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The mayhem has been stirred up by the relentless rise in the price of gold and by a glut in the production of coca, cocaine’s ...

In the south of Bolívar, for example, confrontations between the ex-FARC mafia’s 37th Front, the ELN, and AGC over control of illegal gold mining have provoked a humanitarian crisis, according to an ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

The government says the group finances itself through drug trafficking, illegal mining and kidnapping. Negotiations with the ELN under previous administrations faltered on the group's diffuse ...

Colombia's Procurator's Office says the country has lost nearly 88,900 hectares of forest — an area larger than New York City — in six months due to illegal road construction, expanding coca ...

Since 2020, when the Zijin mine opened, Colombian authorities have deployed 50 police from the National Unit Against Illegal Mining and Terrorism (UNMIL), who provide 24-hour security inside the ...

Illicit crop cultivation in Colombia’s national natural parks: Dynamics, drivers, and policy responses. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development , 3 (1), 22-35. doi: 10.31389/jied.81 ...

With Colombia's potential cocaine production hitting record levels, according U.N. estimates, oil theft is on the rise: the volume stolen from two of Colombia's major oil pipelines has more than ...

The Attorney General's Office of Colombia issued a communiqué alerting about high levels of mercury and lead in the Cali River. Copper $ 5.107 / lb -0.04% Brent Crude Oil $ 66.53 / bbl -0.42% ...

In the span of one year, from 2021 to 2022, deforestation in Colombia dropped from 174,103 hectares (672sq miles) to 123,517 hectares (477sq miles), marking a nearly 30-percent decrease.