At least 36 people were injured in Colombia after car bomb explosions took place at a military base near the country's border with Venezuela on Tuesday.
The government of Colombia shrunk the land surface under coca cultivation by seven percent in 2020, but the country remained the largest cocaine producer in the world, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) stated in their report, Wednesday.
Colombia's mass protests rumble on into their second month as protesters continue to face police brutality while economic fallout in the country persists.
Mass protests in Colombia continued despite Pres. Ivan Duque withdrawing the proposed tax reform and a week of deadly clashes between demonstrators and police.
Colombia's Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo, 69, died in the hospital after he tested positive for COVID-19. President Ivan Duque had a televised address on Tuesday announcing the death of the defense minister.
About 100 hippos of the descendants of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's former pets are now invading Colombia's waterways and poisoning wildlife with their toxic urine and feces, scientists said.
Colombian Senator Iván Marulanda said the state should start considering ways to legalize cocaine and allow distribution to users as his proposed bill to do so moves along Colombia's congress.
Carlos Lehder of the Medellin Drug Cartel, Pablo Escobar's notorious crime partner who flooded the streets of the U.S. with billions worth of cocaine, was recently released from jail.
