Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with a U.S. delegation Tuesday to discuss ratification of the bilateral free trade agreement and to patch up disagreements over alleged drug lord…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has said that the country is in the final phase of the struggle to achieve peace in the country and has urged the armed forces…
Colombia’s defense minister has called on Congress not to grant political status to neo-paramilitary groups, as they lack any political ideology and are simply “vulgar narco-traffickers,” RCN Radio reports Wednesday. Rodrigo…
One of the main leaders of the narco-trafficking group “Los Paisas,” allegedly responsible for the alliance between his gang and fellow drug traffickers “Los Rastrojos,” has been captured by police in…
The U.S. State Department says that Colombia is still the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocaine, and warns of the “major” challenge posed by the paramilitary successor groups. The State…
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) removes Colombia from its watch list of countries with a drug trafficking problem, El Espectador reported Tuesday. The latest INCB report highlights the successes…
U.S. company ManTech will provide communications and coordination support to counter-narcotics operations in Colombia after being awarded a $6.2 million contract, the company reported Wednesday. ManTech International Corporation is based…
A Colombian former judge currently serving time for illegally releasing key narco-traffickers has his sentence halved by the Supreme Court, El Espectador reported Tuesday. Luis Eduardo Beltran was originally sentenced to 16…
An aircraft being used by narco-traffickers is stopped and seized on Colombia’s Pacific coast by the air force, El Espectador reported Tuesday. According to the article, the unregistered Piper aircraft…