Colombia decrees bombing of FARC dissidents
Colombia’s defense minister has issued a decree that allows the military to bomb groups formed by former FARC guerrillas, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. Directive 37 includes the FARC dissident…
Colombia’s defense minister has issued a decree that allows the military to bomb groups formed by former FARC guerrillas, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. Directive 37 includes the FARC dissident…
United States President Donald Trump reportedly has sent a letter to his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos to support hardly successful efforts to curb coca cultivation. The letter would be…
Colombia seeks the decriminalization of small coca farmers who produce much of the cocaine consumed abroad, reported newspaper El Tiempo on Thursday. According to the newspaper, the government means to…
Colombia is combating coca cultivation, the lowest echelon of the cocaine trade, in Guaviare, a province with a history dominated by drug trafficking. The Guaviare province is located in the…
Colombia’s defense minister said Tuesday that the United States approved the South American country’s strategy to curb cocaine trafficking Washington is now criticizing. Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas responded to…
Colombian authorities have traced an elaborate money laundering network involving Chinese citizens and the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, reported El Tiempo newspaper. A two-year operation resulted in the capture of almost…
The United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) expects coca cultivation in Colombia to increase in 2017 in spite of government efforts to remove 100,000 hectares this year. The agency released…
Colombia’s prosecutor general on Saturday called on the government to consider resuming aerial fumigation on claims crop substitution targets for this year will not be met. In an interview with…
US support for Colombia’s peace process will backfire unless counter-narcotics policies are implemented with much greater patience, according to a new report from a major Colombian think tank. According to…