Reporting in Colombia's Catatumbo region is dangerous due to armed groups, drug trafficking, and violence.

The Colombian government needs to urgently put in place a justice and security policy to protect residents from armed groups and re-establish the rule of law in #Catatumbo. Read @hrw @astroehlein ...

The Catatumbo Lightning is the most reliable - and frequent - lightning show on earth, occurring about 300 days out of the year. Located over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, it's named for the ...

Armed groups vying for control of Colombia’s resource-rich Catatumbo region, near the Venezuelan border, are committing serious human rights violations, according to a report published on ...

More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian ...

The death toll from escalating violence between rival guerrilla groups in Colombia’s Catatumbo region has risen to 60, according to the country’s human rights office.

NATURAL PHENOMENA What is the ‘Catatumbo lightning’, the phenomenon that occurs in the same place every year Twenty-eight lightning bolts are produced per minute for nine hours and their ...

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 ...

One place in Venezuela, near the confluence of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracaibo, experiences lightning storms almost every day.

Megateo was one of the most wanted drug traffickers in Colombia. His death on October 2, 2015 was a major blow, but the people of Catatumbo have little reason to celebrate. Español. Português.