Colombian crime boss “Valenciano” was extradited from Venezuela to the United States Thursday to answer charges of drug trafficking. Valenciano was arrested during a Colombian and Venezuelan joint operation November…
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary drug gang “Los Rastrojos” has made more than a billion dollars from narco-trafficking to the United States in the last seven years, newspaper El Espectador reported Wednesday. According…
A new study says more than 3,000 square miles (800,000 hectares) of Colombia’s woodlands have been cleared since 1981 in the planting and destruction of drug crops. The study released…
Details of a heroin trafficking network coordinated from Colombia’s northern city of Barranquilla have been released following the arrest of 12 members of the drug gang on December 5. It…
Colombian authorities send Adolfo Erazo Rosero, an alleged top extortionist for Los Rastrajos neo-paramilitary group, to stand trial in the United States, Colombian media reported Wednesday. Rosero, who had evaded capture…
Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin called on the Bolivian government Tuesday to help in the fight against drug trafficking. In an effort to curtail the country’s drug trade, the…
Colombian authorities intercepted a boat carrying 1.3 tons of cocaine on the southern Pacific coast, reported La Hora newspaper Monday. An army spokesperson said the boat was travelling from the…
NarcoLeaks has released a statement criticizing the U.S. government’s response to their report on international cocaine trafficking, for underestimating both cocaine distribution in the U.S. and Colombia’s level of production.…
Venezuela said Thursday it will deport the girlfriend of arrested drug lord “Valenciano,” leader of the Medellin-based “Oficina de Envigado” to Colombia. According to newspaper El Tiempo, Viviana Cecilia Guerra…