Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a powerful rebel group from the field.

Explore the unexpected connections between Colombian President Gustavo Petro, infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, and former US President Donald Trump. This article delves into a unique narrative of political defiance and magic realism.

Petro, who is up for reelection in 2026, donned the presidential sash with the intention of bringing peace to Colombia at the negotiating table. His plans in ruins, and having failed to bring peace to the country as a diplomat, he may well end his turn attempting to bring peace as a general.

Omar Ambuila's daughter posted photos of herself carrying designer handbags, taking luxury vacations to Paris and driving a $330,000 Lamborghini.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the ELN, the country’s largest guerilla group, of committing ‘war crimes’ and declared on social media, “The ELN shows no willingness to make peace”

Special forces deployed to province engulfed in a war between armed groups over control of cocaine province. Dozens of civilians have been killed and thousands forced to flee.

Colombian authorities seized 8.2 tons of cocaine at a Pacific port, one of the largest seizures ever made in the country, President Gustavo Petro announced on Wednesday.

Colombia's government is reactivating arrest orders for the top leadership of the nation's largest rebel group.

The U.S. State Department also said that it would stop issuing visas to Colombian travelers until deportation flights resumed. Colombia received more than 120 deportation flights last year, but those were charter flights operated by U.S. government contractors.

Tens of thousands of refugees are fleeing one of Colombia’s biggest cocaine-producing regions to escape the most intense outbreak of violence since a 2016 peace deal.Most Read from BloombergHow Sanctu

cocaine’s base plant. President Gustavo Petro took office in 2022 pledging to expand peace to other armed groups through a policy called “total peace," which has failed to disarm any of the ...

The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their barracks for fear of snipers.