President Gustavo Petro announced that his government plans to buy coca from farmers while they are integrated into Colombia’s legal economy. The announcement immediately spurred controversy, because of international legislation…
Farmers from multiple parts of Colombia say cocaine sales have collapsed after a surge in the production of the illicit drug. In an interview, coca farmers’ representative Leidy Diaz told…
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…
Ivanka Trump, the daughter and adviser of United States President Trump, is interested in US support for a UN-monitored counternarcotics program, according to Colombia’s vice-president. So far, the US has…
Heavily armed men have displaced entire townships in northern Colombia after the government refused to compensate former coca farmers, according to the United Nations. The local farmers’ association ASCSCUCOR said…
Farmers have clashed with riot police in northern Colombia, with 400 demonstrating against government failures to help change farms from coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, to legal crops. Farmers…
A farmers’ representative who was leading local efforts to voluntarily eradicate coca in southwest Colombia was brutally murdered together with his two sons on Saturday, according to the coca growers…
Colombia’s counter-narcotics policy is on the brink of failure after more than 28 community leaders and almost 200 farmers were assassinated, according to the coca growers federation. According to COCCAM, the…