Colombian President Gustavo Petro has repeatedly claimed Mexican cartels are behind violence in the country's conflict zone, ...

Vienna (AFP) – Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of ...

But since president Gustavo Petro took office as the country's first ... insisted Monday that the coca leaf, cocaine's main ingredient, 'is itself not harmful to health'. Removing it from a ...

No one enters or leaves without the guerrillas' say-so, state-issued IDs are worthless and cocaine production is not just tolerated ... In October, Colombian President Gustavo Petro launched Operation ...

Colombian guerrillas took 29 soldiers and police hostage during a gun battle in a key cocaine-growing region, the government said Friday, a fresh blow to the country's fragile peace process.

The global suspension of USAID funding is shuttering peace and anti-gang programs in Colombia's most impoverished places, endangering implementation of the country's 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC ...

Kristi Noem will visit El Salvador’s mega-prison this Wednesday, which houses the more than 200 Venezuelans who were deported ...

President Gustavo Petro has vowed to reimpose state control ... were prompted by a turf war over territory and lucrative cocaine trafficking routes into Venezuela. The ELN's territory is an ...