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
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
Leaders on both the left and right are criticizing forced recruitment of children by illegal groups more harshly than the state’s actions
Extremist commentators and Donald Trump himself are spreading misinformation and exaggerations about the protests to bolster justifications for a direct attack on the cartels
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
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
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
Figures from the global far right, the libertarian movement, evangelical churches, and retired military officers took the stage at an event that drew 15,000 people
The senator of Colombian descent and the representative from Florida are the most visible faces of the effort to undermine Colombia’s political left ahead of presidential elections
Bogotá’s intelligence service is targeting the New Drug Trafficking Board amid the crisis with Washington. Gustavo Petro claims this organization wants to assassinate him
If the president is serious about addressing organized crime and protecting American lives, he needs to look beyond military and defensive tools
The government of Gustavo Petro has granted garment manufacturers’ request to remove tariffs on imported raw materials, while cotton producers warn that the move will devastate their sector: ‘We are facing extinction’
The Treasury’s accusations put those involved at risk of losing their accounts in the country due to the pressure the banks face over to their ties to the US and international financial system
It is unlikely that all the boats attacked by the United States belong to artisanal fishermen, says an official with the Colombian Navy
The veteran senator doubled Carolina Corcho’s lead at a vote organized by the Historic Pact, a center-left to far-left coalition
The Pentagon’s announcement comes after the 10th extrajudicial attack against an alleged drug-running boat
Jeison Obando Pérez is recovering in a Bogotá hospital from injuries he sustained in the attack, and will likely be released despite US demands for his arrest
The US president calls the Colombian leader a ‘thug’ and a ‘bad guy,’ and Petro announces legal action for slander
President Gustavo Petro suspects that at least one of the US attacks in the Caribbean occurred in Colombian waters
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Colombian president urges restraint from Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro after their clash on Sunday
The South American nation is anxiously waiting to see if Donald Trump will impose new tariffs, as he has threatened to do over his clashes with the Colombian president
Gustavo Petro’s government orders the return of Daniel García-Peña to Bogotá, following the recent clash with the Trump administration
The story of the co-founder of the criminal gang, who has been imprisoned in Bogotá since June 2024, reveals how he turned Colombia into the group’s operational hub and financial refuge