Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with his US counterpart Donald Trump later this month amid increased American pressure on the South American country for a rapid solution to…
Colombia has eradicated almost 40,000 hectares of coca crops since a peace deal with the now-demobilized Marxist FARC guerrilla group came into effect, the country’s vice-president said Monday. According to…
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed part of report detailing that coca cultivation in Colombia has risen to 146,000 hectares in 2016 from 96,000 hectares in 2015.…
The first five months of the coca substitution program launched as part of Colombia’s peace process with the FARC guerrilla group has seen over 75,000 families agree to eradicate more…
A UN official has been released by dissidents FARC rebels more than two months after being kidnapped in southern Colombia. Harley Lopez, an official for the UN Office on Drugs…
Colombia’s government dismissed US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s claim that “it is necessary to resume fumigation” of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, reported newspaper El Tiempo. According to…
Colombia has eradicated the first of many coca plants the government vowed to replace by legal crops. Drug trafficking groups have already begun to violently frustrate this. President Juan Manuel…
Farmers that grow almost 34% of Colombia’s coca have agreed to take part in a government program to replace their illicit crops with a legal alternative, according to newspaper El Tiempo. The…
The United Nations on Tuesday told Colombia that crop substitution and rural development, not the forced eradication of coca plants, is the most effective way to curb drug trafficking. Forced eradication efforts have…