The Colombian Minister of Defense, present at the meeting between Kristi Noem and the president, claims that he compared the ...

In the shadow of a fentanyl crisis, the global cocaine market has exploded — wreaking havoc on communities from South America ...

The recent capture of several leaders of the Camorra and the ‘Ndragheta highlights the extensive operations of European crime ...

The demobilization of an ELN faction is a symbolic rather than substantive step forward for Colombia’s Total Peace policy.

Ecuador is headed to a second round of a presidential election in which incumbent President Daniel Noboa faces leftist ...

Reelected with an iron fist campaign, Daniel Noboa consolidates his bet for the militarization of security and the close ...

Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla member, was elected as Colombia’s first avowedly leftist president, promising to fight ...

Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Gabriel Boric of Chile. "Security has been his principal mandate as the president of Ecuador. He’s dedicated a lot of time, effort and resources to deal with the ...

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has said that "cocaine is no worse than whiskey" and that it is only illegal because it comes from Latin America. The leftist leader — who has struggled to ...

In a tweet dating back to 2019, a Colombian senator named Gustavo Petro said: “The Mexican cartels today control everything from coca leaf to the sale of cocaine in a New York street corner.

The global suspension of USAID funding is shuttering peace and anti-gang programs in Colombia's most impoverished places, endangering implementation of the country's 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC ...

With upcoming elections in the region, there could be more countries aligned with Trump, said AS/COA's executive vice president.