Colombian drug traffickers pose ‘ongoing threat’ to US
United States President Barack Obama extended sanctions on Thursday that bans US companies from...
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US freezes assets of Colombian drug kingpin
The United States on Wednesday froze the assets of the Colombian drug lord Jose Evaristo Linares Castillo under the Kingpin Act. Linares Castillo was labeled as a “Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker (SDNT)” by...
US targets Hezbollah’s South American money laundering ring
The U.S. Treasury Department named four Lebanese men, one of whom also has Colombian citizenship, as drug kingpins and terrorists for allegedly laundering money in a South American scheme that was suspected of funding Muslim...
Colombia’s justice minister not aware of extradition request for Uribe’s niece
Colombia’s justice minister said Tuesday he has “no knowledge” of a U.S. extradition request for the niece of former President Alvaro Uribe, accused of working for the world’s most wanted drug lord,...
