Jaime Cruz hadn’t heard from Colombia’s extortion gangs for more than a decade until the palm-oil farmer checked his phone one day in September 2023 and got a terrible shock.

A fugitive known as Colombia's “Contraband King” corrupted agents in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with expensive ...

Colombia’s government has applied to join a China-based development bank, another sign of Latin America’s drift away from the U.S. as the Trump administration’s ...

Colombia's progressive drug policy reforms include the prioritisation of harm reduction, but campaigners fear advances are at risk. Jacqui Thornton reports.

A man whom San Diego federal prosecutors say supplied large quantities of cocaine to some of Mexico’s most powerful drug ...

A man federal prosecutors said supplied cocaine to powerful Mexican drug cartels pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to ...

Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets ...

Richard Pitt grew up in Thermopolis and lived a life straight out of 1980s drug-running movies like “Scarface.” Decades later ...

Ecuador's president declared three days of national mourning starting Saturday over the deaths of 11 soldiers who the army ...

From the column: "The (nation's) entire (cut-flower) industry is now up in the air with new tariffs proposed." ...