Gustavo Petro

The government is working on a three-phase plan to address a potential humanitarian emergency

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the Colombian president acknowledges that he feared being captured like Maduro, but believes that the call with the tycoon ‘froze’ the threat

The US president has invited his Colombian counterpart to the White House and said it was a ‘great honor’ to speak to him after months of verbal attacks

The Colombian president welcomed the direct conversation between ideological adversaries

The humanitarian crisis caused by the guerrilla offensive in the Catatumbo border region is still far from being resolved

Leaders and citizens speak out following Washington’s military aggression against the Latin American country

Trump says Washington will control Venezuela until there is ‘a safe transition,’ claiming opposition leader María Corina Machado lacks the ‘support or respect’ to assume power

The Colombian president indicates that the bombing occurred at a factory in Maracaibo where the guerrillas supposedly operate, but the company denies being attacked and the location does not correspond with the information from the White House

A drug trafficker’s megalomaniac dream continues to be an unsolved problem for Colombia

The remains of hundreds of soldiers have yet to be returned to the country, and many claim they have not received the compensation promised by Kyiv

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms that the Colombian group has been added to the list of drug cartels being targeted by the Trump administration

The operation took place in the eastern Pacific, near Colombia

The leaders of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia have responded in very different ways to the return of the far right to the South American country, which held a runoff vote on Sunday

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

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 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