No one suffers from the drug war more than Colombia. When Nixon declared the War on Drugs, it was abstract, like the War on Poverty. In Colombia it is real.

Cocaine Trade Causes Rifts in Colombian War. Paramilitary Discord Imperils Anti-Drug Plan, Peace Efforts. September 16, 2002. By Scott Wilson. IN THE ABIBE MOUNTAINS, Colombia -- Drug trafficking ...

Re “U.S. Deficit Follows Bush on Trip” and “Bush’s Colombian Connection,” editorial, Nov. 23: Writer Peter Wallsten fails to mention an aggravating factor in President Bush’s call for ...

When Colombian President Andres Pastrana came to Washington this week, he asked for more help in his battle against Colombia's drug lords and also in his country's four-decade civil war. He got ...

All of which means that the drug war in Colombia may be at a stalemate. With diminishing returns on enforcement, American and Colombian officials are at a loss to say what, exactly, their endgame is.

As the world's top cocaine producer, Colombia reached its highest production level since 1991, producing 1,738 tons worth $193 billion in 2022. Colombia's leading export is transitioning from ...

The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated into a new phase of violence, as intense fighting between two Colombian guerrilla groups erupted in the Catatumbo region, a key cocaine production ...

The drug certification process dates from the days of President Ronald Reagan's war on drugs. The last time Colombia was blacklisted was in the late 1990s, when cocaine was found on Samper's ...

The United States is pouring $1.3 billion into Colombia to support the same carrot-and-stick strategy that has failed over the past decade to stem the flow of drugs. The difference now is that the ...

Colombia, one of the world’s top producers of cocaine, has long been a key partner in Washington’s failed war on drugs.But Gustavo Petro, the newly sworn-in Colombian president, has made good ...