Violence by criminal gangs battling over drug trafficking areas has displaced more than 800 people in northwestern Colombia, the United Nations said... READ MORE›
Colombia's former FARC Marxist rebel group has temporarily suspended its campaign for upcoming parliamentary elections due to security threats to its candidates... READ MORE›
Brazil has received around 40,000 Venezuelans in its northernmost state, Roraima... READ MORE›
Colombia migration authorities say there are an estimated 600,000 Venezuelans currently in Colombia -- double the number six months ago... READ MORE›
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shake hands during a joint news conference in Bogota, Colombia February 6, 2018... READ MORE›
TODAY Paying the piper in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has officially ended its anti-corruption blitz after extracting more than 130 billion from some of its richest citizens... READ MORE›
Rodrigo Londono is the first presidential candidate of a new political party formed by FARC's members in Colombia... READ MORE›
Two ex-combatants were recently shot to death while campaigning for a FARC congressional candidate in northwestern Colombia... READ MORE›
Colombia has myriad crime gangs, some which operate across large swaths of rural territory and others in major cities... READ MORE›
Colombia on Wednesday evicted over 200 homeless Venezuelans who had been sleeping in a sports field in its border town of Cucuta, highlighting growing unea... READ MORE›
Colombia peace Former Farc rebels build hotel to recreate guerrilla life... READ MORE›
Scores of crime gangs and right-wing paramilitary groups jostle with the dissident FARC for control of the drug trafficking routes to the Pacific... READ MORE›
In Latin America, John Kelly trained for a job serving Trump... READ MORE›
As the Farc demobilised, deforestation soared by 44 percent in 2016 with a rush of land-grabbing to plant coca and clear land for cattle ranches... READ MORE›
More than 100 human rights defenders have been killed in Colombia this year, according to the United Nations, which urged more accountability and better protections... READ MORE›
Colombian authorities are seeking to re-arrest a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar... READ MORE›
People help carry an injured woman after mudslides following heavy rains, in Mocoa, Colombia... READ MORE›
The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday against Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami... READ MORE›
Minutes before he took his last breath, Marcos Danilo spoke to his wife from a hospital bed in Medellin, Colombia, according to multiple Brazilian news outlets... READ MORE›
President Juan Manuel Santos has said there won't be a second referendum... READ MORE›
The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to call for the world to rethink the war on drugs... READ MORE›
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, who flew to Mocoa on Saturday to oversee rescue efforts, said at least 154 people were confirmed dead... READ MORE›
The Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, arrived in Mocoa on Sunday to survey the crisis... READ MORE›
Article one of the peace accord guarantees agrarian reform and states that land taken during the conflict will be given back to its rightful owners... READ MORE›
Nidia Gongora the Afro-Colombian singer confronting macho music culture... READ MORE›
At least six people died in the incident which occurred near the town of Guatape, roughly 45 kilometers 28 miles east of Medellin, one of Colombia's biggest cities... READ MORE›
Most of the Colombian cocaine is smuggled through Mexico by the country's powerful drug cartels... READ MORE›
Colombia's security forces say they are searching for hundreds of missing people after heavy mudslides left at least 254 dead... READ MORE›
Brazilian government services are buckling under the weight of the sudden influx of Venezuelan migrants... READ MORE›
In Latin America, the better-coffee trend is percolating well beyond Colombia's borders... READ MORE›
The plane slammed into a mountainside near the Colombian city of Medellin late on Monday... READ MORE›
Gratitude to Congress for its historic support of Colombians' hope for peace, Santos tweeted after the vote in the lower house... READ MORE›
Emotional pain resonated across the region over the loss of much of the Chapecoense soccer team from southern Brazil... READ MORE›
Nobel Peace Prizewinner, President Juan Manuel Santos, talks to Isabelle Kumar about why bringing peace does not always bring popularity at the polls... READ MORE›
Her goal was to travel to Jordan via Spain, but she ran out of money in the southern Colombian city of Cali... READ MORE›
The Avianca co-pilot said the air traffic controller's voice broke and the crew of the Avianca plane began to cry... READ MORE›
Since December, more than 90 people have died in neighboring Peru which has been lashed by torrential rains sparked by the so-called Coastal El Nino phenomenon... READ MORE›
The mudslides slammed Mocoa on Friday after days of torrential rain in the Amazon basin area town of 40,000... READ MORE›
Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were on board a plane carrying 81 people that crashed in Colombia killing 76 people, police said on Tuesday... READ MORE›
Search and rescue teams dig through mud after devastating landslides triggered by heavy rains kill more than 200... READ MORE›
Distraught fans gathered around the team's Conda stadium in Chapeco, a city of about 200,000 people in southern Brazil... READ MORE›
Colombian authorities acknowledge that at least 58 community leaders and social activists were assassinated in 2016... READ MORE›
At 05 00 in the morning, a steady stream of Venezuelans heads into Colombia... READ MORE›
Colombian officials say evidence is growing that a plane crashed near Medellin because it ran out of fuel... READ MORE›
Jose Albeiro Vargas last saw his grandson the night fierce rain unleashed havoc on this small city surrounded by rivers and mountains in southern Colombia... READ MORE›
They are among the 314 still missing, a figure provided by President Juan Manuel Santos in a national speech on Wednesday... READ MORE›
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