Omar Ambuila's daughter posted photos of herself carrying designer handbags, taking luxury vacations to Paris and driving a ...

Colombia's record-high cocaine production is fueling instability, corruption, and violence, threatening the nation's economy ...

Colombian security forces have seized one of the largest cocaine seizures in the country’s history. Beach huts worth £40k in ...

Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a ...

The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their ...

The Catatumbo region, located near the border with Venezuela, has long been a hotspot for territorial disputes linked to Colombia’s lucrative cocaine trade. Tibu, the epicentre of this week’s violence ...

For years, rival armed groups have fought over control of ultra-lucrative coca plantations that dot the Colombia-Venezuela border region and which fuel the world’s cocaine habit. Officials spoke ...

A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled. According to court documents, Gonzalez-Ortiz led a drug trafficking organization in Colombia from 2016 to 2023 that smuggled cocaine on commercial ...

Alvin Lewis Jr., 54, was arrested on felony drug charges after allegedly selling crack cocaine to undercover cops while working as a rehab counselor. Dutchess County Drug Task Force A drug ...

Some 253,000 hectares in Colombia were planted with coca leaf in 2023, a UN report said, up from 230,000 in 2022. That saw cocaine production soar 53% to 2,644 metric tons, compared with 1,738 ...