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…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro ordered his peace commissioner to seek talks with “Los Pachenca,” one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the Caribbean region. Los Pachenca, who are…
President Gustavo Petro authorized a “socio-judicial conversation” with the EGC, Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization. According to a presidential decree, this conversation seeks to convince the EGC’s top commanders of the…
Extradited Medellin crime lord Diego Fernando Murillo, a.k.a. “Don Berna,” asked President Gustavo Petro to allow him to take part in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia. In a letter to the…
Violence in Colombia’s port cities on the Caribbean coast is soaring despite efforts by President Gustavo Petro to implement his “Total Peace” policy. Local authorities in Cartagena, Barranquilla and Santa…
The National Police identified 175 alleged drug lords who control much of Colombia’s cocaine exports, according to an intelligence report given to W Radio. The report is the result of…