Colombia will deploy an extra 5,000 men in a pilot campaign to eradicate coca, the crop used to produce cocaine, while kick-starting crop substition programs that seek to curb an explosive growth…
The Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) has produced a report in which it is critical of anti-drug strategies pursued by Colombia, declaring punitive and prohibitionist policies a failure and suggesting a move…
A forum on “Solutions to the Problem of Illicit Drugs”, calling for increased social investment to gradually replace the economic reality surrounding narcotic trafficking, production and consumption in Colombia, concluded…
Colombia’s state council on Wednesday condmned the government’s “indiscriminate” spraying of herbicides in southern Colombia and ordered the Ministry of Defense and the National Police to reforest multiple properties. In…
Poison is sprayed on Illicit crops with “bad aim” admitted Minsiter of Agriculture Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar during a meeting with farmers in the western department of Nariño, reported Radio Caracol…
A man has died and seven others are seriously ill after drinking homemade liquor contaminated by government anti-coca pesticide, reported Fox News Latino. The victims fell ill 20 minutes after drinking…
Authorities have suspended the fumigation of coca plantations in west Colombia following days of community protests. Up to 5000 people have been blocking roads near the Panama border in the…
After a week of negotiations, 2,000 people displaced from Bajo Cauca to Taraza in the Antioquia department reach an agreement with the local government to return home. The exodus began…
Negotiations between local government officials and 2,500 displaced people in the town of Taraza in the Antioquia department have reached a deadlock as the farmers demand an end to crop fumigation, Caracol Radio…