Colombia’s government is reactivating arrest orders for the top leadership of the nation’s largest rebel group ...
The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their ...
The New York Times, the so-called US “newspaper of record,” carried an opinion piece by one of its columnists promoting ...
Telmo Mineiro, a fisherman from São Miguel, takes a heavy drag on his cigarette and points to where he found a brick of uncut cocaine on the shore. “We were hunting for sea urchins,” he says, “we saw ...
When police boarded Quinci’s boat, they found him hunched over a foldout table, sipping a coffee in a tracksuit In fact, he was a smuggler ferrying uncut cocaine from Venezuela to Spain on ...
Drug trafficking stands to indirectly benefit from increased US pressure. As a crucial transit point for Colombian cocaine, Venezuela may experience heightened trafficking activities as groups seek to ...
Both the ELN and FARC-EMC have long fought for control over this drug-rich area, but recent violence marks a significant ...
Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a ...
That’s enough to produce more than 2,600 tons of cocaine, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Venezuelan Relations On Wednesday, Venezuela sent Russian-made military jets to ...
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro made a further outreach to Venezuela on Saturday, voicing hope the neighbors can work "together" to confront deadly guerrilla violence.
Some of the estimated 18,000 displaced people have fled into Venezuela. The armed groups are fighting over control of strategic drug routes that have been fueling a boom in cocaine production from ...