Colombia

It’s not just cocaine production that is bad for the environment. The war on drugs has an even greater impact on Colombian ecosystems

The vice president of Luminate talks about the crisis of representation, legitimacy and information affecting democracy in the region, but expresses optimism for the future

The Colombian singer, who coaches children on ‘La Voz Kids,’ talks to EL PAÍS about the importance of mental health, his connection to God and why he’s a big exhibitionist

Chinese are now the fourth-largest nationality crossing the dangerous jungle route through Panama. The number of Afghans, Indians and Bangladeshis is also increasing

The bill that sought to regulate the purchase, sale and distribution of marijuana did not obtain enough votes in the upper house

The Colombian is one of the authors of a recent study published in ‘Nature’ that warns that we have exceeded seven of the eight variables that they evaluated for maintaining a healthy and just planet

EL PAÍS speaks with the indigenous volunteers who located the minors, a soldier who rappelled into the forest to find them and the commander leading the search effort about the trials of the 40-day mission

Colombia’s political crisis is growing, as questions surround the president’s former chief-of-staff and ambassador to Venezuela in a case involving wiretaps and a dead member of Petro’s security detail

While over 166,000 migrants have risked their lives in the jungle between Colombia and Panama so far in 2023, a German company offers ‘survival’ trips for social media influencers who have emergency helicopter evacuation at their disposal

The executive director of the Artemisas Foundation talks about equality, women’s representation in elected office and the political and economic violence suffered by women leaders in her country

One out of every 74 people in the world have been forced to leave their homes due to violence, persecution and natural disasters, according to UNHCR

Feminist organizations are concerned about how a recent judgment may undermine reproductive rights in the country

Following the ceasefire agreement in Havana with the country’s last armed rebels, President Gustavo Petro urged the U.S. to remove the Caribbean island from its state sponsors of terrorism list

Lesly, the eldest of the four siblings, used several objects she found in the plane wreckage to improvise a shelter for herself, Soleiny, Tien and Cristin

Since 2018, at least 258 people have died or disappeared while crossing the perilous sliver of land that connects Colombia and Panama. This year alone, more than 127,000 migrants have trekked through the dangerous terrain. With no time to mourn after losing loved ones to the jungle, survivors focus on the next step

Since the four children were rescued from the Amazon jungle, the operation has shifted its focus to finding a six-year-old Belgian shepherd who went missing during the mission

The father of the infants, Manuel Ranoque, has shared details of their 40-day ordeal in the Amazon, and warned that FARC dissidents have threatened to kill him

According to authorities, the four minors only have bites and skin lesions despite surviving a plane crash and wandering the jungle for 40 days

The eldest of the siblings looked after the others, and kept them alive thanks to what she had learned from growing up in the rainforest

While local communities brought their knowledge of the Amazon jungle to the search, the military contributed technology, food kits that they dropped from aircraft and a variety of techniques to help locate the minors

‘Today they are the children of peace and the children of Colombia”, said President Gustavo Petro, underscoring that the fact they were from an indigenous family helped them navigate the surrounding dangers

The Cuba agreement, fully effective as of August, is the first major achievement of total peace, Gustavo Petro’s flagship policy

Revelations about Gustavo Petro’s former chief of staff Laura Sarabia highlight the pitfalls of unrestrained intelligence services, empowered to ignore the rights and freedoms of citizens

The former Ecuadorian president is not ruling out convening a Constituent Assembly to invalidate the 2018 referendum that prevents him from running for reelection

U.N. Special Rapporteur Michel Forst talks to EL PAÍS about his effort to protect environmentalists, who he says are facing rising attacks across the world