U.S. Congress Proposes Funding Cuts to Colombia over President’s Alleged Drug Use
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee expressed concerns about reports of drug abuse “at the highest levels” of the government of Colombia.

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee expressed concerns about reports of drug abuse “at the highest levels” of the government of Colombia.

A New York City doctor reportedly admitted to groping sedated patients and raping drugged women he met on dating sites, which he often filmed, during a Monday court hearing in which he pleaded guilty.

A Florida sheriff reports that a beachgoer found nearly half a million dollars worth of cocaine washed up on a beach. Deputies seized the approximately 25 kilos of cocaine. This is the second reported seizure of cocaine on a regional beach in the past few days.

British authorities seized 2.4 metric tons of cocaine in a ship arriving in England from Panama, authorities said Saturday, calling it one of the U.K.’s biggest drug busts in years.

Cocaine production, seizures, and use reached all-time highs in 2023, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in its latest world drug report published on Thursday.

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded a whopping 28,000 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades on Thursday.

The Colombian Navy announced this week that authorities seized more than six tons of cocaine from a so-called “narco sub.”

The FBI has reopened the probe into the bag of cocaine discovered by Secret Service agents in the White House under Joe Biden in 2023.

Macron’s office decried “disinformation” after grainy footage showed him self-consciously snatching small white object from conference table.

Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva revealed in a letter published on Tuesday that far-left President Gustavo Petro refused to speak to Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping for the entirety of a lavish banquet on his official visit to Beijing in 2023 — an incident Leyva claimed as evidence of Petro’s drug addiction problems.

The socialist regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro rejected claims made by far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday that Colombian drug trafficker Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego has formed an alliance with the National Liberation Army (ELN) Marxist terror group in Venezuelan territory.

Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti revealed in an interview on Sunday that he suffers from drug and alcohol addiction, asserting, “I wouldn’t want to be addicted, but I am.”

Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva claimed on Wednesday that far-left President Gustavo Petro suffers from drug addiction in an explosive letter highly critical of Petro and key members of his inner circle.

A Chicago Police Department recruit is reportedly accused of having crack cocaine in his pocket during a training exercise.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem met with far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro and other local government officials in Bogotá on Thursday evening to discuss security, the fight against drug trafficking, migration, and the repatriation of illegal Colombian migrants in the United States.

Drug trafficking generated more than $8.2 billion in Venezuela in 2024, according to a report published by the non-government organization Transparencia Venezuela on Wednesday.

Athletes have become increasingly inventive and creative when celebrating their exploits on the field, and that can have some very interesting outcomes.

Foreign Minister of Colombia Laura Sarabia on Monday urged the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to remove coca leaves — cocaine’s main ingredient — from its list of harmful substances.

Border Patrol agents and their law enforcement partners have managed to seize and prevent more than $25 million in cocaine from reaching the interior of the United States during the past seven days. The latest seizure, which occurred on Thursday near San Clemente, California, was nabbed after a Border Patrol K-9 unit sniffed out the illicit substance hidden in trash bags located in the trunk of a vehicle.

In three separate events in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, agents seized nearly 560 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $18 million. Two seizures occurred at a fixed highway checkpoint after routine immigration inspections. The third seizure resulted from a roving patrol stop initiated by Border Patrol agents. The three seizures were reported within hours of each other on Sunday morning.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro once again called for the legalization of cocaine and claimed it is “not worse than whiskey” during a disastrous six-hour-long meeting on Tuesday evening with his cabinet of ministers that the government broadcast live.

A high school dean in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is accused of running a drug trafficking organization, the FBI announced.

Australian police seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine and arrested 13 people in raids after the suspects’ boat broke down off the coast of Queensland, authorities said Monday.

Enough fentanyl to kill 2.5 million Americans was seized in a South Carolina drug investigation, the FBI announced Monday.

More than $1 million worth of cocaine was washed onto a Florida beach as Hurricane Debby reached Florida, bringing heavy rains and flooding.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is facing criticism for allowing advertisements that promote illegal drugs including cocaine and opioids on its social media platforms, even as it faces a federal investigation into the practice.

Police in New York City are warning residents of a drug from Colombia named tusi that has been flooding the Big Apple.

The drug policy changes that Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro enacted have led to a dramatic surge in cocaine production.

A recently unsealed indictment from a U.S. federal court claims that Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro is involved in the drug trade.

Drug overdoses are surging in New York, with seven deaths being reported within five hours in just one western county.

The United States Capitol Police (USCP) announced on Wednesday that they are investigating a “zip lock bag” left inside the agency’s headquarters building that contained a “small amount” of cocaine.

Actor Alec Baldwin has been clean of drugs and alcohol for 40 years and opened up about his past habits Wednesday in a candid chat with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson.

Swedish customs made one of the country’s biggest-ever cocaine seizures after confiscating around 1.4 tons of the drug near Stockholm.

The driver of a concrete truck that crashed into a school bus in Texas, killing two people, reportedly said he had used cocaine that morning.

A pair of suspected drug dealers have been hit with nearly 50 charges after they allegedly tried to smuggle court documents infused with fentanyl, cocaine, and PCP into jail, New York City officials say.

Quarterback Johnny Manziel recently revealed that he lost 40 pounds on a “strict diet of blow” following his flameout.

Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago announced the discovery on Sunday of a plastic bag containing more than $75,000 worth of cocaine washed up on a beach near the spot where a mysterious ship capsized this month, causing an oil spill that affected about ten miles of Tobago’s coastline.

A toxicology report found cocaine and other illegal drugs were inside the three Kansas City Chiefs fans who froze to death outside a home.

Advisers for First Lady Jill Biden have gotten tons of flak for scheduling her to give a speech at a school with an awkward name.

Authorities found cocaine residue on Hunter Biden’s gun pouch in 2018, the Justice Department (DOJ) revealed in a new filing Tuesday, hindering his legal defense against three gun charges.
