Colombia’s drug trade
Some 4% of the world’s population, some 300 million people, has consumed cocaine in their life. Colombia produced an estimated 70% of the cocaine consumed over the past year. In…
Some 4% of the world’s population, some 300 million people, has consumed cocaine in their life. Colombia produced an estimated 70% of the cocaine consumed over the past year. In…
Colombia’s prosecution have arrested a former police colonel and a former police captain who allegedly managed assets of paramilitary group AGC, local media reported Tuesday. The police’s former operations chief…
Evidence that Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe is hiring Sinaloa Cartel pilots is impossible to ignore 40 years after he granted the Medellin Cartel some 200 licenses. The trial against…
Colombia’s security forces have been involved in the drug trade since the beginning. On the Caribbean coast, cops began extorting marijuana traders in the 1960s and ended up being their…
Colombia’s Supreme Court “begged” the United States government to cooperate and substantiate its claim that a missing FARC congressman conspired to traffic drugs, according to Blu Radio. In a letter…
Politicians in Colombia’s coffee region are giving away drugs to sway consumers to vote for them, according to community leaders. According to a representative of the federation of Community Action…
Questions remain 30 years after presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan was assassinated by Medellin Cartel assassins just south of Colombia’s capital Bogota. The violent death of the anti-corruption advocate is…
Colombia’s Congress summoned the government of President Ivan Duque to explain what it has done to curb extreme levels of violence against the country’s indigenous peoples. The Senate’s Peace Commission…
Colombia’s national indigenous organization ONIC declared a humanitarian emergency on Friday over an escalation in ethnic violence against native Colombians. Two more were assassinated the day after. The ONIC said…