Drug-running guerrillas have repelled military efforts to retake a slice of southwest Colombia -- a virtual microstate where ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...

BOGOTA ,Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s newly appointed defense minister said Tuesday that he will focus on taking back territory ...

Vienna (AFP) – Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of ...

In a rare interview, carried out at a secret mountain location near the Venezuelan border, two senior guerrilla commanders ...

President Gustavo Petro has vowed to reimpose state control ... were prompted by a turf war over territory and lucrative cocaine trafficking routes into Venezuela. The ELN's territory is an ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro (4-R) and Colombian Defense Minister ... Luis ACOSTA / AFP As a result, the amount of land used for cocaine production has increased by 420 percent since 2012 ...

Credit: AP/Fernando Vergara The attacks prompted President Gustavo Petro to cancel peace talks ... and starve ELN fighters in the area of cocaine funding. Sánchez is the first retired member ...

This would allow police authorities to focus on combating the illegal production of cocaine and the exports of this illicit drug to the global consumption market. According to the Foreign Ministry, ...