Colombia’s defense minister may have to tell the US government he screwed up the involvement of American soldiers in counternarcotics operations for the second time in three months. Approximately 50…
US support for Colombia’s peace process will backfire unless counter-narcotics policies are implemented with much greater patience, according to a new report from a major Colombian think tank. According to…
Colombia’s Office of the Inspector General announced it would investigate 36 policemen and 14 soldiers for their involvement in a massacre in which east least seven farmers were killed earlier…
When Colombia’s government and FARC guerrillas negotiated a deal to end the hemisphere’s longest armed conflict, they also took an unprecedented step toward a more productive and reasonable drug policy.…
Colombia’s national authorities have begun investigating whether police last week committed a massacre that was blamed on dissident FARC guerrillas. On Monday, the National Police announced it would suspend four…
As evidence and claims mounted that an anti-narcotics unit killed 15 coca growers in Colombia’s worst massacre in years, President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday said that “our public force…
According to Colombia’s authorities, dissident FARC guerrillas launched mortars into a crowd of police and citizens, but locals and human rights organizations claim police opened fire on coca growers in…
Colombia’s security forces have had at least twenty-one major clashes with coca farmers in the past year amid claims the government is breaking agreements made with farmers through a new…
One farmer was killed and another two injured in clashes between coca growers and soldiers over the forced eradication of the plant in the southwest of Colombia. The deadly clash…