Bogotá, Colombia – Santiago Escobar Jaramillo has traveled the world showcasing his acclaimed photographs But his heart has always been with his native Colombia. Jaramillo, who dedicates himself to ...

OVEJAS, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forced to flee her home to escape violence during Colombia's half-century civil war, farmer Diana Vitola has been waiting decades to receive a formal ...

MONTERIA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for victims of the country ...

Mongabay learned that the Superintendent of Notary and Registry has a record of empty lands being used illegally in seven Colombian departments. The illegally-used land is in the departments of Norte ...

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has been widely praised for his grand plan to return swathes of land to the country’s massive population of internal refugees, forced off their land by violence ...

CALOTO, Colombia — Indigenous Nasa children are gently splashed with water using a leafy branch — a ritual meant to protect them and symbolically “open the path” — before setting off with wooden signs ...

Bogota – Colombia has the dubious and sad distinction of seeing more of its citizens, many of them children playing in rural fields, killed or wounded by land mines per year than any other nation on ...

To control cocaine kingpins and violence in Colombia, the U.S. has spent $25 billion for military hardware and training in a quarter century. And the policy has hardly changed. But now, a new ...

This month, Maria Caro spent her first night at home in more than 15 years. The last time she was in Las Palmas, back in 1999, heavily armed paramilitary soldiers herded her and all the other women ...

MEDELLÍN, Colombia — The tropical forests stretch across this country like an unbroken green ribbon, linking the steamy Amazon with the chilly Andes — but in the country’s fragile peace, deforestation ...

VALLEDUPAR, Colombia — A Colombian law enacted in 2011 gave hope to peasant farmer Miguel Serna and hundreds of thousands of other displaced farmers like him that they would soon recover the land that ...