. Los Rastrojos news archive According to reports,…
Local authorities, analysts and statistics clashed with U.K. daily The Guardian Wednesday after the newspaper claimed Medellin’s security improvements over the past ten years had been “blown apart” by drug…
Fighting between drug gangs makes Cali the most violent city in Colombia, with a murder rate of 75.7 homicides per 100,000 residents, international news agency AFP said Wednesday. According to the…
Police captured 15 suspected members of the neoparamilitary drug traffickers the “Urabeños,” in Colombia’s northern department of Cordoba, said local media Thursday. According to reports, authorities captured the criminals in…
A body found in northwestern Colombia could be a land rights campaigner who disappeared March 24, an NGO reported Wednesday. It was found in the mouth of the river Pavarando traveling…
A land rights campaigner and his teenage son have been disappeared by “paramilitaries” in the northwest of Colombia, an NGO said Monday. Manuel Ruiz, a community leader in the Pacific…
Colombian authorities have captured one of the leaders of the country’s largest neo-paramilitary organization, “Los Urabeños”, reported local media Thursday. Jose Gregorio Martinez Cabana, alias “El Gato,” was charge of…