Nick Miroff
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 06:56
If the Colombian government and the country’s largest rebel group finalize a historic peace accord in the coming months, they will set in motion a process of daunting logistical complexity.The government’s most immediate challenge: to persuade more than 6,000 heavily armed fighters to come down from the mountains, hand over their weapons and start new lives as law-abiding civilians.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - 06:18
Illegal coca cultivation is surging in Colombia, erasing one of the showcase achievements of U.S. counternarcotics policy and threatening to send a burst of cheap cocaine through the smuggling pipeline to the United States.
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 06:16
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the FARC rebel group announced a major breakthrough Wednesday in peace talks, bringing the country to the verge of ending one of the world’s longest-running wars.
Monday, July 13, 2015 - 06:29
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the world’s most famous drug lord, escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico for the second time in his drug-running career, a spectacular breach of security that set off a wide-ranging manhunt early Sunday.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 07:10
There's a border somewhere in the vast no-man's land of jungles and rivers between Venezuela and Guyana, but for more than a century the two countries have not been able to agree where it is.
Monday, January 12, 2015 - 07:25
Heroin and meth are far easier to transport and conceal than marijuana. Especially worrisome to U.S. officials is a growing trend of more border-crossing pedestrians carrying the drugs strapped under their clothing or hidden in body cavities.
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 12:15
With pressure building for Maduro to change course, he is showing signs of adopting a more pragmatic approach, analysts say, even as it sets up a potential split with the other heirs of “chavismo”.
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 06:58
DEA officials caution that it is too early to say whether the rush of Central American migrants is responsible for the falling drug interdiction numbers, noting that the biggest narcotics loads in Texas are typically seized from vehicles at highway checkpoints farther north, not on the banks of the Rio Grande.
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 10:16
Santos secured a comfortable win that could give his negotiating team additional leverage with FARC commanders.
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 07:27
If the talks eventually succeed, it could mean the sudden demobilization of 7,000 to 10,000 FARC combatants — men and women who would need counseling, social services and, most important, jobs decent enough to keep them from parlaying their military training into high-paid work for Colombia's drug mafias.