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 ...

Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo ...

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

As the WHO reviews coca leaves' international scheduling status, momentum is growing to address this injustice to Indigenous Andean peoples.

That treatment ended without putting her cancer into complete remission, she said, as did a second round of treatment with a different drug. Fields is now on a drug approved by the Food and Drug ...

Colombian migrants deported from the United ... “There were women whose kids had to see their moms shackled like they were drug traffickers.” Some of the migrants told journalists they had ...

Colombia's cocaine production reached a record high in 2023, despite government efforts to combat the illicit industry. The booming cocaine trade is driving insecurity, corruption, and violence ...

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 ...

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 ...