A Colombian customs worker admitted his role Tuesday in taking bribes and funneling more than $1 million in drug proceeds in a case that threatened to expose dirty dealings between U.S. Drug ...

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 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.

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 ...

The death toll from attacks by a rebel group in Colombia's Catatumbo region has risen to 60, the country's human rights office has said. Rival factions have been vying for control of the cocaine ...

More than 32,000 people have fled to towns in northeast Colombia as they attempt to escape a sharp rise in fighting between militant factions, according to the country’s ombudsman. Iris Marín ...

TAMPA, Fla. – The cocaine was hidden in boxes of fruit. It traveled in commercial planes from Colombia and into the United States after a stop in Central America. That is how federal agents ...

With almost 44,000 hectares of coca crops — much of it concentrated in the municipality of Tibú — the region is an important cocaine trafficking route into neighboring Venezuela, a long-time sanctuary ...

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) ...

As such, it deals with key concerns for both the United States and Colombia. Security assistance aimed at reducing drug production and trafficking is but a piece of a broader effort that seeks to ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government is reactivating arrest orders for the top leadership of the nation’s largest rebel group following attacks on civilians as part of a deadly turf ...