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The US State Department has issued a statement following bilateral talks with a Colombian delegation headed by Colombian President Ivan Duque that recently visited Washington, D.C. During the first three years of Ivan Duque’s term, cocaine production has reached new...

The brothers were arrested in São Paulo on charges related to fraud in the contracts between the Transpetro subsidiary of Petrobras and the Efromovich brothers’ Estaleiro Ilha S.A. (EISA) shipyard in Brazil.

Minister Karen Abudinen has resigned to the metaphorical cemetery she promised during an April television interview. Though no one has accused her so far of criminal wrongdoing, questions remain as to how her office could fall victim to a quarter billion US dollar fraud without...

Joint actions were carried out by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism and the Group for the Protection of Tourism and National Heritage of the Metropolitan Police of Cúcuta, along with the Police for Children and Adolescents, the Environmental and Ecological Police,...

The crime occurred last April 20 in the village of El Porvenir de Caldono, in the Cauca department. According to the evidence obtained by a prosecutor from the Special Investigation Unit (UEI), the victim was murdered due to activities promoting the eradication of illicit crops...

The low labor productivity of the intellectual property sector is characteristic of the Colombian economy where most employment occurs lower on the value chain, with reduced technological endowments and with high doses of temporary employment and informality.

Colombia's "Comité Nacional de Paro," a coalition of labor unions and syndicalist groups has called for national strikes in Colombia for the 2nd time this year, after the government released a revised fiscal package.

Colombia’s attorney general indicated that Elhassen is wanted for belonging to a transnational drug trafficking network active in Europe, Asia & South America.

Yesterday, Colombia’s attorney general and national police have announced that it is formally seeking Marquez, whose birth name is Ivan Luciano Marquez Marin Arango, on charges of aggravated homicide, forced disappearance, illegal recruitment of people, and homicide of protected...

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...