Colombian students take more drugs than regional peers
Colombian students are more likely to have smoked marijuana, taken synthetic drugs, used cocaine or drunk alcohol than students in Bolivia, Ecuador or Peru, reports El Tiempo. Around 27% of…
Colombian students are more likely to have smoked marijuana, taken synthetic drugs, used cocaine or drunk alcohol than students in Bolivia, Ecuador or Peru, reports El Tiempo. Around 27% of…
Almost 2,000 demobilized paramilitaries have requested increased security measures from the Colombian government following assassination attempts and threats against them, reports El Tiempo. Authorities report that many of the threats…
Colombian police seized $815,000 and arrested four people on suspicion of laundering drug trafficking money in the Caribbean port of Santa Marta. The detainees, believed to be members of an…
Colombian officials took participants in the FBI’s annual Police Summit for Latin America and the Caribbean on a tour of eradicated coca fields and a simulated cocaine lab in the…
Colombian police chief General Oscar Naranjo said Friday that success in preventing the export of narcotics has caused producers to focus on the domestic market, arguing that Colombia “has completed…
A Colombian police force colonel doubled the amount placed on his head by a wanted narco-paramilitary, in reward for information leading to the capture of the criminal. Colonel Angelo Franco Sanabria…
Colombian police have discovered that a drug trafficker wanted by the U.S.’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is already incarcerated in a prison in Colombia’s southern Valle del Cauca department. U.S.…
Colombia’s National Commerce Federation (Fenalco) expressed concern Tuesday that 70 of the 258 companies added during 2010 to the U.S. “Clinton’s list” of drug traffickers and money launderers are Colombian. Fenalco…
Colombian and U.S. authorities are working together to have narco-kingpin Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, alias “Valenciano” included in a list of the world’s ten most-wanted drug traffickers. “Including Valenciano in the…