Did Trump’s Colombia drug policy fail because of mafia collusion?
The governments of Colombia and the US in 2018 agreed to cut cocaine production in half by 2023. Here’s how that became a catastrophic failure. Fifteen months before US assistant…
The governments of Colombia and the US in 2018 agreed to cut cocaine production in half by 2023. Here’s how that became a catastrophic failure. Fifteen months before US assistant…
The governments of the Colombia and the US are in damage control mode after media revealed how their failing counternarcotics policy is hurting their political alliance. The US embassy and…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Monday appointed the heir of a convicted land thief and terrorism sponsor as Vice-Minister for the Promotion of Justice, further strengthening ties with organized crime.…
Thousands of indigenous people are on their way to Colombia’s capital Bogota to demand, among other things, peace policies that could protect them against drug violence. The native Colombians, specifically…
Dissident cells of the demobilized EPL guerrilla group have been popping up throughout Colombia after not leaving their stronghold along the border with Venezuela for decades. The narco-guerrillas, called “Los…
Colombia’s controversial defense minister threatened to imprison critics on Monday as the opposition is trying to have him removed from office. Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo said on Twitter that…
Colombia’s authorities don’t seem to have a clue who committed the wave of massacres that has shocked the country over the past. The only identified suspect was the police. Cali,…
Guatemala Police are investigating if President Ivan Duque’s 2018 campaign pilot died while trafficking cocaine for the Sinaloa Cartel, La Nueva Prensa reported Monday. According to the news website, police…
The Medellin Cartel’s 1988 murder of a top anti-mafia official was one of the first indications that the US-promoted “National Security Doctrine” had become “the origin of evil” in Colombia.…