Many blame Petro for the extreme levels of violence in Colombia in 2025, due to clashes among criminal groups. But the story dates back years.

Colombia’s Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez has withdrawn a criminal complaint alleging InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott defamed her character in a series about a drug trafficker. The ...

For as long as many people remember Colombia has been a violence riven country that has been a major hub in the global cocaine trade. What many people do not realize is that Colombia is one of Latin ...

FILE PHOTO: Soldiers stand guard on the Ecuadoran side of a border crossing with Colombia, in Tufino, Ecuador, after Ecuador's government announced the closure of its borders from Sunday to all ...

Heaving a wooden cart stacked with sheaths of corn and bunches of plantains, 66-year-old Everlides Almanza trundled through the dusty streets of Turbaco as she had done every day for 18 years. Scrawny ...

A bill to legalize cannabis in Colombia passed in the Senate on Tuesday. The primary focus of ending the war on cannabis is directly tied to halting organized crime, and illicit activities and ...

BOGOTA, Dec 5 - Colombia and the Clan del Golfo crime gang have agreed at negotiations in Qatar that combatants from the group will gradually gather in three defined areas from March 1, part of ...

BOGOTÁ — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem landed in Colombia on Thursday as part of a tour of three Latin American nations to discuss immigration, crime and deportation. Her trip comes ...

A new law in Colombia aims to address widespread impunity in cases of environmental crime and curb escalating rates of deforestation. The legislation, which took effect last August, comes at a time ...

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and ...

BOGOTA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The armed forces of Colombia and Ecuador on Wednesday signed an agreement to implement a plan to contain drug trafficking and organized crime on their shared border, ...