Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, a former finance minister who came close to winning the 2014 election, was charged with fraud, illicit enrichment and falsification of documents
Mothers, sisters and wives of at least 35 unjustly detained people in El Salvador ask the government of Gustavo Petro to help them guarantee the human rights of their relatives
Actors Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello are set to reprise their roles in the most successful ever TV soap opera
Researchers from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and the United States have studied the specimens that live up to 200 feet deep in the iconic basin. Photos of 109 species have been compiled in a book
Buenaventura’s spike in homicides has prompted proposals to militarize the area while the High Commissioner for Peace plans new outreach efforts with criminal gangs
The governor of Buenaventura, the country’s main seaport, has asked authorities to send in the army to protect the population from armed gangs engaged in turf wars
The family disappeared on Monday while traveling through the department of Arauca
Over 300 peace signatories and their families have left Vista Hermosa after being threatened by dissidents. Two members of the community were murdered in May
The organization, which is involved in crimes such as human trafficking, sexual exploitation and drug trafficking, is extending its tentacles in eight countries in the region
The president, who began his mandate in August 2022 with 56% support, is trying to regain the initiative after several crises that have damaged his popularity
Former uniformed officers admitted to having ultimate responsibility for 49 ‘false positives,’ and hiding the bodies in a cemetery so that the victims’ families could not find them
The result of a survey reveals that 63% of respondents in these Latin American countries agree that LGBTQ+ people should run for and hold public office
Producers from around the world are negotiating substantial contracts with the family’s lawyers to bring the gripping tale of survival to the screen
Pedro Sánchez, the special forces general who led the search, never lost hope of finding them alive in the Amazon
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
Shakira landed her plane to give Piqué a kiss, while the rest of us were left Googling which recycling bin the tuna can should go in
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 four indigenous minors who survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle have given us all a life lesson and at the same time revealed how incapable urban society is of understanding other world views and ways of living and letting live
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
