The drug lord Pablo Escobar built a private zoo filled with hippos, but things took a dangerous turn when he was shot dead. Read more about it here.

Days after the death of a top Gulf Clan commander, the military said it had killed eight more of the cartel's members and ...

A Colombian drug kingpin who went by kid-friendly names like "Shrek," "Happy," and "Teletubis" is facing life sentence after ...

Colombia said it’s acting “decisively” against transnational organized crime after a senior US official described the country ...

Plans to send Geovanny Andrés Rojas, known as "Araña," to the U.S., reignited a debate about extradition as it could also ...

Colombia's defense ministry says a rebel group called the Commoners of the South has begun handing its weapons over to the ...

Back in the day, drug lord Pablo Escobar built up his feared cocaine empire in Medellín. At the same time, a war was raging ...

The surrender of weapons paves the way for the eventual reintegration of some 300 Comuneros del Sur rebels into civilian life ...

The arrests of seven mayors in Venezuela show how President Maduro has weaponized the supposed fight against crime for his ...

The South Florida man whose wife was killed last year after a brazen carjacking that was caught on camera near Winter Springs ...

Ecuadorans go to the polls on Sunday under the shadow of surging drug violence and a troubling explosion in the number of ...