Marijuana should be legalized worldwide: Santos
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…
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…
Colombia’s anti-narcotics police discovered and raided a cocaine mega-lab in the Eastern Plains belonging to neo-paramilitary gang ERPAC, Colombian media reported Friday. The laboratory, found in Puerto Gaitan, Meta, is…
A Colombian drug kingpin who was part of a cartel that smuggled at least 30 tons of cocaine into the U.S. pleaded guilty Thursday to U.S. trafficking charges and is…
Colombian pharmacy chain Drogas La Rebaja has been allegedly fueled by drug trafficking money from the Cali Cartel since the 1980’s, although employees and shareholders claim they were unaware of…