U.S. Special Forces soldiers are advising and supporting Ecuadorean commandos on raids across the country against suspected ...

Washington says the two countries are combatting what the US calls designated terrorist organisations in the South American country.

Colombian police say they have arrested 121 suspects in a nationwide crackdown on kidnapping and extortion tied to major criminal groups.

Plata y plomo: the unstable bargain the Colombia government must make with the descendants of Pablo Escobar's pet hippos.

Colombian authorities arrested one of the international commanders of Tren de Aragua this week, taking Jorge Luis Páez ...

Even if U.S. drug policy weren’t being created by people with the analytical skills of a meth-addled raccoon, it probably ...

Ecuador’s president has labeled Colombia its “worst trade partner” and defended ramping up a tariff fight over border security and cocaine flows.

The global cocaine market is the fastest-growing segment of the illicit drug trade, driven by rising production in South ...

Leaders across the region are thought to have been spurred into action, at least in part, by the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from Caracas in a lightning strike US military ...

After a two-year critical review, the WHO has decided to retain the coca leaf in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. Despite finding no evidence of meaningful public health harms, the Expert ...

Cocaine has roared back worldwide, thanks to escalated coca cultivation and user demand. It has brought with it global overdose deaths.