Dissidents of demobilized guerrilla group FARC and drug trafficking group La Constru appear to have gone to war in southern Colombia after years of cooperation. According to the United Nations,…
Colombia’s army has fired its recruitment chief after the top official was detained while driving a major drug trafficker out of Bogota using a military vehicle, the defense minister said…
The fugitive leader of drug trafficking group “La Constru” has been arrested just outside Colombia’s capital Bogota, despite alleged protection from the military. Miguel Bastidas, a.k.a. “Gargola,” was arrested in…
La Constru is a paramilitary group that is active in Putumayo, one of Colombia’s most important coca cultivation regions and strategically located along the Ecuadorean border. The group first manifested itself in…
Colombia has a number of powerful drug trafficking organizations, who have tried to take control of drug trafficking previously controlled by the country’s largest guerrilla group in modern history, the…