US intelligence agency CIA claimed cocaine was being applied to the male sex organ after late US President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971. Urologists were unable to confirm the intelligence agency’s claim until 2004 when a patient walked into a New York City hospital with penile necrosis. The 32-year-old man told the […]
The repatriation of former paramilitary warlord Hernan Giraldo, a.k.a. “The Drill,” is causing unrest in northern Colombia where some of his children are engaged in a turf war. Giraldo was released from prison in the United States after serving 13 years for drug trafficking in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region initially as a […]
Residents of Colombia’s three largest cities woke up to another weekend-long curfew on Saturday as the coronavirus has hospitals on the brink of collapse. The curfew took force a day after a new strain of the virus that was discovered in Brazil spurred the country’s migration agency to remain its land borders closed until March […]
President-elect Joe Biden wants to end the United States’ so-called “War on Drugs,” which may force Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to drastically revise domestic drug policies. Duque gladly returned to the hardline stance on drug use and drug trafficking promoted by his political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe, after taking office in 2018. Despite the […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a game-changer for Colombia’s cocaine trade and global counternarcotics efforts. While US president Donald Trump visited the Mexican border, authorities in the Netherlands said Tuesday they seized 47 metric tons of mainly Colombian cocaine in Rotterdam in 2020. Another 69 tons destined for Europe’s largest seaport were seized in South […]
Colombia’s police are responsible for 289 homicides committed for which only two policemen were convicted since 2017, according to a local human rights group. The Police Violence Observatory of NGO Temblores obtained the information from the Medical Examiner’s Office, which determines people’s cause of death, newspaper El Espectador reported on Tuesday. The police would be […]
Colombia’s ambassador to Washington DC used last week’s assault on Capitol Hill to suck up to US President-elect Joe Biden after learning his alleged election meddling would have consequences. In a column on the website of CNN, Ambassador Francisco Santos said Saturday that “Colombia knows how precious democracy is, and just as the US has […]
Colombia’s late president Virgilio Barco personally approved the extermination of thousands of leftist political leaders and activists in 1986, according to local media. A source involved in the high-level plot told journalist Alberto Donadio that the military was in charge of the extermination of the Patriotic Union party after legendary Israeli intelligence chief Rafi Eitan […]
American citizens and politicians need to know their political divisions are eerily similar to the ones that led to the war Colombia is struggling to get out of. I’m not going to pretend to know anything about America, but I’m also not going to pretend that I’m not horrified by what I’ve heard and read […]
The director of the National Health Institute (INS) said Thursday that her office identified a strain of the coronavirus that so far has only been detected in Colombia. This “Colombian” strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 was first discovered in March last year but has yet to be proven either more infectious or more […]