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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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

"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.

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...

"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.