Colombia's return to hardline anti-narcotics policy

L'insécurité en Colombie,  entre la peur du narcotrafic et l'espoir d'une reprise en main

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The number of members in armed groups in Colombia nearly doubled between 2022 and 2025, according to the International Crisis Group.

Between 2022 and 2025, the number of members in Colombian armed groups nearly doubled, according to the International Crisis Group.

The 2016 peace agreement led the FARC guerrilla to lay down their arms.

In 2016, a peace agreement was reached with the FARC guerrilla group, which resulted in the group laying down its arms.

Following this 2016 peace deal, other armed groups filled the resulting power vacuum and shifted their primary focus toward drug trafficking instead of ideology.

In the early 2000s, the far-right President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia used glyphosate to destroy coca plantations to fight drug trafficking and the FARC guerrilla.

In the early 2000s, during the presidency of Álvaro Uribe, glyphosate was used to destroy coca plantations as part of efforts to fight drug trafficking and the FARC guerrilla.

According to reports from farmers, the spraying during that period did not only target coca but also destroyed food crops such as plantains and cassava.