Rising tensions between the U.S. and Colombia suggest Donald Trump's administration is upping the pressure on the Andean ...

It is the first reported discovery in South American waters of an unmanned semisubmersible vessel, Colombia's navy said.

Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo ...

A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has focused on targeting drug trafficking networks and a shift away from eradicating the coca leaf has helped feed the surge in cocaine production, according ...

Colombia plans to fly dozens of its “cocaine hippos” – the descendents of drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie – to new homes in India and Mexico in a bid to control their ...

Colombia's cocaine output increased to a record 1,738 tons last year, compared to just 972 tons in 2021. Meanwhile, the country's most prominent oil company saw first-half profits crash by over ...

Cocaine production in Colombia reached a record high in 2023 at 2,600 tons, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Cocaine related deaths jumped 37% in the last six years — with 27,529 ...

Colombia has once again produced cocaine at a record pace as President Gustavo Petro’s government changed the country’s strategy for fighting illegal drugs.. The area of land planted with coca ...

Colombia’s best-known drug trafficker, Pablo Escobar, may have been killed in 1993 but his influence continues to be felt in the country, sometimes in unexpected ways. Hippopotamuses brought to ...