Exceptional: Spain finds 6 tons of cocaine in Colombia banana shipment
Authorities from Spain said Monday that they had seized a shipment of bananas from Colombia in which drug traffickers had put six metric tons of cocaine. The drug shipment —…
Authorities from Spain said Monday that they had seized a shipment of bananas from Colombia in which drug traffickers had put six metric tons of cocaine. The drug shipment —…
Authorities in southwest Colombia said Tuesday they are investigating reports claiming at least 13 people were killed in fighting between guerrillas. According to Spanish press agency EFE, some 8 people…
The United States will ask to resume aerial fumigation of coca if a United Nations-monitored crop substitution strategy fails to curb record cocaine production levels, according to Vice-President Oscar Naranjo.…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday said he has no faith the so-called “war on drugs” will be won by persecuting drug users and coca farmers. The president of…
Colombia’s security forces have confiscated 12 metric tons of cocaine in the country’s biggest drug bust ever, President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday. The drug was found in four…
Colombia’s 100,000 coca farming families are under constant threat from drug trafficking groups trying to violently counter the substitution of the plant that is the base ingredient of cocaine. Authorities…
Colombia’s security forces have seized more than four metric tons of cocaine and closed 15 drug processing labs within 24 hours, according to the National Police. In a press release,…
Colombia agreed to invest $315 million in a United Nations-led counter-narcotics program that seeks to curb record cocaine production in the South American country. The investment would boost faltering efforts…
Forced coca eradication in Colombia is outpacing voluntary eradication by a margin of more sixteen-to-one, endangering the peace process, according to the latest assessment by Bogota-based researchers at the Fundacion…