Colombia

Read a Navy SEAL’s travel experience in the age of COVID.

Columbian President Ivan Duque has announced CONAT, an elite unit for “subduing, beating and subjecting” narcos, rebels and drug traffickers.

Duque: This criminal was killed in a meticulous operation of shared intelligence by the national army of Colombia and the national police.

Duque said that given the seriousness of the crime, they “should immediately lose the connotation of being a member of Congress.”

‘Manhunters’ tracks the journey of the DEA agents who worked to take down Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel.

What happens when a former Navy SEAL and a former CIA officer get together and decide to study the drug trade? A splendid and gripping documentary series. The Bussiness of Drugs, which premiers today on NETFLIX, offers an original approach to the international drug trade. Created and produced by former Navy SEAL and journalist Kaj […]

Ah, life in the military is very rarely boring. You get to travel to some exotic — well, different — places and meet some of the most interesting types of people. But one time-honored tradition was celebrating the 4th of July, our Independence Day, while deployed outside of the United States. For me, there are […]

William “Chief” Carlson came to Delta Force from one of the Green Beret groups around 1995. He was a Siksika warrior from the Blackfeet tribe of Montana. He was man whose reputation preceded him wherever he went in our community; no matter where you were at, there would be guys in your organization who had heard […]

Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE). This training has been pertinent for the former Army Green Berets Luke Denman and Airan Berry since their prompt capture on Monday, May 4. Despite the perceived circumstances, the politics, and the backstory, one thing is certain — these two brothers are having the worst days of their Earthly […]

SOFREP recently published a piece about the alleged spying by Colombia’s military against political opponents. Semana, the magazine that broke the news, reported that, “In those missions, using computer tools and software, [the military] carried out searches and massively and indiscriminately collected all the information possible about their objectives to prepare military intelligence reports.” Those […]

The country of Colombia has made vast strides in a relatively short amount of time going from an authoritarian type of rule to one of a civilian government. They nearly became a failed state due to the narcotraffickers that nearly toppled the country. But erasing decades of military autonomy is still going to take some […]

Colombia’s military has been shaken by spy allegations that reached all the way to the office of President Alvaro Uribe. On Friday, 11 senior officials were sacked and a senior general was forced to resign over an ongoing investigation into allegations that the Colombian military illegally spied on journalists,  politicians, opposition politicians, Supreme Court magistrates […]