The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighbouring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence in Colombia’s Catatumbo region that has left at least 80 ...

The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

However, it applies only to the rural Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, where the Colombian state has ... They’ve abandoned us,” Jaime Botero, an activist in the town of Tibu, told the ...

Officials said the attacks happened in several towns located in the Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela ... traveled to the northeast town of Cúcuta on Sunday where he held several ...

"There was a lot of shooting," Angarita told AFP in the town of Tibu, on the border with Venezuela, where she found refuge at ... launched a bloody attack last Thursday in the northeastern Catatumbo ...

Colombia -- The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence in Colombia’s Catatumbo region that has ...

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