Abelardo de la Espriella promises more prisons and a crackdown after cocaine production and the ranks of armed groups expanded across the country.

Positioned near coca farms and Pacific smuggling corridors, Cali has become a violent microcosm of a global drug boom.

The question is not whether Abelardo de la Espriella is willing to fight the cartels. Everyone knows he is. The real question ...

Colombia is entering a pivotal new chapter after the election of right-wing populist Abelardo de la Espriella, whose victory ...

MIAMI—Colombian officials are working to eliminate the nation’s illicit cocaine trade and replace it with chocolate. “We say to the world, ‘Please buy cocoa, not coca,’” Defense Minister Pedro Arnulfo ...

In May, Colombians will choose a successor to President Gustavo Petro, the first leftist leader in the country’s modern history. The results of that election will cement — or erase — Petro’s legacy at ...

Two decades after it started spraying coca fields with herbicide, Colombia is torn between continuing to wage a US-sponsored war on drugs from the sky and mounting fears of health risks. Launched in ...

WSJ reports from the epicenter of deadly turf wars over lucrative drug corridors that have plunged Colombia into its worst violence in decades. Photo: Eve Hartley CATATUMBO, Colombia—Violent militias ...

HE won, BIG!” exulted Donald Trump on Truth Social, welcoming the victory of Abelardo De La Espriella, his preferred ...