In Colombia's Catatumbo region, thousands have been displaced due to an escalation of violence by the ELN rebel group. President Gustavo Petro has suspended peace talks, challenging efforts to resolve ...

The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new ...

The Permanent Roundtable of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations (MPC) warned that an indefinite number of members of the ...

More than 32,000 people have fled to towns in northeast Colombia as they attempt to escape a sharp rise in fighting between ...

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

Fierce clashes between two guerrilla groups in the northwestern region of Catatumbo, Colombia, on Jan. 16 have not only ...

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

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. The clashes, involving ...

Iris Marín said the violence escalated last week in the Catatumbo region, displacing tens of thousands of people. Hundreds more remain confined to their homes and are unable to evacuate due to ...

The ELN rebel group is a deadly and powerful presence in the region More than 32,000 people have fled the northern Colombian region of Catatumbo where two rival rebel groups are engaged in a ...