Colombia and the region are paying the price for slow implementation of the 2016 peace accord, but a turnaround is still ...

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon will sit down with U.S. security advisors to discuss ways the two countries can better fight the war on drugs and the war ...

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With a change of defense minister Wednesday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos broke both strategically and personally with the military strategy of the “Democratic Security” policy that was ...

The Colombian government is drawing up a new cyber defense strategy to deal with the growing rate of cyber attacks, as the Andean country continues to use information technology to overhaul its ...

Police patrol a neighborhood abandoned by residents due to fear of criminal gangs in Buenaventura, Colombia ... He is also turning to the military strategies used by his predecessors.

Authorities in Cali, Colombia have attributed a decrease in homicides to a combination of citizen security measures and increased presence of security forces, highlighting effective strategies that ...

The crop-substitution strategy is set out ... caught between the security forces and the drug gangs, are among the most vulnerable to it. Nowhere is Colombia’s many-sided drug war more intense ...

However, the investigation by the books authors uncovered several sources who identified secret joint security operations carried out while the journalists were being held hostage. Colombia’s special ...

In May, Colombia broke diplomatic relations with Israel ... On the security front, the government will persevere on its Total Peace plan. But absent changes to the security strategy and a clear legal ...

In an effort to combat the drug trade, Colombia has historically deployed security forces to fumigate ... experiments with a new anti-narcotics strategy, the president will face pressure, both ...