Colombia's cocaine output increased to a record 1,738 tons last year, compared to just 972 tons in 2021. Meanwhile, the country's most prominent oil company saw first-half profits crash by over ...

A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

In a shocking development, Colombia’s cocaine production, for the 10th year straight, soared to a new record high. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that the year’s annual ...

In a few cases, the Colombian groups have maintained direct routes to foreign markets. Most of Colombia’s current drug trafficking organizations were formed a decade ago by mid-level commanders of ...

Colombia's national potential cocaine output and the amount of cocaine produced per hectare are growing, thanks to highly-productive coca strains, even as crop area shrinks. (% change) Net coca ...

Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has focused on targeting drug trafficking networks and a shift away from eradicating the coca leaf has helped feed the surge in cocaine production, according ...

The militias have grown as the amount of coca leaf and cocaine produced in Colombia have reached historic highs. The country ...

Colombia suspended the forced eradication of coca, the raw material for making cocaine, after the nation’s new leftist president said the war on drugs had failed. Rather than take action against ...

Rising tensions between the US and Colombia suggest Donald Trump’s administration is upping the pressure on the Andean nation ...

The largest Colombian "narco sub" ever recorded — some 100 feet long and 10 feet wide — has been intercepted and decommissioned in the Pacific, with 3 tons of cocaine found on board, the ...

In Colombia, government policies, including a move away from eradicating coca plants, and technological advances in cultivation, have allowed coca production to expand despite decades of ...