At least 1500 coca plants uprooted in western Colombia
At least 1,500 coca plants were manually uprooted and destroyed by members of the army and national police in Western Colombia, Colombia’s media reported on Tuesday.
At least 1,500 coca plants were manually uprooted and destroyed by members of the army and national police in Western Colombia, Colombia’s media reported on Tuesday.
Roughly 25,000 coca plants were found on just over 12 acres of land in Colombia’s central state of Boyaca, along with drug production laboratories, reported W Radio.
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, said Tuesday it would support the creation of an ‘‘international coordinating body’’ to monitor the cultivation of coca, poppy and marijuana in the context…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday called on world leaders to heighten international cooperation on drug use and trafficking.
Colombia has announced it will continue US-funded glyphosate spraying after it was temporarily suspended following an alleged FARC attack on two aircraft which killed a US pilot and injured two.
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, released a proposal Tuesday that outlined their plan to decriminalize the production of coca, poppy and marijuana. This plan will be discussed as a…
Peace talks between Colombia’s government and the country’s largest rebel group the FARC start back up on Monday, initiating the first rounds of peace talks for 2014, as the negotiators…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Monday proposed to decriminalize the cultivation of illicit crops and approach illicit drug use as a public health rather than a public security…
The United Nations’s representative in Colombia on Sunday called on the country’s authorities to improve its road and economic infrastructure in order to decrease the number of farmers growing coca.