Cocaine ‘is no worse than whiskey’ – these are the words of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. He said during a live ...

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian ...

A fierce outbreak of fighting in northern Colombia between rival guerilla factions in a drug turf war, has displaced tens of thousands of people.

But it left a vacuum increasingly filled by armed gangs that have shaken Colombia with a violent, cocaine-fueled conflict raging across several provinces of the country where the government has ...

But they’re all ultimately in the deadly business of asserting control over the region’s fields of coca, the raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry.

The militias have grown as the amount of coca leaf and cocaine produced ... U.S. and Colombian military officials say. Guerrillas patrolling fields of coca crops last year in Micay Canyon, a ...

(Bloomberg) -- Tens of thousands of refugees are fleeing one of Colombia’s biggest cocaine-producing regions ... SA is currently operating its fields in the region with a minimum level of ...

But they’re all ultimately in the deadly business of asserting control over the region’s fields of coca, the raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry. Over the past week, ...