Colombia

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

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

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

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’

The Mexican president announces that a protocol for working in international waters has been agreed upon with a view to stopping the attacks

Gustavo Petro has suspended the sending of confidential information to the Donald Trump administration, but Washington was already offering little cooperation to Bogotá and other key allies

Food shortages are worsening, and although a more cooperative social and scientific vision offers hope, if the crisis is comprehensive and global, the measures to counter it must be as well

With high-quality ingredients, sophisticated distillation processes and new ways to enjoy it, the Colombian spirit seeks a place on the global stage

The operation by the now-defunct M-19 guerrilla group in the heart of Bogotá, and the military response to it, left a hundred dead, a dozen missing, and a decimated judicial leadership