How Cheap Drones Are Fueling Colombia’s War | WSJ
June 17, 2026
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as posted by the channelCúcuta, COLOMBIA – Cocaine-funded militias are running a deadly drone war across Colombia, terrorizing civilians and authorities.
Colombia is now the epicenter of unmanned aerial vehicle warfare in the Americas. Weaponised drone attacks by armed groups here now outnumber those anywhere else in the region, including Mexico, where criminal groups were first recorded using the weapons in 2021, according to the conflict monitoring group ACLED.
WSJ spoke with a mother who was injured in what she says was a drone strike that accidentally hit her home and went inside a state-run drone factory, where authorities are scrambling to advance their technology to hit back at criminal armed groups.
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