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With synthetic drugs like pink cocaine on the rise, Colombia should not mimic its fight against the drugs like marijuana or ...
Peace in Colombia relies on working with the very groups that control drug trafficking and profit from violence. Will it happen fast enough?
Colombia's anti-government guerrillas have grown stronger under President Gustavo Petro's three years in office.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that “cocaine is no worse than whiskey” as he suggested the global cocaine industry could be “easily dismantled” if the drug was legalized worldwide.
Colombian national Jaramillo Ramirez was sentenced to 150 months in prison for conspiring to import cocaine into the US.
However the departure of the FARC from the criminal scene has changed the drug trafficking landscape, just as the demobilization of the AUC in 2006 did. The new chapter in Colombia’s criminal history ...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says armed dissidents, drug trafficking cartels should be considered ‘terrorists’.
And Colombia remains the country with the most cocaine seized in the world, although the total amount of seizures dropped by 4.7 percent, from 434.7 tons in 2017 to 414.5 tons in 2018. Most likely, ...
According to Raw Story, Colombian President Gustavo Petro recently declared that cocaine was “no worse than whiskey” during an live broadcast of a government meeting. As shocking as that ...
Colombia hopes to destroy 200 square kilometers of coca crops by the end of the year and seize a record 834 tons of cocaine. "Drug trafficking is changing.
A car bomb and a separate attack on a police helicopter in Colombia killed at least 17 people Thursday, according to ...
The coca boom creates huge problems for Colombia’s conservative president, Iván Duque. Cocaine use is rising in rich countries once again. Donald Trump is desperate to reduce the supply.