https://colombiareports.com/colombi...ed-farc-involvement-in-drug-trafficking/

Colombia receives DEA evidence of alleged FARC involvement in drug trafficking

https://dialogo-americas.com/en/articles/colombia-closes-sea-routes-international-narcotrafficking

Colombia Closes Sea Routes to International Narcotrafficking

https://colombiareports.com/former-employees-confirm-uribes-brother-led-death-squad/

Former employees confirm Uribe’s brother led death squad

http://valdostatoday.com/2018/06/me...r-drug-trafficking-and-money-laundering/

Valdez-Villareal obtained cocaine from Colombia, exported the cocaine from Mexico to customers located in the U.S. in tractor trailer loads of up to 300 kilograms twice per week

https://colombiareports.com/petro-vows-to-defend-uribe-from-extradition/

Petro vows to defend Uribe from extradition

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/wor...on-of-fear-for-those-who-live/?cmpid=rss

Colombia’s peace deal brings a new season of fear for those who live in areas once controlled by FARC

Turin businessman and wife killed in ambush in Colombia

Roberto Gaiottino, a 44-year-old construction contractor from Barbania, and his wife Claudia Patricia Zabala Dominguez, 36, were killed Saturday evening in Colombia at the exit of a restaurant on Circunvalar de Pereira Avenue in Risaralda, the city of Claudia Patricia.

The two, married since 2015 but together for a longer time, had just had dinner with a Colombian friend who remained unharmed in the shooting, which caused panic among passers-by. On the matter the federal police excludes robbery, leaning towards a targeted ambush.

Roberto Gaiottino belongs to a dynasty of building contractors who has long expanded the interests of his business to Colombia, while Claudia lived in Italy - in Barbania - for 15 years and often returned to Colombia to find family members. The bodies will be repatriated for the funeral in Barbania where the couple, who had no children, lived in a villa in the center.

https://newrepublic.com/article/149185/colombia-keeps-electing-presidents-tied-murderers

Why Colombia Keeps Electing Presidents Tied to Murderers

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...n-sentenced-31-years-conspiracy-55995193

Colombian drug kingpin caught in Argentina gets 31 years

https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/innovation-in-the-war-on-drugs-narcosubs#gs.YS1cDK0

Innovation in the War on Drugs: Narcosubs

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...us-helped-broker-peace-deal-dhs-official

Cocaine production in Colombia has increased five-fold since US helped broker peace deal: DHS official

https://www.rt.com/sport/430469-colombia-carlos-sanchez-death-threats/

Colombian police probe Sanchez death threats after star’s World Cup red card

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local...o-Over-30-Years-in-Prison-485902401.html

Colombian Drug Kingpin Who Became Informant Against 'El Chapo' Sentenced to Over 30 Years in Prison

Not suprising many dangerous people are upset.

https://inhomelandsecurity.com/persistent-evolving-threat-colombian-cocaine-united-states/

The Persistent and Evolving Threat of Colombian Cocaine into the United States

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_8b4dc386-7622-11e8-8297-83cf952b58b3.html

Lawsuit by slain drug smuggler Barry Seal's daughter over movie deal dismissed

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/zm87j9/the-own-goal-that-led-to-murder

The Own Goal That Led to Murder
A tale of two Escobars.

https://sputniknews.com/art_living/201806251065759697-colombian-drug-mansion-becomes-hostel/

In the Caribbean coastal city of Santa Marta, Colombia, Sputnik Mundo discovered a gigantic mansion once belonging to a drug cartel, which had been converted into unique lodging for tourists.

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/a...r-colombia-venezuela-border-communities/

EPL Urban Militia Sows Fear in Colombia-Venezuela Border Communities

https://colombiareports.com/pablo-escobars-former-hitman-financed-duque-coalition-congress-campaign/

‘Pablo Escobar’s former hitman financed Duque coalition congress campaign’

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/b...ion-hits-new-record-high-us-figures-say/


Cocaine production hits an all time high in Colombia. Increased by 19 percent from last year.


How is it that even thou all the big cartels seems to loose power, the cocaine production rises every year. Could it be that European groups plays a much larger role in the coke trade than before?

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/gwen-burnyeat/short-cuts

Short Cuts

I personally think that when one cartel becomes weak due to police arrests,raids or other; there is always another cartel ready to pick up the slack. When there is too much money at play you will always find someone to fill the void.

https://www.americanthinker.com/art...ill_the_void_in_a_postfarc_colombia.html

Mexican Cartels Fill the Void in a Post-FARC Colombia

Always wondered how it is Colombia that managed to spawn such top tier criminal organizations in the region. Other South American nations like Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela...face similar problems in regards to poverty, especially Venezuela seems to be an even more violent nation and the cultivation of coca takes place the most in Bolivia or Peru. Yet organized crime syndicates in those other South American nations are not as widespread and not as notorious as the Colombians'.

You make a very good point. Possibly, Colombians have better entrepreneurial skills ?

The Colombians have connections to US and Europe, thanks to the CIA.

https://intomore.com/impact/the-forgotten-lgbtq-victims-of-colombias-civil-war

The Forgotten LGBTQ Victims of Colombia’s Civil War

https://www.twincities.com/2018/07/...the-fallen-was-to-get-the-newspaper-out/

Rosario: The best tribute to the fallen was to get the newspaper out

https://www.thecanary.co/global/wor...sonment-of-a-blind-colombian-peacemaker/

Unite denounces the imprisonment of a blind Colombian peacemaker