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The designation largely cuts Petro & Benedetti off from the international financial system, especially once Petro's presidency ends next year.

Decent Colombians have, since the day I have arrived, railed against the narco-culture especially in Medellin. They are sick to the back teeth of watching obvious mafia boys & girls rubbing their faces in the mud, as they cruise around in their $100,000 cars, purchased with...

The US may offer limited aid in Colombia’s drug war, but local soldiers, civilians, and rights workers face daily violence from armed gangs.

The decertification puts half a billion dollars of US security aid to Colombia at risk. Mafia & insurgent groups have flourished during the government of Gustavo Petro.

Minister of the Interior Armando Benedetti and former Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva put personal drug abuse in the government on the media agenda

The wild claim came during the appointment ceremony of new National Police head, Brigadier General Carlos Fernando Triana.

Gustavo Petro: "Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey."

Petro's cabinet meeting on TV sparks chaos, exposing divisions ahead of the 2026 elections.

Aldana-Gil managed cocaine smuggling logistics from Cali, bribing airport staff and altering manifests to load drugs onto planes.

Previously, FARC dominated the coca market in areas they controlled. Since the group disarmed, other criminal groups have failed to establish the same level of control.