The minister of interior and justice called for more manpower to fight FARC and ELN cocaine trafficking operations in Norte de Santander near the Venezuelan border, the minister’s website reported…
President Juan Manuel Santos has announced the imposition of new military measures to stop guerrillas and drug traffickers that are currently operating with little opposition in the jungle department of…
The New York District Attorney General’s Office has formally accused a Swedish citizen of making arms sale agreements with an undercover agent posing as a FARC member, Spanish news agency…
The interior and justice minister has announced that coca production in 2010 fell by 12% and areas used for the cultivation of coca dropped by 13%, El Espectador reported Thursday.…
Three FARC guerrillas have been convicted in Seattle on charges of drug-trafficking and money laundering, U.S. media reported on Wednesday. The defendants, Miguel Antonio Jimenez Torres, 40, Hector Fabio Zapata…
Authorities have captured two suspected members of the criminal drug trafficking band Los Rastrojos, among them the presumed extortion chief. The arrests took place in the southwest city of Cali on…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos presented the “Plan Troya Pacifico,” a new course of action to combat criminal drug trafficking bands in the southwestern departments of Nariño, Cauca and Valle…
A Colombian soldier has killed one member of an indigenous community and injured two others in Cauca, southwest Colombia, various local media reported Thursday. Members of the army were apparently…
The Colombian Supreme Court has begun preliminary investigations into a further case against former Senator Mario Uribe Escobar, regarding ties to extradited drug trafficker Juan Carlos Sierra, alias “El Tuso,”…