Colombia’s counternarcotics policy falling apart
Colombia’s security forces forcibly eradicated 30% less coca in the first four months of the year compared to last years efforts, not exactly the 40% increase promised to the US…
Colombia’s security forces forcibly eradicated 30% less coca in the first four months of the year compared to last years efforts, not exactly the 40% increase promised to the US…
The Colombian government thought it could outsmart farmers by taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to resume the aerial spraying of coca. Turns out farmers aren’t stupid. In the latest…
Cocaine production in Colombia went up 8% in 2019 and reached an all-time high, according to the US government. The estimated increase from 879 to 951 tons is a major…
US President Donald Trump told his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque that “you’re going to have to spray” coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, ahead of a meeting in the White…
Former coca farmers from Colombia’s “Peace Laboratory” fear a return to war if the government doesn’t live up to the peace process’ coca substitution program. Briceño, a municipality of 8,000…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday reminded the government it can forget aerial fumigation of coca if it doesn’t help farmers substitute crops as agreed. The court reminder comes days after…
Colombia’s government reportedly ended its cooperation with the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in monitoring the counternarcotics strategy that was part of a 2016 peace deal with…
Colombia’s defense minister said Tuesday that he his US counterpart agreed to dramatically increase the forced eradication of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, to 130,000 hectares. Defense Minister Carlos…
Colombia’s coca growers demand the resignation of the director of the government program to voluntarily eradicate coca, as the country’s counternarcotics strategy is collapsing. The claim of Hernando Londoño, the…