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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.

With the advance of crime groups, gold mining in Colombia will likely continue evolving into a purely criminal industry where illicit interests, environmental devastation, and inadequate government action converge.

Illegal mining is by far the most widespread and insidious environmental crime occurring in the Amazon’s tri-border region of Colombia, Brazil, and Peru.

Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, has pledged a clean break with what he sees as the confrontational, violent policies of his predecessor.

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...

At the U.N., Duque reiterated his commitment to crack down on illicit coca production, strengthen the country’s peace process, and find a solution to the Venezuelan crisis.

Colombia's coca crop has been expanding by 45% per year since 2013 and reached a recorded high of 171,000 hectares in 2017.

The embassy is working to better understand the agricultural conditions in the coastal region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

The UN pledged to support "Colombia's activities to encourage local communities to voluntarily give up coca cultivation.”