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

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

Colombia's record-high cocaine production is fueling instability, corruption, and violence, threatening the nation's economy ...

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

For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.

Colombia remains the world's leading producer of cocaine, despite decades of war against the cartels. In Tampa federal court Tuesday, Ambuila showed no emotion as U.S. District Court Judge ...

Five decades of war among leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, drug lords and the government in Colombia have left ...

But it left a vacuum increasingly filled by armed gangs that have shaken Colombia with a violent, cocaine-fueled conflict raging across several provinces of the country where the government has ...