Colombian President Gustavo Petro has repeatedly claimed Mexican cartels are behind violence in the country's conflict zone, ...

But since president Gustavo Petro took office as the country's first ... insisted Monday that the coca leaf, cocaine's main ingredient, 'is itself not harmful to health'. Removing it from a ...

No one enters or leaves without the guerrillas' say-so, state-issued IDs are worthless and cocaine production ... In October, Colombian President Gustavo Petro launched Operation Persius to ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.

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 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 ...

Commanders from Colombia's National Liberation Army guerrilla group have vowed to repel a government counteroffensive in the country's northeast, warning that years of "total peace" risk turning ...

No one enters or leaves without the guerrillas' say-so, state-issued IDs are worthless and cocaine production is not just tolerated ... In October, Colombian President Gustavo Petro launched Operation ...