Colombia may be a small country in Latin America, but it's managed to achieve impressive economic recovery over the last ...

Colombia's coca crop went down slightly from 2017 to 2020, following a peace deal between the government and the country's biggest rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

LA HORMIGA, Colombia -- Three months of the most intensive U.S.-sponsored aerial spraying to date has devastated coca crops in this key cocaine-producing region of southwestern Colombia. The ...

Farmers that grow almost 34% of Colombia’s coca have agreed to take part in a government program to replace their illicit crops with a legal alternative, according to newspaper El Tiempo. The crop ...

Colombia’s toxic battle against crops that won’t go away June 14, 2021 More than 4 years ago Government soldiers stand guard as former FARC guerrillas and locals play billiards in Antioquia ...

Colombia is overhauling its anti-drug strategy, aiming to boost voluntary coca eradication to replace U.S.-backed aerial spraying of the crop.

U.S. cooperation has been instrumental in strengthening Colombia's security forces, law enforcement, and justice institutions ...

The Colombian government will launch its crop substitution plan this year in the two provinces which produce the largest amount of coca, the plant used to create cocaine. The crop substitution plan ...

The area occupied by coca crops in Colombia expanded to 245,000 hectares (605,408 acres) at the end of 2020, and cocaine production capacity rose to 1,010 metric tons a year, the U.S. Office of ...

With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia's government is trying a new approach to its narcotics problem: paying farmers to uproot crops of coca, the drug's main ingredient. Among the ...

Illicit Crops Threaten Birds In Colombia. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 15, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2002 / 07 / 020723075732.htm. Society For Conservation Biology.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Coca cultivation reached an all-time high in Colombia last year, the U.N. said, as the administration of President Gustavo Petro… ...