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

A lab technician takes Pinzon’s paper square of LSD and douses a small sample with a reactant. It turns a dark copper color, a sign the drug is not what it appears to be. “There’s no presence of LSD,” ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has suspended the extradition of a rebel leader to the United States, arguing that he needs to stay in Colombia to contribute to peace talks.

In fact, Mexico’s current drug cartels arose only because of the cocaine trade’s transnational nature. As any Netflix-watcher will tell you, Colombian Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel became ...

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 drug trafficker was sentenced to 24 years in prison Tuesday along with two others for a conspiracy to bring more than a ton of cocaine into the United States from Colombia, federal officials said.

U.S. cooperation has been instrumental in strengthening Colombia's security forces, law enforcement, and justice institutions ...

Four men from Colombia have been sentenced for a drug money laundering scheme with more than $1 million involved. Gilberto Lopez-Giraldo, Raul Lopez-Giraldo, Guillermo Escobar, and Alexander Duque ...

A remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper flies near the Syracuse Hancock International Airport on Dec. 16, 2015, and is similar to those the CIA is using to spy on Mexican drug cartels and fentanyl labs.

Cartels are offshoring more cocaine production outside of Colombia and exporting lower-grade drugs that are easier to conceal in products such as paints and plastics.

More Colombian drug defendants were extradited to the Eastern District of Texas in 2018 than anywhere else in the U.S., ... A clandestine cocaine lab in Colombia. (Justice Department) ...

For just one kilogram of cocaine, worth $2,000 or so in Colombia, drug traffickers could earn $25,000 by smuggling it to the United States but at least $31,500 if it reached Europe, according to U ...