Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying farmers while they switch to legal crops ...

The initiative aims to eradicate 25,000 hectares of coca bushes within 140 days while maintaining military operations against rebel groups in the northeast that profit from the drug trade. View on eur ...

The government announced to restart a crop restitution program in the northeast in of Colombia as part of a plan to attack the ... whose economy is dominated by the cultivation of coca and drug ...

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Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia asked the United ... The legalization of coca would give Colombian authorities more tools to promote the substitution of coca crops with, for example, cacao, ...

Colombia’s President said last week that the government would pay farmers in the Catatumbo region to replace coca plantations ...

Twenty-eight police officers and one soldier held hostage in southwest Colombia were released Saturday, according to an AFP ...

The region has approximately 55,000 hectares of coca crops and is one of Colombia's main producers of cocaine. Petro said farmers in Catatumbo will eradicate their coca plantings voluntarily and ...