On Saturday, a Colombian presidential candidate was shot in the head at a rally in the country’s capital, Bogotá. The violent ...

Mexico’s security chief says that the country’s most powerful drug cartels are recruiting former Colombian soldiers, leading ...

Colombian mercenaries are being lured to Mexico to fight for powerful drug trafficking groups such as the Jalisco New ...

Eight members of Colombia's largest cartel have died in clashes with security forces, the army said Tuesday, the latest in a series of raids against one of Latin America's most powerful criminal ...

The Medellín Cartel was one of Colombia’s most powerful and violent criminal organizations. Its legacy extends beyond drug trafficking, as it transformed the dynamics of organized crime and left an ...

There were no reports of any injuries. The Norte del Valle cartel became Colombia’s most powerful after the dismantling of the Medellin and Cali cartels in the 1980s and early 90s. Officials ...

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 ...

The leader of one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels is set ... nephew and using violent means to secure his cartel's dominance across Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador. More U.S. Department ...

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 ...

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The son-in-law of one of Mexico’s most powerful cartel bosses has been arrested in California — after federal prosecutors say he faked his own death so he could disappear to “live a life of ...