Colombia’s security forces have had at least twenty-one major clashes with coca farmers in the past year amid claims the government is breaking agreements made with farmers through a new…
One farmer was killed and another two injured in clashes between coca growers and soldiers over the forced eradication of the plant in the southwest of Colombia. The deadly clash…
Resistance to Colombia’s efforts to forcibly eradicate coca is causing uprisings across the country and moving into new levels of militancy, as shown by civilians’ detention of 11 policemen in the southwest…
Colombia’s Minister for Defense on Tuesday confirmed that coca production in the South American country continues to rise despite ongoing government efforts to curb it. Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas…
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.
Almost 200 Colombians have died in the process of manually eradicating coca plants, a strategy the Colombian government adopted after banning the aerial spraying of glyphosate.
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 Colombian government’s coca eradication initiative was highlighted by the United Nations as a reason for historic lows in the country’s cocaine production, according to latest figures released in the…
At least 1,500 coca plants were manually uprooted and destroyed by members of the army and national police in Western Colombia, Colombia’s media reported on Tuesday.