Colombia

The city’s mayor Federico Gutiérrez announces the six-month suspension of sex work in the neighborhood El Poblado and limits operating hours of the bars and clubs in the area, in which he says sex trafficking is taking place

Colombia has demanded an apology and will expel diplomats after the Argentine president called Gustavo Petro a ‘terrorist murderer’ during an interview with CNN

President Gustavo Petro has opened the door to dialogue with the largest drug trafficking organization in the country, which presents itself as a ‘political-military organization’

A new report from the IACHR reveals that the departments where defenders are killed the most are the areas with the highest production of coca

Venezuelan, Peruvian, Haitian, Chinese, and Afghan families endure hunger, disease, and violence while they raise money to cross the rainforest and reach Panama, on the only land route that leads from South America to the United States

The region’s far-right leaders are waging a battle against the gains made by the feminist movement

Police are still searching for Ana María Knezevich, a wealthy 40-year-old who was separating from her Serbian husband. She went missing in the Spanish capital after sending two strange text messages to friends

A community living in Cachaca III, near Riohacha in Colombia, is being threatened by the sea, which is encroaching on their territory. On Thursday their case will be heard by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

The deaths of Roberto Vega Daza and two other men in Valencia are thought to be connected to a dispute between a Barranquilla crime family and a gang known as Los Costeños

The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia commander was one of the most feared warlords in the country and has accused heavyweights in the political and business world of having allied themselves with the paramilitary armies

Two years after the historic ruling that decriminalized abortion up until the 24th week of pregnancy, a new book narrates the quiet battles that were waged to achieve victory

State Department adviser Richard Visek spoke on the third day of hearings at the court into a request by the General Assembly for a non-binding advisory opinion on the legality of Israel’s policies in the occupied territories

La Inmaculada — a criminal group that has been operating for more than a decade — has unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence in the city of Tuluá, which reached its peak over the past week. Hundreds of police officers and soldiers have been deployed to the municipality

The country now has more motorcycles than cars, posing a growing public health issue

The pagan festival arrived in Latin America during European colonization. It ultimately merged with local and African traditions, giving rise to very diverse celebrations

The Colombian capital will become the first city in Latin America to have a permanent envoy from the largest police department in the U.S.

At least a dozen Colombian publications republished a figure that had allegedly come from the city’s Chamber of Commerce — which has since disavowed the number

Andrés López — who began writing while imprisoned — is putting the finishing touches on a book about Colombia’s Nairo Quintana. He previously wrote a book about another countryman, Rigo Urán, who won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics for the road race, one of the main cycling events

Researchers concluded that these types of extreme weather events could occur up to once every 15 years if the Earth’s temperature continues to rise

Valeria Casillas faces a bureaucratic labyrinth in both countries, while her attacker, a U.S. citizen, remains at large and continues to harass her

Authorities are investigating whether $125,000 that the country’s Federation of Education Workers (Fecode) donated to Colombia Humana, the president’s party, were unlawfully used in his 2022 presidential campaign

Multiple experts agree that extreme aridity and lack of rainfall have combined to cause over 500 forest fires so far this year. They warn that these conditions will continue until April

The Israeli prime minister has sent a letter to Gustavo Petro asking him to support the efforts to free the 136 people held captive by the Islamic group

The ‘Narcos’ team takes on the life of ‘the queen of cocaine’ in a six-episode Netflix production

In an upcoming book, the released German-Colombian former drug lord addresses dirty money in political campaigns, the pacts made between the Medellín Cartel and the guerrillas, as well as the complicity of the governments of Nicaragua, Cuba and Panama in the drug trade