Some historians in Colombia attribute 10,000 killings to cartel leader Pablo Escobar. Ochoa was one of the cartel's key operators at the time and lived for several years in Miami where he ran a ...

Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” ...

Medellín’s thriving music scene is more than just reggaetón. It’s a movement reshaping tourism, culture, and community in ...

A TOP ex-cop has sounded the alarm on Ireland’s most dangerous crime gangs — revealing only international firepower can ...

The cartel rose to prominence in the late 1980s and operated until 1995, running production out of Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. It was controlled by Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Miguel Rodríguez ...

Medellin, Colombia’s second-largest city, was home to an internationally feared drug cartel and gained notoriety for its high murder rates. But by 2023, the homicide rate in Medellin had ...

A proposed law in Colombia's Congress seeks to ban the sale of merchandise that celebrates former drug lord Pablo Escobar, whose cocaine cartel has been linked to thousands of murders. One day in ...

According to journalist Ioan Grillo, the Medellín cartel smuggled most of its cocaine straight over the Florida coast. "It was a nine-hundred-mile run from the north coast of Colombia and was ...

(Colombian presidential press office via AP) BROOKLYN (CN) — Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, the ex-kingpin who led some 6,000 cartel members in a Colombia-based drug operation, was sentenced to 45 years ...

Robert Mazur is a former government agent who investigated drug-money laundering for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service intelligence division, and the Customs ...