Colombia sets 2017 coca eradication target at 50k hectares
Colombia’s government and demobilizing FARC guerrillas plan to eradicate some 50,000 hectares of coca in the South American country this year. The target is half of what was promised by…
Colombia’s government and demobilizing FARC guerrillas plan to eradicate some 50,000 hectares of coca in the South American country this year. The target is half of what was promised by…
Colombia’s government aims to get rid of 100,000 hectares of coca in 2017 as the country prepares to implement its post-war counter-narcotics strategy. The ambitious goal, announced by defense minister Luis Carlos Villegas…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos dismissed the possibility of returning to aerial fumigation to combat the skyrocketing production of coca crops in the country. The possibility was raised by Prosecutor…
Unable to curb a boom in cocaine production by manually eradicating coca, Colombia’s Prosecutor General asked counter-narcotics authorities to return to the highly controversial aerial spraying of coca fields. The proposal…
Coca growers in the south of Colombia have been on strike for almost a month, claiming the government is eradicating crops without providing substitute crops as promised. The protests have been…
Only months after medical marijuana was legalized, the Colombia senator that successfully sought the legalization is now seeking to do the same with coca, the main ingredient for cocaine. Senator Juan…
A massive air based operation has destroyed more than 100 cocaine laboratories in central Colombia allegedly belonging to the FARC’s dissident 1st Front, authorities said Tuesday. The operation led by the Air Force…
The potential cocaine production in Colombia shot up a staggering 46% between 2014 and 2015, meaning the country now has the resources to produce 646 metric tons (712 US tons)…
Colombia’s government and the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Sunday kicked off a pilot project that seeks to curb the cultivation of coca by offering farmers alternative crops.…