Police officers found around 1.7 tons of cocaine hidden within a shipment of avocados in Santa Marta, Colombia, according to the director general of the National Police of Colombia.

A turf war over the control over Colombia’s Caribbean port cities has expanded to Santa Marta, one of the country’s oldest drug trafficking hubs. According to the Ombudsman’s Office, some 1.000 people ...

Colombia’s security forces have been involved in the drug trade since the beginning. On the Caribbean coast, cops began extorting marijuana traders in the 1960s and ended up being their enforcers.