A drug informant who helped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration build some of its biggest cases has been arrested and ...

Will the WHO confront its colonial legacy and right a historic wrong? The critical review of the coca leaf could transform ...

Mexican media reported that cartels had launched a coordinated effort to recruit former and active Colombian soldiers for ...

In 2013, pilots Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos were arrested in the Dominican Republic after authorities found 26 suitcases ...

Asif Hafeez, once a shadowy figure in international drug trafficking circles, has been unmasked as the mastermind behind one of the world’s most expansive heroin networks. Dubbed as the "Sultan" for ...

The lure of even a few specks of gold compels Elizabeth Mosquera awake before dawn to slog to a muddy pit, where she wades ...

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 ...

Colombia, the global nexus of the cocaine industry ... “You go to coca fields,” he added, “and it’s like standing in a cornfield in Iowa — you can’t see the end.” ...

FILE - Police patrol a coca field as hired farmers uproot coca shrubs as part of a manual eradication campaign of illegal crops in San Miguel on ... profiting from the cocaine trade.