BOGOTA, Colombia — More than 300 people have fled Colombia’s volatile Catatumbo region to escape fighting by rebel groups, and have now sought shelter in Cúcuta, a city near the border with Venezuela that was already bracing for a possible influx of refugees.

Brazil and Colombia moved to shore up their borders with Venezuela as officials raised fears over a new flood of refugees following U.S. military action in the neighboring country. Roraima, the Brazilian state that serves as the main crossing point into the country,

Columbia has experienced a wave of Venezuelan migration - Fernando Vergara /AP “To speak of migration is to speak of destitution, street dwellers, [un]employment, and drug trafficking…We have been forced to bear the cost and have neither the funds ...

CÚCUTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of people crossed into Colombia on Saturday to buy food and medicine after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reopened a border between the countries that had been shut down for the past four months. Long lines of ...

Colombia will not close its border with Panama along the Darien Gap — the dense, dangerous jungle that has become a major route for migration toward the United States said Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo. The comments came as Jose Raul Mulino ...

Tension has spread to the Venezuela and Colombia border where many residents are concerned with US intervention.

LETICIA, Colombia — The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia's only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that's fueling a border dispute with neighboring Peru. Drought, sedimentation ...

Dina Bolaurte appears with her cabinet and military chiefs in Santa Rosa de Loreto [Photo: @presidenciaperu] The border conflict in Santa Rosa de Loreto, a remote Amazonian Island straddling the boundary between Colombia and Peru, has recently reignited ...

CUCUTA, Colombia/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Colombia and Brazil tightened border controls with Venezuela on Thursday as both nations grapple with a mounting influx of hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants fleeing a worsening economic crisis. In a visit to ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered the deployment of troops to the border with Venezuela, whose President Nicolas Maduro has been abducted by US forces.