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's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Colombia’s government and ... locals to abandon the cultivation of coca, which has sustained the local economy and the guerrillas for as long as the people can remember. To do this, the army set up a ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro unveiled a plan on Monday to cut down on coca cultivation in a northeastern region destabilised by rebel attacks, by compensating farmers as they transition to ...

The government announced to restart a crop restitution program in the northeast in of Colombia as part of a plan to attack the ... whose economy is dominated by the cultivation of coca and drug ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — One Colombian soldier was killed and another injured Thursday in clashes with guerrilla dissidents in a coca-growing region where their turf war with a rebel group has left ...

In Colombia, President Gustavo Petro has promised ... but the government failed to take control of coca fields and drug trafficking routes that were abandoned by the FARC. And now ELN rebels ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced a plan Monday to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying farmers while they switch to ...

The region, home to around 55,000 hectares of coca plantations, is one of Colombia’s principal cocaine-producing areas. Petro asserted that farmers in Catatumbo would voluntarily eradicate their coca ...