The United States ambassador in Colombia on multiple occasions implied that the country’s peace process helped boom cocaine production. He could be entirely wrong. Ambassador Kevin Whitaker is right in…
Lawmakers from a wide range of parties have begun working on new legislation that would legalize the production and consumption of marijuana for recreational purposes. The new policy would undo…
US President Donald Trump on Monday praised Colombia’s new leader Ivan Duque for winning on an anti-drug platform and pledged to partner with his administration to “eradicate coca in his…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said Sunday he will sign a decree that would allow police to confiscate small amounts of drugs from presumed consumers, despite warnings this would be in…
Colombian president Ivan Duque on Sunday announced measures that will see police be given the powers to confiscate minimum doses of drugs that were previously legalized for personal use. Duque…
The war on drugs could get ugly in Colombia after the country’s new government said it would ignore crop substitution agreements made with 75,000 coca-growing families and send in the military.…
Plagued by weak government and violent opposition from drug traffickers, Colombia is unlikely to meet the target of removing 50,000 hectares of coca through crop substitution before May. The strategy…
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.…
Cocaine from Colombia accounts for 92% of what is seized on the streets of the United States, according a report by the United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Entitled ‘‘Colombian…