Two of Colombia’s most powerful paramilitary successor groups are engaged in talks with authorities to negotiate their demobilization, according to the government of the Antioquia province. The groups allegedly in…
A bomb that exploded in central Colombia on Wednesday is raising fears that a recently split dissident group from the FARC is carrying out guerrilla attacks. The bomb was attached to a motorcycle…
One Colombian soldier was killed and three were injured in clashes between government forces and drug traffickers in the northeast of the country on Sunday. The soldier was killed as fighting broke…
Fighting between leftist ELN rebels and neo-paramilitary rivals from the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) forced the displacement of the inhabitants of a village in west Colombia. The mass displacement…
Dozens of marijuana growers in one of Colombia’s most war-torn regions have formed the country’s first legal medical marijuana cooperative. Justice Minister Jorge Eduardo Londoño announced “Caucannabis” during a presentation while visiting the…
A massive air based operation has destroyed more than 100 cocaine laboratories in central Colombia allegedly belonging to the FARC’s dissident 1st Front, authorities said Tuesday. The operation led by the Air Force…
Authorities in western Colombia seized two tons of cocaine in an operation targeting the country’s largest paramilitary successor group. The Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) took an estimated 57…
The “last of Colombia’s great capos,” Daniel “El Loco Barrera,” was cooperating with justice and seeking a voluntary surrender ahead of his arrest, his lawyer claimed in a memo obtained by…
While a top Colombian anti-narcotics official racked up accolades for putting narcos behind bars, he secretly built his own drug trafficking network. Now, he will pay the price, 16 years…