Colombia's cocaine production reached a record high in 2023, despite government efforts to combat the illicit industry. The booming cocaine trade is driving insecurity, corruption, and violence ...

But it left a vacuum increasingly filled by armed gangs that have shaken Colombia with a violent, cocaine-fueled conflict raging across several provinces of the country where the government has ...

Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated ...

chief negotiator for the Colombian government, as a part of the peace talks between both parties in Bogota, Colombia, Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File) ...

Drug traffickers, especially from Colombia, have been caught using submarines to transport cocaine into Mexico, and from there into the United States. In 2023, a "narco sub" with two dead bodies ...

IShowSpeed got a warm welcome by fans in Colombia, who doused him with a powdered substance that the streamer initially thought was cocaine. In footage from his arrival over the weekend ...

including Colombia's notorious Cali cartel. In December 2024, Russia announced it had arrested suspected members of the Cali cartel trying to smuggle 570 kilograms (1,250 pounds) of cocaine.

But they’re all ultimately in the deadly business of asserting control over the region’s fields of coca, the raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry. Over the past ...

But they’re all ultimately in the deadly business of asserting control over the region’s fields of coca, the raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry. Over the past week, ...