Social movements and community organizations demand peace as violence breaks out in the northeastern region of Colombia.

As residents fled for their lives, the army deployed some 5,000 troops to the cocaine-growing Catatumbo region at the center of a fast-escalating territorial war. The National Liberation Army (ELN) ...

The death toll from attacks by a rebel group in Colombia's Catatumbo region has risen to 60, the country's human rights office has said. Rival factions have been vying for control of the cocaine ...

Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering ...

The conflict in the rural Catatumbo region, where the Colombian state has struggled for decades to gain a foothold, has left at least 80 people dead and 40,000 others displaced over the past 10 ...

Since 16 January armed violence has erupted in the Catatumbo region (north-east Colombia) due to confrontations between the armed groups National Liberation Army (ELN in Spanish) and General Staff of ...