A farmers’ representative who was leading local efforts to voluntarily eradicate coca in southwest Colombia was brutally murdered together with his two sons on Saturday, according to the coca growers…
Colombia’s counter-narcotics policy is on the brink of failure after more than 28 community leaders and almost 200 farmers were assassinated, according to the coca growers federation. According to COCCAM, the…
Portugal on Monday is contributing €200,000 ($230,000) for Colombia’s efforts to curb drug trafficking through the substitution of coca crops, President Juan Manuel Santos announced. The announcement was made by…
Colombia’s 100,000 coca farming families are under constant threat from drug trafficking groups trying to violently counter the substitution of the plant that is the base ingredient of cocaine. Authorities…
Colombian officials and coca growers reached an agreement on Wednesday to temporarily halt the forced eradication of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, in the northeast of the country. The…
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…
The first five months of the coca substitution program launched as part of Colombia’s peace process with the FARC guerrilla group has seen over 75,000 families agree to eradicate more…
Colombia’s government dismissed US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s claim that “it is necessary to resume fumigation” of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, reported newspaper El Tiempo. According to…
Colombia has eradicated the first of many coca plants the government vowed to replace by legal crops. Drug trafficking groups have already begun to violently frustrate this. President Juan Manuel…