Gustavo Petro

(Newser) - Cocaine is staging a record-breaking global comeback. NPR reports that after years of decline, the world is now experiencing a historic boom in cocaine supply—one that researchers say has cut prices and fueled thousands of additional overdose deaths in the US. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime...

(Newser) - Colombia's coca-fueled conflict just picked up a cheap, deadly upgrade: store-bought drones. Since April 2024, Colombia's military says cocaine-funded armed groups have launched roughly 400 drone attacks, killing nearly 60 soldiers and police officers and injuring close to 300, per the Wall Street Journal . In one pre-Christmas strike,...

(Newser) - President Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, are suddenly talking instead of trading barbs, CBS News reports. The White House says Trump spoke by phone with the Colombian president on Wednesday, days after the US leader described Colombia as "very sick" and Petro as a "sick man"...

(Newser) - President Trump's talk of using US troops against Colombia has triggered a backlash from Bogota and exposed a split between the country's political and military leadership. Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Monday blasted Trump's suggestion that American forces in the Caribbean could be deployed against his country...