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Displacement, assassinations and cocaine: Colombia’s endless war

Catatumbo, a lush, mountainous area bordering Venezuela, has been at war for decades. It’s a strategic corridor for cocaine trafficking, a route connecting coca fields in the Andean foothills to smuggling networks across the border.

Can Colombia's green businesses beat drugs and deforestation?

With ritual chants and plumes of smoke, an indigenous leader performed an ancient ceremony to bless the community-run fruit oil processing plant in Colombia's Amazon rainforest that locals hope will become a thriving - and sustainable - business.
CNN

Coca cultivation down in Colombia, up in Peru, Bolivia

Coca cultivation and cocaine production have decreased in Colombia but increased in Bolivia and Peru, the United Nations reported. Colombian cultivation was down 18 percent, and production decreased 28 percent in 2008,
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Soaring Cocaine Shipments Weigh On U.S.-Colombia Alliance

Record-breaking cocaine production in Colombia is causing significant tension with the United States, with former President Trump accusing President Petro of colluding with drug traffickers and threatening to end US aid. The surge in cocaine output is ...
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Amid row with Trump, Colombia’s Petro downplays rising coca yields

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, sanctioned by the United States for allegedly allowing drug cartels to flourish, acknowledged Tuesday that his country’s production of coca, the main ingredient in cocaine,
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Trump calls Colombia’s Petro an ‘illegal drug leader’ and announces an end to US aid to the country

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro, “does nothing to stop” drug production, President Donald Trump said Sunday, escalating the friction between Washington and one of its ...
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U.S. imposes sanctions on Colombia's president and family over drug trade allegations

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family and a member of his government over accusations of involvement in the global drug trade, sharply escalating tensions with the leftist leader ...
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Colombia to buy gold from small miners to curb illegal trade

Colombia’s government plans to start purchasing gold directly from small-scale producers in a bid to curb illegal activity and formalize an unregulated mining boom fueled by surging prices.

Colombia's President Duque confident in cutting deforestation in half

Colombian President Ivan Duque is confident his administration can cut the country's deforestation rate in half by the end of his four-year term, though it will be impossible to stop it completely, he told Reuters.
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