The cartels have expanded their cultivation areas and have invested part of their fortunes in "innovation to modify the genetics of plants," explains a Civil Guard commander. "There is overproduction ...

Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, stated that the global cocaine business could be dismantled if that drug were legalized ...

Colombia's cocaine production reached a record high in 2023, despite government efforts to combat the illicit industry. The booming cocaine trade is driving insecurity, corruption, and violence, ...

The endless growth of the global cocaine trade and the game of whack-a-mole to stop it has propelled innovation and experimentation from drug trafficking organizations to get their product out into ...

Why you should care about tensions between the Trump and Maduro administrations, what a power vacuum could mean for Venezuela’s armed groups, and the impact of more US military action on the ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: So if I wanted to get a meeting with El Mencho, what would I have ...

BIRN reporters trace the rise of Albanian crime gangs to the top of the European cocaine trafficking ladder, from remote parts of Paraguay to European Union ports. On the afternoon of November 5, 2020 ...