US support for Colombia’s peace process will backfire unless counter-narcotics policies are implemented with much greater patience, according to a new report from a major Colombian think tank. According to…
The international community “shines in absence” when it comes to combating the cultivation of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, in Colombia, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said Thursday. Coca…
Ever since the Medellin Cartel, the Antioquia province has been at the center of the cocaine trade the Colombian government is trying to curb. The country’s most infamous drug cartel…
Colombia is combating coca cultivation, the lowest echelon of the international drug trade. In the northeastern Catatumbo region this has failed for a decade. Catatumbo, located in the Norte de Santander…
Colombian authorities are combating cocaine production in some of the most remote regions. Cauca is one of the long-neglected areas where the drug trade has fueled political conflict. In spite…
Colombian authorities are combating the lowest echelons of the international drug trade, cocaine production. Nariño is one of the long-neglected areas where this is rife. Like the presidential palace in…
Colombia’s Office of the Inspector General announced it would investigate 36 policemen and 14 soldiers for their involvement in a massacre in which east least seven farmers were killed earlier…
When Colombia’s government and FARC guerrillas negotiated a deal to end the hemisphere’s longest armed conflict, they also took an unprecedented step toward a more productive and reasonable drug policy.…
According to Colombia’s authorities, dissident FARC guerrillas launched mortars into a crowd of police and citizens, but locals and human rights organizations claim police opened fire on coca growers in…