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Authorities were unable to ascertain why the naked foreigner decided to climb the tree over a busy intersection.

“There’s an unfortunate trend in the region where laws are really good on paper, but they’re not fully put into practice,” said Julia Yansura of the FACT Coalition.

The business of smuggling migrants has exposed levels of corruption among Colombian officials in key institutions, including the navy and Migration Colombia.

Given that the Satanás gang has proven it can operate effectively from within Colombian prisons, locking up more members is unlikely to curtail the group’s activities.

The US Embassy reports that eight US Citizens were killed in Medellín the last 2 months of 2023 alone.

2024 will be the year when the cocaine supply chain catches up with record levels of coca cultivation.

Alias Orgón was charged for accessing several Colombian government websites and will serve 3 years and 5 months in prison.

President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace” policy had a difficult 2023. Not only did it fail to persuade the country’s most important armed groups to lay down their arms, but it also led to a reshaping of Colombia‘s criminal landscape.

Record cocaine production in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia has fueled violence between local and international criminal groups in Ecuador, where homicides increased by 94.7% from 2021 to 2022.

The 30 years since the kingpin’s death have shown that the business remains one of the world’s most dynamic criminal economies.