Fifty-seven soldiers who had been held captive by locals in the mountains of Colombia since the weekend have been freed in a ...

For Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Amazonian and Andean forests, coca is sacred. Many ancestral traditions, such as healing and shamanic practices, include the use and cultivation of the ...

Some 253,000 hectares were planted with coca leaf in 2023, the report said, up from 230,000 in 2022. That brought last year's potential cocaine production up 53% to 2,644 metric tons, compared ...

Colombia and the region are paying the price for slow implementation of the 2016 peace accord, but a turnaround is still ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced a plan Monday to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying farmers while they switch to ...

Colombia’s army says 57 soldiers were kidnapped in a cocaine-producing region by civilians tied to rebel dissidents ...

Colombia's military says 57 soldiers have been kidnapped by civilians in the country's south-western Micay Canyon area. It says ...

Nearly half of coca crops are located in special management zones like natural parks (4%), Indigenous reservations (10%), forest reserves (14%), and land titled to Afro-Colombian communities (20%).

According to the Colombian Ombudsman's Office, 409 children and teenagers were recruited by armed groups in 2024.

Colombia’s deforestation dropped 33% in early 2025 compared to last year, with significant reductions in Amazon national parks.

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