US said the designations were based on a combination of geographic, commercial and economic factors that make drug production or transit possible.

Colombia’s oil and gas reserves could be revised up this year compared to 2024, but oil output continues to drop amid a hostile climate to oil and gas, social and security issues ...

Harsh criticism ensued in Congress in response to the United States’ decision to decertify Colombia as a reliable partner in the US-led war on drugs. The US decision exacerbated the pre-existing ...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro plans to create a truth commission to investigate the violent repression of protest that left many dozens dead and hundreds in jail between 2019 and 2021. In a ...

On Tuesday, Petro accused the U.S. of interfering in Colombian politics as the country prepares for elections next year. The ...

President Gustavo Petro said Ecopetrol should sell its stake in a Texas oil field it operates with Occidental Petroleum and ...

Colombia on Tuesday halted arms purchases from the United States, its biggest military partner, after Washington decertified ...

Colombia's top military officer said his country will fight the resurgent cocaine trade with or without help from the US, ...

BOGOTA — Colombia’s top military officer has told AFP that his country will fight the resurgent cocaine trade with or without ...

Decertification is an outdated foreign policy that risks alienating longstanding allies of the US in Latin America.

On September 15, 2025, US Navy forces carried out lethal strikes on Venezuelan drug boats, killing narco-terror operatives.