Freddy, a 46-year-old who did not give his last name for fear of reprisals from a cartel, left the Colombian military at age 32 after more than a decade of intense combat fighting leftist guerrillas.

Freddy, a 46-year-old who did not give his last name for fear of reprisals from a cartel, left the Colombian military at age 32 after more than a decade of intense combat fighting leftist guerrillas.

Ismael Zambada García will spend life in prison. He had been charged with running a criminal network that sold cocaine, ...

The Justice Department has said it would not seek the death penalty for former cartel leader Ismael Zambada García and other ...

The cartel is believed to number between 6,000 and 9,000 members, according to government estimates. Since peace efforts stalled, Colombia's government has launched a series of attacks on the group.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says armed dissidents, drug trafficking cartels should be considered ‘terrorists’.

War followed Griselda Blanco. She was born in Colombia’s Caribbean region of Cartagena-Santa Marta where the use of violence over agrarian disputes and smuggling highly dictated bipartisan politics.

Fabio Ochoa, a former member of Cartel of Medellin, speaks to the media upon his arrival at El Dorado airport, after being deported from the United States, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.

In Colombia, she notes, drug traffickers assassinated hundreds of judges. "The narcos completely decimated the justice system in Colombia," she said.

Violence in Colombia’s Pacific region is being driven not only by new generation BACRIM groups but also by drug traffickers from the long gone Cali Cartel, say security forces, as Colombia’s past ...

In the late 80s and early 90s the Medellín Cartel killed police officers, politicians, judges, journalists and bystanders as it waged war on the Colombian state, which had stepped up its efforts ...