According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 50-year-old Juan Carlos Castro Vasquez was sentenced to a 20-year federal prison ...

The drug lord Pablo Escobar built a private zoo filled with hippos, but things took a dangerous turn when he was shot dead.

Ecuadoreans re-elected President Daniel Noboa to a four-year term Sunday, giving him another chance to carry out a crackdown ...

Carolos Lehder, who served over 30 years in a U.S. prison, once owned a luxurious hotel, which had caged lions and a large ...

Days after the death of a top Gulf Clan commander, the military said it had killed eight more of the cartel's members and ...

A Colombian drug kingpin who went by kid-friendly names like "Shrek," "Happy," and "Teletubis" is facing life sentence after ...

Colombian national Cristian Javier Vente Ocoro pleads guilty to charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., ...

Colombia said it’s acting “decisively” against transnational organized crime after a senior US official described the country ...

Carlos Lehder, a former leader of the Medellín Cartel and close ally of Pablo Escobar, was released in Colombia after a local ...

That angered the ELN’s leadership and stymied its negotiations with Colombia’s government. Petro, who was part of a rebel ...

The arrests of seven mayors in Venezuela show how President Maduro has weaponized the supposed fight against crime for his ...

A SCOT nicked in Colombia on a drug smuggling charge is home after prosecutors botched the case. Ricky Courage, 32, was accused of trying to fly out of South America with almost two kilos of ...