Colombia’s Health minister, Alejandro Gaviria, has asked for the banning of aerial fumigation after the World Health Organization (WHO) classified glyphosate, the chemical used, as likely carcinogenic.
The new labeling of the world’s most-popular weed killer as a likely cause of cancer is raising more questions for an aerial spraying program in Colombia that is the cornerstone…
While coca cultivation in Colombia stagnated, the production of the plant used to produce cocaine dropped to such an extent in Peru that the country is close to losing #1 status,…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday announced a “pilot” program for illicit crop substitution in the southern state of Putumayo, claiming there will be “no more need” for fumigation with…
Colombia has made considerable advancements over the past two year in illicit crops substitution program to eradicate coca, said the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNOCD) .
A military campaign in northeastern Colombia led to the closure of nine hidden factories used for the production of cocaine paste which government troops claim were run by ELN and…
Colombia may have violated its agreement with Ecuador to forgo aerial fumigation near its border, according to a report by the Ecuadorean Interagency Committee Against Fumigation, or CIF.
Colombia’s decades-long fight against illicit drugs is to be solved with a two-year voluntary program of crop substitution, according to a preliminary agreement between the government and the FARC released on Wednesday.…
A bi-national committee has concluded that Colombia can fumigate coca crops closer to Ecuador’s border, Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported on Friday.