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

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

Colombia’s government on Saturday announced a roughly $700,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of ...

The children of northeastern Colombia have a message for guerrillas blamed for the country's worst violence in over a decade ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a ...

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 ...

The toll brought to 54 the total number of confirmed deaths from fighting in the cocaine-growing Catatumbo region ... northeastern border with Venezuela. Analysts say the spasm of violence ...

Both the ELN and FARC-EMC have long fought for control over this drug-rich area, but recent violence marks a significant ...

Soldiers patrol a road in Tibu in Colombia's northeastern Catatumbo region ... Colombia's coca crop and is located along the border with Venezuela. The ELN, which has an estimated 6,000 fighters ...

For Caracas residents, the Guaire River is synonymous with excrement ... who runs the Taller H20+Ccs at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. “If there's no water, there's no life.

At least 80 civilians have been killed amid a surge in rebel violence in the Catatumbo region.