The annual festival of Florencia in southern Colombia unwillingly turned into a 21st century version of Woodstock after the military burned seized marijuana, according to local media. According to website…
The international community “shines in absence” when it comes to combating the cultivation of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, in Colombia, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said Thursday. Coca…
US President Donald Trump is maintaining a national emergency over the “extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy” posed by drug traffickers from Colombia. The emergency status…
Colombia’s Office of the Inspector General announced it would investigate 36 policemen and 14 soldiers for their involvement in a massacre in which east least seven farmers were killed earlier…
Former Medellin and Norte del Valle Cartel members have come out in defense of former President Alvaro Uribe’s brother, whose murder and conspiracy trial starts Friday. Santiago Uribe will have…
According to Colombia’s authorities, dissident FARC guerrillas launched mortars into a crowd of police and citizens, but locals and human rights organizations claim police opened fire on coca growers in…
The dissident EPL guerrilla group is seeking inclusion in a peace process currently underway with the much larger FARC. The EPL formally demobilized in 1991, but a dissident faction remained…
Colombia’s congress unilaterally changed a transitional justice system agreed with demobilized FARC rebels last year. The former guerrillas say the peace deal has received a “deep stab.” Congress decided to…
At least two Homeland Security agents took cash and prostitutes from Colombian crime lords in exchange for erasing their criminal records, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ). In…