The recent capture of several leaders of the Camorra and the ‘Ndragheta highlights the extensive operations of European crime ...

Cocaine production in South America is surging, with a United Nations report estimating a 53% increase in output from 2022 to 2023, reaching 2,664 metric tons. In fact, farmers in Colombia ...

The demobilization of an ELN faction is a symbolic rather than substantive step forward for Colombia’s Total Peace policy.

Farmers, particularly in Colombia, have become so efficient ... Office on Drugs and Crime suggested a 53 percent rise in cocaine production from one year to the next in 2023, with a yield of ...

Colombia has led the world in cocaine production since the days of iconic drug lord Pablo Escobar and most comes from the Pacific side of the country. Getting the drugs from where they’re made ...

Colombia has urged the UN to remove ... country set a new record last year for coca leaf cultivation and cocaine production, which rose 53 percent from 1,738 tonnes (1,915 US tons) to 2,600 ...

Colombian authorities have released former Medellin Cartel boss Carlos Lehder after a judge ruled that a drug trafficking ...

A Colombian drug kingpin who went by kid-friendly names like "Shrek," "Happy," and "Teletubis" is facing life sentence after ...

state-issued IDs are worthless and cocaine production is not just tolerated, but encouraged. Welcome to Micay Canyon, a lush mountain-fringed valley in southwest Colombia where the self-styled ...

The global suspension of USAID funding is shuttering peace and anti-gang programs in Colombia's most impoverished places, endangering implementation of the country's 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC ...