Colombia sprays record drug area
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The Colombian anti-narcotics police say that a record number of drug crops were sprayed during 2004.
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American-backed counter-narcotic programs in Colombia and Mexico are disrupting the flow of cocaine into the United States, driving up prices 44 percent on U.S. streets this year, the White House drug czar said Thursday.
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KABUL - Afghanistan&#39;s opium production is approaching record levels. A new United Nations report says drug production has shot up more than 60 per cent in the past year.
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CARTAGENA, Colombia--President Bush pledged more funding to support Colombia&#39;s fight against drugs and violence during a visit Monday to the world&#39;s cocaine capital, telling
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BUENAVENTURA, Colombia  - Colombia's most infamous cocaine lords have been killed or jailed, violence has fallen sharply and drug seizures are at an all-time high.
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Â·  Colombian farmers driven out as armed groups profit Â·  Lucrative 'green' crop less risky to grow than coca
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One of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, in an interview broadcast Monday, claimed credit for the 1993 killing of rival drug lord Pablo Escobar, saying he supplied police with a tracking device that allowed them to hunt down the Medellin drug cartel leader.
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TIBU, Colombia -- After nearly 10 years of fighting anti-government rebels, Julio Cesar Arce strode onto a muddy field one recent day and joined 1,400 fellow paramilitary fighters in a ceremony marking the largest voluntary disarmament in his country's violent history.
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Most of the cocaine that enters the US has passed through the hands of Colombia's Farc rebels, a US official says.
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A shootout erupted in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded, authorities said Sunday.
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BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua  - From the drug runners' point of view, the working environment along Nicaragua's Caribbean coast is as good as it gets.
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A Colombian man who prosecutors called one of the world's most significant drug kingpins was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in prison for money-laundering and smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States.
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Colombian rebels attempted to traffic drugs through Chile, police said Saturday in describing the seizure of almost a half-ton of cocaine and arrests 12 people.
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A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies
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Bogota, Nov. 28 (NNN): The largest guerrilla group in Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), had ordered to assassinate US President George Walker Bush during a recent visit there, country
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - President Bush was targetedfor assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel groupthis week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena,a top Colombian official said on Saturday.
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A reputed drug lord on the FBI's top 10 most-wanted list was captured in western Colombia, the interior minister said Monday, in a major blow to the country's largest remaining drug cartel.