Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was no ordinary criminal. Born in Rionegro, Colombia in 1949, he rose from petty crime to become ...

A fugitive known as Colombia's “Contraband King” corrupted agents in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with expensive trips, fine dining and even prostitutes.

Matta Ballesteros lived part-time in Colombia, where he operated as the main intermediary ... often used extreme violence to invade areas it seeks to control. The cartel’s most powerful contacts were ...

MIAMI — In the sordid annals of Colombia’s underworld, Diego Marín stood out as the ultimate survivor. Time and again, the reputed henchman for the Cali cartel evaded capture — or worse ...

Ten Colombian former soldiers were among the suspects arrested after an improvised landmine killed six Mexican troops in a ...

The intricate scheme, spanning four continents, appears to justify concerns that the military arsenal of Bashar al-Assad, the ...

A man whom San Diego federal prosecutors say supplied large quantities of cocaine to some of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels pleaded ... of cocaine from Colombia, through Ecuador and then ...

In April, Paul Graham, the founder of the tech startup accelerator Y Combinator, sent a tweet in response to former YC ...

MEXICO CITY - Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, was captured before dawn Monday, officials announced. It was the first major blow ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia ... the cartel victims said Tuesday they are hoping the former drug lord will at least cooperate with ongoing efforts by human rights groups to investigate one of the most ...