For 35 years, fisherman Eusebio Webster has been fighting to protect these critically endangered turtles from commercial trade on Colombia’s Caribbean islands
The remains of hundreds of soldiers have yet to be returned to the country, and many claim they have not received the compensation promised by Kyiv
The Venezuelan diaspora in the region generates more than $10.6 billion, according to the IOM, but 30% still live without legal status
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms that the Colombian group has been added to the list of drug cartels being targeted by the Trump administration
The operation took place in the eastern Pacific, near Colombia
Thousands of beneficiaries from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras will have to leave the country in the coming weeks
Security experts detect a greater reach in the arms war of organized crime groups with the use of kamikaze-type drones and signal jammers against attacks from rivals
Brayan Palencia was one of more than 200 migrants sent by the United States to Nayib Bukele’s mega-prison CECOT for alleged links to criminal gangs
Following a meeting between the leftist presidential candidate and a business association, supporters of former president Alvaro Uribe are urging the private sector to abandon its traditional caution
Mexican psychologist Tanya Duarte, Argentine teacher Miriam Gomes, and Bolivian engineer Juan Carlos Ballivián share their firsthand accounts of what it is like to live in countries that are not traditionally associated with African heritage
In the early 2000s, a group of Afro-Colombians went to Washington to pressure their president, who was negotiating a free trade agreement. They wanted to ensure that Black people would be appointed to the Colombian government. Now, Black women’s collectives are paving the way for political inclusion in Latin America
A study compared civil service salary caps in 11 countries as Congress debates public administration reform in a nation with particularly high social inequality
The former vice president of Colombia, who is a leading security experts in Latin America, analyzes the critical moment the region is facing and its key challenges
The South American country has become the seventh nation to try to stop the group, which has been charged with sexual abuse and trafficking
As drug production and trafficking increase across the continent, criminal groups of all sizes are diversifying their operations and increasing their firepower. Governments, meanwhile, stumble between hard-line policies and paralysis
Schedule I of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs limits the possibility of scientific research and the exploration of alternative uses
The petition was sent to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and is the first of its kind in connection with attacks against alleged drug-running boats
The Colombian president responded with belligerence to the US leader’s threat to attack the South American country over drug trafficking
A recent study found that these endangered areas are home to up to 46% of the global populations of 40 species that nest in North America but spend most of the year further south
Recently acquitted of all charges in the ‘trial of the century’ that pitted him against the leftist senator Iván Cepeda, the right-wing former president now loses the momentum he had gained as a new election campaign gets underway
The recent deaths of 15 forcibly recruited minors in military operations have sparked an unprecedented crisis for the Colombian president
A journey to the world’s third largest exporter of the flowers reveals long working hours, pesticide exposure, illness and oftentimes-dismal wages for laborers
Leaders on both the left and right are criticizing forced recruitment of children by illegal groups more harshly than the state’s actions
The Treasury Department has sanctioned the alleged criminal leader, a Canadian national, and his support network after authorities linked him to the Sinaloa Cartel
The president rejects calls to suspend military action against armed groups, saying it would be like helping them recruit more children
An EL PAÍS exclusive reveals the hidden figure that symbolizes the failure of the world’s largest producer to accurately measure its own production
Asked whether such a move would only take place with prior permission from Mexican authorities, Trump said he ‘wouldn’t answer that question’ and that Mexico ‘knows how I stand’
