Drug-running guerrillas have repelled military efforts to retake a slice of southwest Colombia -- a virtual microstate where ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying ...

Colombia has urged the UN to remove cocaine's main ingredient from its list of harmful substances, after its president said the drug is 'no worse than whiskey.' The country is the world's biggest ...

FARC dissidents, Mexican cartels and local groups fueling escalating conflict in Micay Canyon - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Colombia President Gustavo Petro is calling on his country's Congress to legalize marijuana, saying its prohibition "only ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro unveiled a ... home to around 55,000 hectares of coca plantations, is one of Colombia’s principal cocaine-producing areas. Petro asserted that farmers in ...

March 3 (UPI) --Colombia President Gustavo Petro is calling on ... nations to legalize coca leaves "for purposes other than cocaine," following the recent arrest of Namoussir Mounir, a Belgian ...

The struggle to dominate the cocaine trade has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. However, Colombia’s progressive president Gustavo Petro now wants to go further and end the war on drugs ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced a ... violence and weaken rebel groups that profit from the cocaine trade. The region has approximately 55,000 hectares of coca ...