The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed that “cocaine is no worse than whisky” and suggested the drug trade could be dismantled if cocaine were legalized worldwide, CNN News reports. Despite decades ...

A recent U.S. sanctions notice has put the spotlight on an alleged narcotics ring from the small Baltic country, which ...

Petro made little mention during the cabinet meeting of the crisis in Colombia’s north-eastern Catatumbo region, where rebel groups involved in the drug trade ... as a way to show Petro as ...

A leaked memo from the Colombian prosecutor’s office reveals an international police operation targeting a drug trafficking ...

The booming cocaine trade is driving insecurity ... became a leading driver of Colombia’s civil war and prolonged the conflict. UNODC data shows the volume of land (Spanish) under coca ...

A recent United States sanctions notice has put the spotlight on an alleged drug ring from Lithuania, purportedly headed by a ...

MEXICO CITY—President Trump wants to deploy a blunt new tool to fight Mexican cartels that flood the U.S. with drugs, by ...

For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.