Dominican Republic authorities seized on Monday 28 packages of cocaine from Colombia about 17 miles east from the capital, Santo Domingo. According to the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD),…
Colombian police seized 300 kilograms of pure cocaine on a bus headed for the central department of Antioquia, Colombian media reported Thursday. The drugs were being transported in boxes marked with…
An suspected Colombian drug trafficker, captured in Venezuela, had allegedly escaped the country with a large sum of money stolen from the FARC rebel group., Colombian police said Tuesday. Gildardo…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said that legalization of soft drugs, such as marijuana, would allow the war on drugs to move forward by shifting focus to harder drugs and…
The head of the FARC’s 30th Front, Jorge Naphtali Umenza Velasco, alias “Mincho,” was killed on Thursday in a bombing raid in the rural area of Buenaventura during a Navy…
The neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization ERPAC is negotiating its demobilization with Colombian government officials, newspaper El Tiempo reported. According to the newspaper, the leader of ERPAC, Jose Eberto Lopez Montero,…
A U.S. Army sergeant was arrested at Bogota’s Eldorado International Airport trying to smuggle almost two kilograms of cocaine out of Colombia. The sergeant, Deon Lemar Burton, was arrested trying…
The number of hectares of Colombian land used for coca cultivation has dropped by 62% from 402 acres in 2000 to 153 acres in 2010 according to preliminary figures from…
Colombian police seized 3.5 tons of marijuana on Tuesday in the northeast department of Norte de Santander. According to radio station Caracol Radio, the cannabis cache was seized from a…