Disgraced by revelations of drug trafficking ties, Colombia’s vice-president filed and dropped criminal charges against a crime analyst after announcing the same with the maker of an online series. Vice-President…
A massacre that left eight people dead in northeast Colombia spurred the forced displacement of some 450 people, local authorities said Monday. The massacre on Saturday in Tibu, a rural…
Colombia’s law enforcement and international agencies have spent decades trying to keep up with the ever-changing money laundering rackets that finance drug trafficking. This may feel like bringing water to…
Colombia’s opposition decided to make politics interesting by introducing a bill that seeks to end the war on drugs by decriminalizing cocaine and regulating its production. The bill is sponsored…
Laundering money is as important for Colombia’s drug trade as exporting cocaine. Without it, drug trafficking would be nothing but a hobby or a charitable activity. Following this money has…
Of all Colombia’s journalists with mafia ties, former television anchor Virginia Vallejo has been the most open about her relationship with late drug lord Pablo Escobar, which forced her to…
Colombia’s defense minister said Monday the government is ready to resume the aerial fumigation of coca after local media reported that forced eradication statistics were inflated. Defense Minister Carlos Holmes…
Colombia’s defense ministry has been reporting inflated statistics on the forced eradication of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, multiple counternarcotics officials told weekly Semana. Eight civilian eradicators and counternarcotics…
A judge gave Colombia’s President Ivan Duque 48 hours to suspend the participation of American troops in counternarcotics operations. The US sent 53 soldiers of a so-called Security Force Assistance…