A fierce outbreak of fighting in northern Colombia between rival guerilla factions in a drug turf war, has displaced tens of thousands of people.

But they’re all ultimately in the deadly business of asserting control over the region’s fields of coca, the raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry.

After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a ...

As the WHO reviews coca leaves' international scheduling status, momentum is growing to address this injustice to Indigenous Andean peoples.

Clashes between armed groups in Colombia have led to some of the worst ... Catatumbo is home to vast fields of coca, the plant that is a base product in cocaine. Two groups control the territory ...

Colombia’s president has issued a decree giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela that has been wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among ...

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 (AP) — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela wracked in recent days by a deadly ...