Court orders release of Medellin Cartel founder Carlos Lehder
A Bogota court ordered the release of founding Medellin Cartel member Carlos Lehder, claiming his arrest on Friday had been illegal. Lehder was arrested after he returned to Colombia 38…
A Bogota court ordered the release of founding Medellin Cartel member Carlos Lehder, claiming his arrest on Friday had been illegal. Lehder was arrested after he returned to Colombia 38…
Colombia’s migration authority jailed Medellin Cartel founder Carlos Lehder after he arrived in the capital Bogota on Friday. Lehder was detained on El Dorado Airport while trying to enter the…
Colombia’s Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia asked the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, from its list of harmful substances. At a commission…
Colombia’s government and security forces have been struggling to maintain control over a town in the southwest of the country that has been controlled by guerrillas for decades. Guerrillas and…
The government announced to restart a crop restitution program in the northeast in of Colombia as part of a plan to attack the finances of guerrilla group ELN. The resumption…
Colombia’s potential cocaine exports soared to a record 1,925 metric tons in 2023, despite increasingly successful efforts to intercept drug shipments, according to numbers released by the United Nations and…
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…
One of Colombia’s best online publications, Voragine, said Thursday that it will suspend reporting on paramilitary groups and drug trafficking because of “situations that compromise our security.” The decision implies…
The director of Colombia’s State Legal Defense Agency (ANDJE), Cesar Palomino, owned a company whose ship was caught transporting marihuana between Pacific ports twice, according to news website La Silla…