Colombia

A survey found that 55% of Colombians would like to have a president like the one in El Salvador; meanwhile, some local candidates are promising to import his rigid security model

Colombia’s retired and reserve military are a powerful political force and tend toward conservatism, leaving the president with balancing act in a country that has not seen a coup since 1953

Former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso has assured Colombian authorities that the remains of hundreds of bodies – disappeared during the country’s internal armed conflict – can be found along the border with Venezuela

Traditional Afro and indigenous medicine is nothing new. It is part of national and international medical standards, and it is practiced daily in cities like Bogotá

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the president of Colombia urged citizens to ‘express themselves’ to defend his government’s reforms and prevent these from being blocked by ‘very privileged groups’

The leftist leader has tired of negotiating with the traditional conservative parties over his reform plans and intends to mobilize his support base after a Cabinet reshuffle

‘The danger here is falling ash and rock,’ say those who have grown up in the shadow of the Nevado del Ruiz

An international summit organized by President Gustavo Petro shows how the South American country’s foreign policy has drastically changed in recent months

He had crossed the border into the country to try to meet with some participants at Tuesday’s international conference to discuss Venezuela’s political crisis

The Venezuelan opposition leader says he wants to meet with international delegations gathering in Colombia for a conference focused on his country’s political crisis

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of extraditing Nancy Mestre’s murderer to face justice in Colombia, ending her father’s decades long search for justice

The former guerilla met with the U.S. president to discuss the war on drugs, conserving the Amazon and the situation in Venezuela

Growing political, security and contracting risks in Colombia are affecting Chinese companies’ perception of the country, a new report warns

Sunday’s riots at a football stadium in Medellín came after months of strife between team executives and fans

The leader of the FARC dissidents – who was once presumed dead – is currently negotiating with the government of President Gustavo Petro

A local journalist revealed environmental damage in Colombia. Then, his stories were silenced. Thirty journalists, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, took over his investigations and are exposing the damning methods of the companies he was investigating

In Colombia, more than 10,000 individuals are currently under UNP protection, including 187 journalists, and nearly 50,000 are protected collectively

Six months after the assassination of Colombian journalist Rafael Moreno, 30 journalists, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, pursued his investigations into allegations of wide-scale corruption in the province of Córdoba, revealing a system of cronyism in public works contracts potentially to the tune of several million dollars

That would represent a huge increase from the 250,000 migrants estimated to have crossed the roadless, jungle-clad route in 2022

During the last few decades of the 20th century, most of the people who vanished between the two countries were Colombians, looking for better lives in wealthy Venezuela. The migration has reversed course, but people are still dying without a trace

General Henry Sanabria claimed to have seen Satan himself and was an outspoken critic of contraception, homosexuality and the rights of women

Violence and organized crime are on the rise across the region, upending government plans and putting citizens on alert

A new bill is proposing that the government recognize ‘the existence of forced internal displacement due to causes associated with climate change and environmental degradation’

The U.S. Department of Justice has built a case against a group of traffickers who transported drugs in small boats along the Pacific, making stops in Mexico and Central America