Located on Colombia’s border with Venezuela, the Catatumbo region has around 300,000 residents and produces 15% of Colombia’s coca crop. The FARC-EMC and the ELN have long battled for control ...

At least 70 leaders of Catatumbo demanded Wednesday in Bogota solutions to the Colombian government for the guerrilla violence that plagues the region bordering Venezuela and in just over two weeks ...

Colombia and Venezuela launched a joint operation to counter guerrilla groups that are fighting in the mountainous northeastern Catatumbo region. The violence broke out after the National Liberation ...

“I have been in dialogue with the holder of the presidency of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, to close the illegal (border) crossings, especially in the Catatumbo River (…) A bilateral action plan ...

TRES BOCAS, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

Credit: AP/Mario Caicedo Located on Colombia’s border with Venezuela, the Catatumbo region has around 300,000 residents and produces 15% of Colombia’s coca crop. The FARC-EMC holdout group and ...

At least 80 people are dead and more than 18,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce ...

groups have long battled for control of the coca-rich mountainous northeastern Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, but respected a truce until recently. However, fighting broke out ...

Colombia called on neighboring Venezuela Thursday to help tackle guerrillas ... to contain violence in the mountainous northeastern Catatumbo region, where a 5,800-strong leftist militia has ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela that has been wracked in recent days by ...