Around 700,000 cows are smuggled into Colombia each month. The ELN is involved in all manner of criminal economies along the Colombian-Venezuelan border, but its continuing role in facilitating cattle ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government has reached a deal with cattle farmers to buy 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land, earmarked for poor rural farmers to push agrarian reform aimed at ...

A big drop in cattle rustling in Colombia appears to be related to the increasingly local criminal networks involved in this illicit market, but authorities are far from eradicating it completely.

Gilberto Tomazoni, global CEO of meat multinational JBS, recently advocated support for rural producers, as a way to scale up ...