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After 'glorifying violence' on Twitter, former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe to speak at NYU event
The former Colombian leader has been accused of collaborating with right-wing death squads and inci…
Charles Davis
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How the deployment of the Army's brand-new training unit became a headache for one of the US's closest allies
After an otherwise normal deployment sparked political backlash, the US and Colombia have been less…
Christopher Woody
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Colombia, Cuba, and the defiant hypocrisy of Marco Rubio
Both countries have seen popular protests suppressed with violence. But the US senator from Florida…
Charles Davis
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Trump's handling of the coronavirus has another ally questioning the US's friendship
"I can say adamantly that we have not been treated with goodness by the United States, and it's a c…
Christopher Woody
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The head of the US Coast Guard wants to cut a vital artery in the heart of the global cocaine trade
"They're trying to do a flanking movement around us. They're coming out of rivers in Tumaco, Colomb…
Christopher Woody
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In the world's biggest cocaine producer, cultivation has hit an 'all time high' and the new president is vowing harsh measures that will please Trump
The area under cultivation has steadily risen. The 42% spike between 2014 and 2015 was the largest …
Christopher Woody
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'The United States had lost its mind': What the Parkland shooting looked like in a country emerging from civil war
In 2017, Colombia saw its lowest homicide rate in 42 years - 24 homicides per 100,000 people - Pres…
Christopher Woody
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'Like a natural disaster had hit': Venezuela's crisis is spilling over its borders - here's what it's like at ground zero of the exodus
Adam Isacson, the director for defense oversight at the Washington Office in Latin America, spent F…
Christopher Woody
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Trump administration is extending a ban on 'non-essential' travel at the borders with Canada and Mexico — including a ban on asylum-seekers
Public health experts say the ban on refugees has no basis in science, with critics charging it's m…
Charles Davis
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Here's how drugs are getting smuggled from South America to the US
"A lot of that stuff you see going into Costa Rica, that's when they first track it and then it'll …
Christopher Woody
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4 common misconceptions about how drugs get to the US through Mexico and Central America
The issue of illegal narcotics flowing from Latin America into the US through Central America and M…
Adam Isacson, Washington Offi…
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Colombia's cash-strapped government is trying to root out the cocaine trade, but farmers are relying on it as an 'insurance policy'
"What really happened, I think, is that the government did stop fumigating, which was a factor," sa…
Christopher Woody
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Colombia's cocaine production is at an all-time high, and the country's navy keeps catching 'narco subs'
Colombia's soldiers stand around a homemade submarine in Tumaco, southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 4…
Christopher Woody
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The Coast Guard is struggling with 'a capacity challenge' amid a cocaine boom
In March, a Coast Guard cutter unloaded 16 tons of cocaine seized by US and Canadian ships over a …
Christopher Woody
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This poignant photo is a reminder of the people forgotten in the immigration debate
This photo, tweeted out by Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America, captur…
Christopher Woody
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US officials are raising alarm over Colombia's cocaine boom, but they may be 'missing most of the picture'
"In addition, the United States Government seriously considered designating Colombia as a country t…
Christopher Woody
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Despite Trump's tough talk on the border, migrants are still making the dangerous trip north
Those 325 migrants were "equal to what Border Patrol was apprehending in an entire day at the entir…
Christopher Woody
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In the world's biggest cocaine producer, cultivation reportedly surged again in 2016
"There will be noise, especially in Congress, but moderates who want to give Colombia a chance to i…
Christopher Woody
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Colombia's failed peace-deal vote could make its cocaine problem worse
If the "political limbo" lasts two to three weeks, the FARC won't revert back to the drug trade and…
Christopher Woody
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Drug traffickers are pushing deadly violence to record levels in a tranquil corner of Latin America
Costa Rica has reduced police training in order to deploy more officers (less training may make tho…