The fighting between the two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed that “cocaine is no worse than whisky” and suggested the drug trade could be dismantled if cocaine were legalized worldwide, CNN News reports. Despite decades ...

The booming cocaine trade is driving insecurity ... became a leading driver of Colombia’s civil war and prolonged the conflict. UNODC data shows the volume of land (Spanish) under coca ...

The death toll from attacks by a rebel group in Colombia's Catatumbo region has risen to 60, the country's human rights office has said. Rival factions have been vying for control of the cocaine trade ...

a long-time sanctuary for Colombian rebels. The region is home to several armed groups that vie for control over the lucrative drug trade and routes. Among them, the ELN’s Northeast War Front (Frente ...

Petro accused the ELN of committing "war crimes," and said on a social network, "That is why we are suspending dialogue with this group, because the ELN shows ... to the cocaine trade. Colombian ...

But polls also regularly show ... in the cocaine trade and engages in extortion, hostage-taking and trafficking in various goods. "They were trying to take control of the Colombian-Venezuelan ...

He says that Colombia has more interesting things to show than drug lords ... has actively been involved in efforts to reshape narratives around Escobar and the drug trade. Along with some other ...

CÚCUTA, Colombia — Colombia’s historic peace ... Petro’s peace negotiations and inability to control the cocaine trade. The relationship faced its biggest crisis in decades last month ...