A drug trafficker was sentenced to 24 years in prison Tuesday along with two others for a conspiracy to bring in more than a ...

Cocaine production in South America is surging, and much of that is being found and seized at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” ...

Colombia has urged the UN to remove cocaine's main ingredient from its list of harmful substances, after its president said the drug is 'no worse than whiskey.' The country is the world's biggest ...

The ELN's territory is an important source of coca and a gateway to the Caribbean coast -- where Colombian cocaine begins its journey to the rest of the world. The government has alleged that the ...

The thousands-strong guerrilla group, better known by its Spanish initials ELN, has waged a 60-year leftwing insurgency against the Colombian state, seizing swathes of territory and becoming a major ...

The struggle to dominate the cocaine trade has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. However, Colombia’s progressive president Gustavo Petro now wants to go further and end the war on drugs ...

The region has approximately 55,000 hectares of coca crops and is one of Colombia’s main producers of cocaine. Petro said farmers in Catatumbo will eradicate their coca plantings voluntarily and ...