Colombia calls on UN to radically reform international drug policy
Colombia’s President will call for a complete overhaul of international drug policy including decriminalization at a United Nations Assembly on Drugs in New York on Wednesday.
Colombia’s President will call for a complete overhaul of international drug policy including decriminalization at a United Nations Assembly on Drugs in New York on Wednesday.
Colombia is the world’s #1 producer of cocaine, according to both the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United States’ Department of State. While nobody exactly…
Colombia will deploy an extra 5,000 men in a pilot campaign to eradicate coca, the crop used to produce cocaine, while kick-starting crop substition programs that seek to curb an explosive growth…
Colombia’s government have renewed concerns over a notable increase in the production of coca and marijuana in the South American country.
The War on Drugs, kicked off by late US President Richard Nixon has proven to be “a failed and counterproductive strategy,” said the London School of Economics Monday ahead of a…
Coca farmers in the southwest of Colombia clashed with members of the national army and eradicators of illicit crops on Thursday, leaving at least five civilians injured and one dead.
A massive cocaine laboratory able to produce seven tons of cocaine a week was discovered and destroyed in the southwest of Colombia, the military said.
Colombia is seeking a less toxic herbicide to restart aerial fumigations of coca crops, the director of the national police said, after the Andean country halted spraying with the chemical…
The United States Congress is debating a bill that seeks to target all chains in the global drug trade and could lead to Colombian coca farmers being charged in the US.