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The amount of powdered cocaine extracted from a single hectare of coca increased by more than one kilogram in just a year. Potential cocaine output jumped from 6.7 kilograms per hectare in 2019 to 7.9 kilograms in 2020, according to the UNODC report. Three factors are possibly...

The massacres in Southeast Antioquia appear related to a confrontation between gangs associated with the Urabeños, which is also known as the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC), and the Medellin-based Oficina de Envigado. Both are looking to control local drug markets.

While the homicide rate in Colombia fell again in 2020, the nation struggled to confront a number of other security threats. The 12,018 homicides recorded across the country last year marked a murder rate of 24.3 per 100,000 people, down just over six percent from the total...

The seizures of several illegal shipments of medicine in Colombia’s northern department of La Guajira has shown that one of the country’s least-discussed criminal economies could rapidly expand during the coronavirus pandemic. In March, two shipments were seized in the...

Colombia's Vice President Marta Lucía Ramirez vehemently denies a close relationship between her & her husband Álvaro Rincón with alleged drug trafficker and paramilitary Guillermo Acevedo, alias “Memo Fantasma." This article is from Insight Crime.

According to an Insight Crime report, continued threats by criminal groups have led park rangers in Colombia’s protected areas of the Amazon rainforest to abandon their posts, leaving these territories to fall under the control of gangs.

Colombian authorities dismantled a criminal organization in Arauca known as “Los Suizos” (translates to "The Swiss") that had smuggled about 100 tons of cheese across the border.

"There has been a lot of progress," said Lagos. "In Chile, the fact that [legalizing] the personal consumption of medicinal cannabis is being discussed is a sign of progress."

A lot has changed in the country’s underworld since the fall of one of the world’s most legendary criminals.

The absence of three leading figures may be a sign of the internal fracture within the FARC party that has grown since the arrest of Jesus Santrich.