Colombia’s EPL guerrilla group released nine hostages on Sunday, a day after kidnapping them in a northeastern department along the Venezuela border, local media reported. The nine hostages kidnapped on…
Drug traffickers from Colombia have agreed to testify in the United States against Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín Guzman, a.k.a. “El Chapo,” reported newspaper El Espectador Friday. The district attorney from the Eastern…
Colombia’s government acknowledged on Friday the threat of dissident FARC guerrillas following the seizure of 500 kilograms of cocaine in southwest Colombia. The seizure of the high-purity cocaine which belonged…
Colombia’s armed forces seized a record 378.3 tons of cocaine in 2016, nearly 50 percent more than the year before, while murders were down by 4 percent, Defense Minister Luis…
Colombia’s government aims to get rid of 100,000 hectares of coca in 2017 as the country prepares to implement its post-war counter-narcotics strategy. The ambitious goal, announced by defense minister Luis Carlos Villegas…
Two people died and 23 were injured when unknown assailants threw a grenade into a bar early Tuesday in Colombia’s most southwestern city, Tumaco. Tumaco’s government secretary, Edwin Palma, told W Radio that…
Four officers from the Colombian Navy were arrested for allowing drug trafficking operations they were supposed to counter, reported El Espectador newspaper on Sunday. The officers, two of whom are…
Colombia’s largest paramilitary successor group, the AGC, a.k.a. “Los Urabeños,” are moving troops to central Colombia to reinforce their presence in former FARC territory, according to the military. The Gaitanista…
One of Colombia’s most notorious commanders of drug trafficking neo-paramilitary group AGC was extradited to the United States on Thursday, according to Argentine police. In an operation involving Interpol, US marshals and…