Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” ...

Drug-running guerrillas have repelled military efforts to retake a slice of southwest Colombia -- a virtual microstate where ...

At least five soldiers were killed Tuesday (Wednesday, Manila time) in a bomb attack by dissident FARC guerrillas in a key ...

BOGOTA ,Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s newly appointed defense minister said Tuesday that he will focus on taking back territory ...

Twenty-eight police officers and one soldier held hostage in southwest Colombia were released Saturday, with fresh tensions ...

Authorities blamed a FARC dissident group for the mass abduction, which occurred in the Cauca region of southwest Colombia, an epicenter of world coca production. Officials said guerillas and ...

“Peace in Colombia depends on the voluntary decision of farmers who grow coca to eradicate their crops,” Petro stated during the meeting. In January, over 36,000 individuals were displaced ...

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 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 ...