Colombian president aims to reduce drug violence and weaken rebels by paying farmers to switch crops
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced a plan Monday to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel ...
InSight Crime4d
Major Criminal Powers Dispute Key Corridors in Colombia
The balance of power in Colombia’s criminal underworld is in flux, as turbulent shakeups see major criminal players competing ...
The New York Times20d
How Venezuela Helps Fuel the Violence in Colombia
After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a generation, setting off troubling regional tensions. After finding ...
What is Tren de Aragua? How the Venezuelan gang started − and why US policies may only make it stronger
According to investigative journalists and a handful of academic studies, Tren de Aragua was initially founded by Hector “El ...
The Daily Free Press3d
From Boston to Borderlands: Travel journalist Shandra Back’s time at Venezuela-Colombia border reporting on displacement
Back, a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in political science, initially approached the CFD with the idea of ...
Associated Press10d
Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Luciane Mengual, 22, an Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community, ...
They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning
They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama ...
Locked in a Jungle Camp, Migrants Deported to Panama Face Uncertain Future
More than 100 asylum seekers from around the world sent to Panama from the United States have no sense how long they will be ...
ELN rebels launch 3-day armed strike in Colombia’s northwest as violence in rural areas escalates
Businesses are shuttered and public transport is at a standstill in Colombia’s Choco department, as rebels from the National ...
Colombia's Petro to name Edwin Palma as new energy minister, source says
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro will name unionist and former vice-minister of labor Edwin Palma as the country's new ...
Turned away at the U.S. border, migrants make a dangerous trek in reverse
Trump’s hard-line immigration policies have sparked a reverse migration wave, with migrants traveling south through Panama ...
Spurned by the US, some migrants are returning to South America on boat
A growing number of Latin American migrants who have given up hope of reaching the United States are returning to their home ...