Homicides in Colombia went up between 24% and 29% in the first half of 2021, undoing the security gains achieved by a 2016 peace deal with demobilized FARC guerrillas. According…
Two drug trafficking associates will preside over Colombia’s Senate and House of Representatives as President Ivan Duque finishes his term after his 2018 election with mafia support. The election of…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque appears to have given up on combating drug trafficking 50 years after the beginning of the disastrous War on Drugs. For the first time since taking…
A Bogota judge on Saturday jailed a self-proclaimed elite entrepreneur who has allegedly been trafficking drugs and laundering money since the days of the Medellin Cartel. Guillermo León Acevedo, a.k.a.…
Colombia’s potential cocaine production reached a new historic high, the United Nations reported as President Ivan Duque continues to bungle his counternarcotics policy. In its annual report, the United Nations…
Indigenous authorities in southwest Colombia said they have detained a member of a drug trafficking group who admitted to assassinating an indigenous leader. The alleged drug trafficker was detained on…
“Narcos” shot and injured an indigenous governor and at least 21 others who were removing coca from their reserve in southwest Colombia on Thursday, according to local authorities. In response…
Colombia’s prosecution arrested the former accountant of paramilitary organization AUC on charges unrelated to the ledgers that revealed ties between the mafia and Medellin’s elite. Leading former AUC member Jacinto…
Colombia’s justice minister took another step towards the aerial spraying of coca, which scholars believe will condemn the country to a new cycle of extreme violence. The decree that regulates…