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 ...