Much attention has been put on fixing the problems of drug cartels in Mexico, with the U.S. putting pressure on its neighbor to the South to crack down on them. This has led some cartels’ operations to shift back to Colombia, where the illegal drug trade was a dominant business in the ’80s and ’90s. NewsNation’s Robert Sherman reports. More: https://trib.al/TP8EOs8 #VargasReports | NewsNation

24K views · 317 reactions | According to a report by Global Witness, 2020 was the deadliest year on record for environmental defenders. Colombia was the worst-affected country, the group said, with 65 defenders killed for either protecting Indigenous land or defending forests and their coca crops. CNN's Stefano Pozzebon reports on the indigenous activists who are under threat. | CNN | Facebook

830K views · 1.4K reactions | The cacao fruit grows abundantly in Colombia, and it's being used to combat illegal cocaine production. In 2017, the Colombian government started a crop substitution program, giving farmers the opportunity to replace illicit crops used to make cocaine, for legal ones, like cacao. | Business Insider Today | Facebook

Colombia announced it would use drones as it resumed aerial fumigation of coca plants. Aerial fumigation was banned in 2015, after the World Health Organization put the weed killer used on the crop, glyphosate, on a list of carcinogens. Now, as the Trump administration ramps up tensions with South American countries over the illegal drug trade, Colombian authorities are trying to curb the record cocaine production. | CGTN America | Facebook

94K views · 953 reactions | Drug trafficking in Peru produces $22 billion annually -- nearly 17% of the country's GDP. A staggering 14,800 tons of chemical waste from the cocaine production process is dumped in the Amazon river basin every year. #DrugsInc | National Geographic TV | Facebook