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The Latin Times spoke to drug and security experts in Colombia to find out what lies behind the country's cocaine boom and ...
Rising tensions between the US and Colombia suggest Donald Trump’s administration is upping the pressure on the Andean nation ...
Police identified the suspect as Giuseppe Palermo, who was wanted under an Interpol red notice calling for his arrest in 196 countries.
Inside Colombia and U.S. efforts to stem cocaine production 03:51. Vice President Mike Pence told the president of Colombia last night that he is very concerned by the "dramatic increase" in ...
Cocaine trafficking from Colombia is at “record levels,” the State Department acknowledged this week in its report, warning that even bigger loads are probably on the way.
Colombia lawmakers seek to take control of cocaine market. It’s a long shot Colombian President Iván Duque, speaking at the U.N. in 2018, has his own plan for the cocaine trade: reinstating ...
Colombia is now producing more cocaine than ever before, just as a new chapter in the country’s criminal history begins and the government tries to implement a peace agreement with Marxist rebels. The ...
The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the ...
As cocaine advances along the trafficking chain, value is added. A kilo of cocaine that reaches the US border can be worth $12,000 to $15,000, and that same kilo, once it is broken up for retail ...
Farmer Miguel Mangos shows cocaine base paste at the end of the process to make it from coca leaves at a clandestine farm next to the Inírida River, in Colombia, on September 25, 2017.
In Colombia, farmers strip coca leaves by hand and mix them with gasoline and other chemicals to produce bricks of coca paste. Traffickers purchase the paste, which is then processed into cocaine ...