Colombian President Gustavo Petro said there shouldn't be a global ban on cocaine. He argues cocaine should be legalized to stop trafficking.

Breaking down the current global power order, former Colombian Ambassador Pinzón discussed the impact of organized crime with ...

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 ...

After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a ...

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.

Cocaine ‘is no worse than whiskey’ – these are the words of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. He said during a live broadcast of a government meeting that the drug is only illegal because it comes ...

The militias have grown as the amount of coca leaf and cocaine produced ... U.S. and Colombian military officials say. Guerrillas patrolling fields of coca crops last year in Micay Canyon, a ...

Some regions of the world are dominated by violence, yet elsewhere people lead relatively peaceful lives. The political scientist Enzo Nussio is researching why this is the case and looking for ...

For decades, Buenaventura has been the crown jewel of drug trafficking along Colombia’s Pacific corridor. A detention center ...

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, ...

One Colombian soldier was killed and another injured Thursday in clashes with guerrilla dissidents in a coca-growing region ...