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 ...

Colombian Army commander Luis Cardozo walks past what the military says are members of holdouts from the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who surrendered to the Army after ...

as guerilla factions launched a violent war to control the vital cocaine-producing Catatumbo region of northern Colombia. Petro, himself a former guerilla fighter from the M-19 movement ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president ... However, it applies only to the rural Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, where the Colombian state has struggled for decades ...

However, it applies only to the rural Catatumbo region near the border ... and holdouts from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Petro's conservative opponents have criticized ...

Social movements and community organizations demand peace as violence breaks out in the northeastern region of Colombia. Hundreds of more troops from the Colombian Army have been deployed to Catatumbo ...

On Jan. 16, the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN) launched an offensive in Colombia’s north-eastern region of Catatumbo against a group known as ...

Inhabitants of Norte de Santander flee the violence with ELN guerrilla. Photo: Screenshot/X The humanitarian catastrophe in Colombia’s Catatumbo region continues to escalate, with the Defensoría del ...

More than 32,000 people have fled to towns in northeast Colombia as they attempt to escape a sharp rise in fighting between militant factions, according to the country’s ombudsman. Iris Marín ...