Colombia’s state institutions — with the help of top US officials — are undergoing a major anti-corruption purge in a joint attempt to allow the country’s government to effectively implement…
Colombia’s government dismissed US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s claim that “it is necessary to resume fumigation” of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, reported newspaper El Tiempo. According to…
US President Donald Trump failed to endorse, or even mention Colombia’s peace process in his speech following his first meeting with his counterpart Juan Manuel Santos in what seemed a major…
Colombia has eradicated the first of many coca plants the government vowed to replace by legal crops. Drug trafficking groups have already begun to violently frustrate this. President Juan Manuel…
Panama President Juan Carlos Varela spurred indignation in Bogota after claiming Colombia’s peace process was causing an increase in drug-related violence in his country. Panamanian soldiers had killed four Colombian…
Local authorities are “overwhelmed” by the chaos and violence that submerged the southwest of Colombia following the demobilization of Marxist FARC guerrillas, the governor of Nariño said Tuesday. Nariño is the home…
Resistance to Colombia’s efforts to forcibly eradicate coca is causing uprisings across the country and moving into new levels of militancy, as shown by civilians’ detention of 11 policemen in the southwest…
A conservative politician in the north of Colombia was allegedly linked to a record cocaine seizure made last weekend by National Police, according to reports by El Tiempo newspaper on Sunday.…
Colombia’s authorities claimed Tuesday they had seized more cocaine in the first three months of 2017 than in the same period ever before. The country has experienced an almost unprecedented boom in coca…