Positioned near coca farms and Pacific smuggling corridors, Cali has become a violent microcosm of a global drug boom.

United Nations data on coca cultivation in Colombia in 2024, showed drug crop plantations expanded while concentrating in ...

Abelardo de la Espriella promises more prisons and a crackdown after cocaine production and the ranks of armed groups expanded across the country.

MIAMI—Colombian officials are working to eliminate the nation’s illicit cocaine trade and replace it with chocolate. “We say to the world, ‘Please buy cocoa, not coca,’” Defense Minister Pedro Arnulfo ...

In May, Colombians will choose a successor to President Gustavo Petro, the first leftist leader in the country’s modern history. The results of that election will cement — or erase — Petro’s legacy at ...

More than any other U.S. president in decades, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued military interventions in Latin America. On Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás ...

Two decades after it started spraying coca fields with herbicide, Colombia is torn between continuing to wage a US-sponsored war on drugs from the sky and mounting fears of health risks. Launched in ...

This is far from the first time Petro has expressed these views before the international body. True to form, the president spoke during the opening session in Vienna, offering a fresh and unorthodox ...