Police attacked in north Colombia Christmas day assault
Two policeman and one civilian were wounded Sunday by a group of unknown gunmen in the northern Colombian town of Amalfi, Antioquia. The mayor of Amalfi, Miguel Angel Arbelaez, announced…
Two policeman and one civilian were wounded Sunday by a group of unknown gunmen in the northern Colombian town of Amalfi, Antioquia. The mayor of Amalfi, Miguel Angel Arbelaez, announced…
The Colombian Army captured 12 suspected FARC guerrillas during a raid on a drug lab in the northwest department of Cordoba, Wednesday. According to the official report, members from the…
The Colombian Army destroyed seven cocaine processing labs Saturday in a sweep of several municipalities across the country. Colombian soldiers operating in the southern department of Putumayo seized three coca…
Anti-narcotics police from Colombia and Peru will synchronize manual eradication of illicit crops, such as coca, in border zones between the neighboring countries in December. General Luis Perez Alvaran, the anti-narcotics…
The number of hectares of Colombian land used for coca cultivation has dropped by 62% from 402 acres in 2000 to 153 acres in 2010 according to preliminary figures from…
The United States reported that potential cocaine production from 2009 to 2010 increased, while over the past ten years potential cocaine production has decreased by 57%. According to the report…
Aerial crop fumigations by the Colombian government may have caused irreversible genetic damage to 10% of Ecuadorean citizens living on the country’s northeastern border, revealed a study conducted by the…
Colombia’s defense minister and interior and justice minister say they will ask the G8 for more military intelligence cooperation to stop the rise of narco-trafficking groups. Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera…
After a week of negotiations, 2,000 people displaced from Bajo Cauca to Taraza in the Antioquia department reach an agreement with the local government to return home. The exodus began…