Turf wars biggest threat to post-FARC peace in Colombia: UN
Wars over control over the cultivation of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, is the biggest threat to benefits of a pending peace deal with the FARC and the…
Wars over control over the cultivation of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, is the biggest threat to benefits of a pending peace deal with the FARC and the…
Colombia’s government and FARC rebels on Friday agreed to a pilot project that seeks farmers’ voluntary substitution of coca crops, used for the production of cocaine, for legal crops. A crop…
It was almost six in the evening when we arrived at the house of an important local leader in a remote part of the department of Guaviare. We sat down…
Colombian authorities confirmed a return to using the possibly carcinogenic chemical glyphosate for spraying coca crops after initially banning it over public health concerns.
Colombia’s decision to return to spraying illicit crops with an allegedly cancerous chemical will kill people, according to a former top counter-narcotics official.
In an attempt to stimulate Colombia’s coca farmers to abandon illicit crops, the United Nations has set up a system to buy and sell products from farmers taking part in crop substitution programs.
Colombia’s government decided on Monday to resume using the controversial weed killer that was suspended less than a year ago amid cancer concerns, while upholding a ban on aerial spraying.
Colombia’s President will call for a complete overhaul of international drug policy including decriminalization at a United Nations Assembly on Drugs in New York on Wednesday.
Colombia is the world’s #1 producer of cocaine, according to both the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United States’ Department of State. While nobody exactly…