Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos took an unexpected jab at a the United States-led war on drugs when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling it “perhaps more harmful than all…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos is a world leader in trying to reform global drug policy. But when he spoke at the recent United Nations drug summit and tallied his…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos told the United Nations on Thursday that successful peace deals with the country’s main guerrilla groups would make a big dent in the drug trade, boosting the country’s…
The War on Drugs, kicked off by late US President Richard Nixon has proven to be “a failed and counterproductive strategy,” said the London School of Economics Monday ahead of a…
The United States will support Colombia’s new counter-narcotics policy that puts more focus on crop restitution rather than aerial fumigation, said Colombia’s defense minister on Tuesday.
The United States Congress is debating a bill that seeks to target all chains in the global drug trade and could lead to Colombian coca farmers being charged in the US.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos told attendees of the International Conference on Drugs on Tuesday that a new approach and a global consensus is essential to overcoming drug trafficking and abuse.
Colombia’s justice minister called on the United Nations to debate radical changes in global drug policies, including the decriminalization of drug use and softer punishment for minor drug trafficking offenses.
The chief of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) in Colombia has urged authorities to move the fight against drugs away from cocaine and toward new synthetic…