With increasing tensions and violence surrounding Colombia’s efforts to eradicate coca, one small village that resisted the plant for decades is struggling more than ever to defy the illicit economy.…
Colombian authorities are combating cocaine production in some of the most remote regions. Cauca is one of the long-neglected areas where the drug trade has fueled political conflict. In spite…
Colombia’s anti-riot police (ESMAD) on Sunday killed an indigenous journalist engaged in a protest over land ownership in the southwest of the country. Members of the Kokonuko peoples have been…
A woman from Cali has been dubbed Colombia’s “gold queen” after police accused her of exporting more than three metric tons of illegally mined gold to the United States. Mara…
Unknown assailants attacked a United Nations-led mission that sought to retrieve a weapons cache by demobilized FARC guerrillas in southwest Colombia on Sunday, according to the police. The attack, which…
Colombia’s Supreme Court nullified an 18-year sentence imposed on one of the country’s most renowned indigenous leaders for the retention and flogging a Colombian soldier who had illegally entered their…
Indigenous in a third of Colombia marched on Wednesday to demand the government honors a peace agreement with FARC guerrillas, end the ongoing assassination of leaders and ends land-grabbing. In…
A minor was shot dead, and one reporter and several policemen were injured in southwest Colombia on Tuesday after riot police opened fire at indigenous protesters and clashes erupted. The feared ESMAD anti-riot unit indiscriminately…
An indigenous tribe from southwest Colombia on Wednesday expelled the National Police from its territory, claiming cops were using the police station to sell drugs to local youth. The people from the indigenous reserve…