President Gustavo Petro's voluntary coca eradication and substitution strategy has strained relations with the United States amid pressure for more aggressive tactics.
Drug traffickers profit from end of intelligence cooperation between Colombia and the US
Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended intelligence sharing with U.S. agencies over Caribbean missile attacks on boats, halting decades of bilateral cooperation.
Trump admin expands its war on "narco-terrorists" to eastern Pacific
U.S. forces carried out maritime strikes targeting suspected narco-traffickers, killing several people, prompting transparency concerns, international condemnation, and diplomatic retaliation from Colombia.
President Petro accuses US of killing Colombians in attacks on narco-boats'
U.S. aerial strikes in the Caribbean have killed at least 21 people; Colombia's president alleges some victims were Colombian and demands the names be released.