A court in the United States has indicted four of Colombia’s leading emerald miners and one former mayor with drug trafficking and is seeking their extradition, newspaper El Tiempo reported…
A number of alleged drug traffickers who were claiming to be FARC guerrillas in order to avoid extradition to the United States have been excluded from Colombia’s ongoing peace process,…
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed part of report detailing that coca cultivation in Colombia has risen to 146,000 hectares in 2016 from 96,000 hectares in 2015.…
Colombian police confirmed the capture on Saturday of a Mexican woman and alleged member of the Sinaloa Cartel wanted by the United States on cocaine trafficking charges. Marcela Florez, also…
The first five months of the coca substitution program launched as part of Colombia’s peace process with the FARC guerrilla group has seen over 75,000 families agree to eradicate more…
Colombian police have extradited eight people — including a former member of the Venezuelan military — to the United States over drug trafficking. According to reports in the Nuevo Herald,…
Investigations into Colombia’s jailed anti-corruption chief have taken a new twist with the revelation that prosecutors are now re-examining his wive’s previously dismissed drug trafficking charges. According to an investigation…
A UN official has been released by dissidents FARC rebels more than two months after being kidnapped in southern Colombia. Harley Lopez, an official for the UN Office on Drugs…
With the arrest of nine alleged members of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), authorities have arrested 223 alleged members of the country’s largest illegal armed group so far…