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US DFC CEO Adam Boehler and US National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien joined Colombian President Iván Duque to announce the launch of the US-Colombia Growth Initiative. Photo credit: DFC

US Development Finance Corporation Discusses Implementation Of US-Colombia Growth Initiative

Launched in August, the US-Colombia Growth Initiative is a bilateral framework to strengthen US-Colombia cooperation while leveraging the private sector and US Government tools and resources to create economic opportunity in rural Colombia.

Posted OnDecember 8, 2020

, ByLoren Moss

This familiar view of the Capitol’s East Front appeared in Die Gartenlaube, a popular German illustrated weekly newspaper. Published in Leipzig, the periodical was aimed at the middle classes and deemed a “friend of the family,” both for its instructive and entertaining content and generous use of images with text. The Capitol exterior was completed two years before this publication, during the Civil War, and its image appeared frequently in international periodicals. 1865, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

94 US Congress Members Call Out Colombia’s Duque Administration For Failures To Protect Human Rights Defenders & 2016 Peace Accord Implementation

Yesterday, almost 100 members of the US Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asking him to put additional pressure on Colombian President Ivan Duque to implement the 2016 Peace Accords signed by previous President Juan Manuel Santos, and also to reverse the...

Posted OnJuly 7, 2020

, ByLoren Moss

Farmhouse & Foreigners: 42 Busted At Barnyard Sex Party During Coronavirus Pandemic

Colombian prosecutors broke up a sex party at a farm outside of Villavicencio, Colombia where 21 men and 21 women were caught red-handed consuming hallucinogens and cocaine, practicing prostitution, and drinking adulterated liquor. 17 of the partygoers were Venezuelans, according...

Posted OnApril 18, 2020

, ByLoren Moss

Insight Crime: Colombia’s Rainforests, Natural Areas Suffer As Park Rangers Threatened By Ex-FARC Mafia

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.

Posted OnMarch 29, 2020

, ByInsight Crime

Convicted narco trafficker & fugitive Daron Odell Jones. Photo Courtesy Fiscalia General de la Nación

Colombia Captures American Narco-Fugitive Attempting To Travel From México To UK

Colombia’s CTI (analogous to the US FBI) Captured fugitive American narco-trafficker Daron Odell Jones during a layover at the El Dorado Airport in Bogotá as he attempted to travel from Mexico to the UK on a fake British passport.

Posted OnMarch 19, 2020

, ByLoren Moss

“You’re Going To Have To Spray:” Trump Tells Duque To Resume Glyphosate Fumigation

Trump in direct terms told Duque that Colombia will have to resume aerial fumigation of illegal coca crops with glyphosate.

Posted OnMarch 4, 2020

, ByLoren Moss

“Now It’s Worse Than Before” Interview With A Soldier On The Front Lines Of Colombia’s Armed Strike (Combat Footage)

"Now its worse than before." Finance Colombia was able to communicate briefly with a career soldier on the front lines in the troubled region of Tumaco to understand the situation from the point of view of the soldier on the ground.

Posted OnFebruary 17, 2020

, ByLoren Moss

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US Trial Sheds Little Light On Colombia’s Shady Emerald Mining Industry

The US court case of Horacio Triana, known as Colombia’s “emerald czar,” will focus on drug trafficking charges and is unlikely to shine a light on a complex web of links between the country’s emerald industry and a range of criminal interests. In November, Triana pled guilty...

Posted OnDecember 11, 2019

, ByLoren Moss

Ricardo Lagos Chile (Photo credit: Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle)

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Ex-Chilean President Ricardo Lagos on Regulation: “It Is Possible to Take a Different Approach to Drugs”

"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."

Posted OnDecember 11, 2018

, ByInsight Crime