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

The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...

A series of attacks against civilians has forced Colombia's government to break off peace talks with one of Colombia’s ...

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

Located in the north-east of Colombia, in the Norte de Santander department, the Catatumbo region stretches between the Eastern Andes and the vicinities of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. This is a ...

Social movements and community organizations demand peace as violence breaks out in the northeastern region of Colombia.

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 ...

However, it applies only to the rural Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, where the Colombian state has ... They ...

With 80 people killed and 40,000 displaced by violence wrought by the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) militia's fight with rival armed groups over drug trafficking territory in northeastern ...

The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighbouring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence in Colombia’s Catatumbo region that has left at least 80 ...

However, it applies only to the rural Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, where the Colombian ... an activist in the town of Tibu, told The Associated Press. Earlier this week Petro ...