Colombia’s coca growers demand the resignation of the director of the government program to voluntarily eradicate coca, as the country’s counternarcotics strategy is collapsing. The claim of Hernando Londoño, the…
“The war has returned!” a journalist from southern Colombia decried after the 13th assassination this year in Puerto Guzman, a locality with less than 5,000 inhabitants. This war over Putumayo…
The United States government will invest “billions of dollars” in rural development as part of its counternarcotics strategy in Colombia, a top official said Thursday. During a visit to Tumaco,…
The governors of the provinces where most of Colombia’s coca is grown have rejected the national government’s intentions to resume the aerial fumigation of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine.…
The military’s collusion with what the United States considers Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization is undermining the government’s legitimacy, President Ivan Duque was told on Wednesday. Victims representative Leyner Palacios…
Former President Alvaro Uribe facilitated drug trafficking between Colombia and Mexico while he was in office, the former security chief of a cargo airliner told an exiled prosecution investigator. The…
Colombia’s government on Monday announced the resumption of the controversial aerial fumigation of coca with glyphosate for the second time in a year. The use of glyphosate in areal spraying…
While desperately trying to meet coca eradication targets, Colombia’s government appears to be cooking the books on the human casualties and inventing resowing statistics. According to newspaper El Tiempo, policemen,…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque signed off on a law that allows mayors to determine where alcohol and drugs may or may not be consumed. The police code introduced by Duque’s…