One potent tributary in the surging cocaine pipeline begins in the mountains of Cauca province, where nearly every plot of ...

When Colombia signed a landmark peace agreement with rebels in 2016, it was celebrated internationally for ending a war that ...

MICAY CANYON, Colombia—One potent tributary in the surging cocaine pipeline begins in the mountains of Cauca province, where nearly every plot of arable land sprouts coca leaves. On Cesar Rosero ...

The Trump administration cut off aid to Colombia that has been vital to keeping the promises of a peace deal with a major ...

Where 25 pounds of dried coca leaves once yielded 18 grams of alkaloid, they now yield 25 grams. UN and US officials estimate that Colombia produced a staggering 3,000 tons of cocaine last year ...

Between 2021 and 2024, the number of reported recruits rose roughly 1,000 percent, from 36 children to more than 450. This ...

The area of Colombia under cultivation with coca bushes, whose leaves are used to make cocaine, also mushroomed to 253,000 hectares — almost the size of Luxembourg.

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...

"You leave one person ... has long cultivated coca, the plant used to produce cocaine, and illegally mined gold — a process ...