Colombian Army seizes 7 drug labs
The Colombian Army destroyed seven cocaine processing labs Saturday in a sweep of several municipalities across the country. Colombian soldiers operating in the southern department of Putumayo seized three coca…
The Colombian Army destroyed seven cocaine processing labs Saturday in a sweep of several municipalities across the country. Colombian soldiers operating in the southern department of Putumayo seized three coca…
Anti-narcotics police from Colombia and Peru will synchronize manual eradication of illicit crops, such as coca, in border zones between the neighboring countries in December. General Luis Perez Alvaran, the anti-narcotics…
The number of hectares of Colombian land used for coca cultivation has dropped by 62% from 402 acres in 2000 to 153 acres in 2010 according to preliminary figures from…
The United States reported that potential cocaine production from 2009 to 2010 increased, while over the past ten years potential cocaine production has decreased by 57%. According to the report…
Aerial crop fumigations by the Colombian government may have caused irreversible genetic damage to 10% of Ecuadorean citizens living on the country’s northeastern border, revealed a study conducted by the…
Colombia’s defense minister and interior and justice minister say they will ask the G8 for more military intelligence cooperation to stop the rise of narco-trafficking groups. Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera…
After a week of negotiations, 2,000 people displaced from Bajo Cauca to Taraza in the Antioquia department reach an agreement with the local government to return home. The exodus began…
Over a period of five years an area of forest equivalent to two and a half times the size of Jamaica has been lost in Colombia, largely in regions…
Coca production in Colombia went down 3.7% in 2009, according to a report by the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy released to several media on Thursday. Colombia’s capacity…