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 ...

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

Increasingly, the groups are smuggling coca paste — cheap, unrefined cocaine - to laboratories as far away as Italy and the ...

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,” ...

The Colombian navy on Wednesday announced its first seizure of an unmanned narco-submarine equipped with a Starlink antenna off its Caribbean coast. The vessel was not carrying drugs, but the ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Law enforcement raises warning over so-called pink cocaine 02:30. Russia said Friday it had arrested suspected members of a Colombian cartel trying to smuggle tens of millions of dollars worth of ...