Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying ...

Colombia's newly appointed defense minister says he will focus on taking back territory lost to rebel groups that have forced ...

Colombia has urged the UN to remove cocaine's main ingredient from its list of harmful substances, after its president said the drug is 'no worse than whiskey.' The country is the world's biggest ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...

Colombia President Gustavo Petro is calling on his country's Congress to legalize marijuana, saying its prohibition "only ...

The struggle to dominate the cocaine trade has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. However, Colombia’s progressive president Gustavo Petro now wants to go further and end the war on drugs ...

Authorities accuse the ELN of collaborating with Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, though the group denies direct involvement in drug ...

I ask Colombian Congress to legalize marijuana,' says Gustavo Petro, adding that 'prohibition of marijuana in Colombia only ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced a ... violence and weaken rebel groups that profit from the cocaine trade. The region has approximately 55,000 hectares of coca ...

According to the Foreign Ministry, the administration of President Gustavo Petro confiscated 1.9 ... to effectively reduce the cultivation of coca for the purpose of cocaine production. Colombia is ...