Colombia’s defense minister and interior and justice minister say they will ask the G8 for more military intelligence cooperation to stop the rise of narco-trafficking groups. Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera…
Coca cultivation has declined by more than 50% in Colombia’s north-western Antioquia department since 2008, according to government statistics, newspaper El Tiempo reports. The government program uses aerial spraying and manual…
Colombian media report that four workers who were eradicating coca were killed in north-eastern Colombia on Thursday when a landmine exploded. Earlier reports said the landmine injured 12, but this…
Twelve workers were injured in northern Colombia on Wednesday when a landmine exploded while they were eradicating coca plants. The incident happened near the town of Santa Rosa in the…
Colombia’s illicit crop eradication strategy will cost the country more than $1.5 billion between 2010 and 2013, a figure almost double what was spent between 2003 and 2009, El Dinero…
Colombian authorities announced Tuesday that 40,689 hectares of illicit crops have been eradicated manually so far in 2009. According to a press release on the website of the Colombia agency…