NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben speaks to reporter Jorge Valencia about banana brand Chiquita being found liable in US courts for deaths during the... Why banana brand Chiquita was found liable for deaths ...

A Truth Commission has presented its final report on Colombia's armed conflict, urging the government, military and rebel groups that are still fighting in the countryside to recognize the suffering ...

In what prosecutors called a “landmark ruling in the fight for human rights,” a U.S. jury in Miami has found banana giant Chiquita Brands International liable for the deaths of Colombian civilians due ...

In Putumayo, Colombia, an unusual partnership is helping to turn former battlefields into farmland and protect one of the most complex ecosystems in the world. In this region bordering Ecuador and ...

In 2018, Alex Diamond, a sociology PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, moved to rural Colombia to study the peace process, a protracted effort to end a decades-long armed conflict ...

For the past five decades, conflict in Colombia between its government, paramilitaries, and FARC rebels hiding out in the jungle have resulted in the deaths of an estimated 220,000 Colombians. Though ...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates of sending Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces against the military in the country’s civil war. The ...

Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes ...

Colombia’s government and the country’s biggest guerrilla army are further along in peace talks than ever before. Now that they’ve settled on a timetable for actually accomplishing results, the ...