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For decades, Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine, has persecuted drug traffickers and targeted the farming of coca plants, the natural ingredient used in cocaine. Colombia has also used ...
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced Monday that a commander of the ...
A fugitive known as Colombia’s “Contraband King” corrupted agents in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with expensive ...
Two Colombians were charged by U.S. authorities for their alleged involvement in narco-terrorism and cocaine production.
The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain ...
Nineteen police officers and 12 soldiers have been killed by armed groups in Colombia since April 15, in what President ...
Colombian president Gustavo Petro says his former foreign minister is part of an “international plot” to oust him after the onetime ally accused him of being a drug “addict” for the second time in thr ...
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There is "diversification in global cocaine consumption, which is extremely significant," said Leonardo Correa, who oversees research on Colombia's cocaine trade for the U.N. There is potential ...
Comandos de la Frontera controls cocaine trafficking routes between Colombia's Nariño department and Ecuador's Sucumbíos province, collaborating with Ecuadorian gangs like Los Lobos. Frente ...
Former foreign minister Alvaro Leyva accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro of drug addiction during a 2023 Paris trip. Leyva's ties with Petro soured after his suspension in 2024 over a passport ...
MICAY CANYON, Colombia—One potent tributary in the surging cocaine pipeline begins in the mountains of Cauca province, where nearly every plot of arable land sprouts coca leaves. On Cesar Rosero ...