255 workers killed by land mines: Gov’t
255 “manual coca eradicators” have been killed by mines while performing their duties, reported the government on Tuesday. The official number of deaths while performing duties of destroying coca crops…
255 “manual coca eradicators” have been killed by mines while performing their duties, reported the government on Tuesday. The official number of deaths while performing duties of destroying coca crops…
The cultivation of coca in Peru has gone up in 2011, but slightly less than in Colombia which remains the world’s largest producer of coca, the United Nations says. According…
A police helicopter pilot has been injured when alleged FARC rebels opened fire at the helicopter giving air support to counter-narcotics operations in central Colombia, local media reported Sunday. According…
A bill seeking to decriminalize the cultivation of illegal crops in Colombia was debated again by Colombia’s Congress on Tuesday. If passed, the bill authored by Liberal Party representative Hugo…
Chinese herbicide worth over $6.5 million has caused friction between Colombian anti-narcotics police and U.S. embassy to Bogota, reported newspaper El Espectador Monday The glyphosate used for the eradication of…
Cultivation of coca crops in indigenous reserves in southwest Colombia is increasing, said head of anti-narcotics police department, general Luis Alberto Pérez Alvarán on Monday. According to Perez, drug-traffickers are…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC control 93% of coca and marijuana crops in the southwestern Cauca department, the National Police told Congress Friday. According to newspaper El Tiempo, Police director…
Colombia’s police started to manually eradicate coca plantations along the Colombian-Ecuadorean border on Wednesday in an effort to destroy 12,000 acres of coca cultivation. Mobile eradication groups are focusing on the…
Colombian and Ecuadorean police have destroyed seven drug laboratories and detained seven presumed drug traffickers in a joint operation on the border between the two countries, reported various media Friday.…