ELN rebels attacked an army barracks in Arauca and President Manuel Santos pledged to strike back hard—dashing hopes for a peace dialogue with Colombia's second guerilla group.
Indigenous and Black communities in Colombia’s Chocó department filed a lawsuit, claiming 37 of their children died after drinking water contaminated by nearby mining operations.
The DEA claims that Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah is laundering money for the "Oficina de Envigado," successor organization to Colombia's legendary Medellín Cartel.
Colombia's government says it hopes to extend the peace process to the ELN guerillas—and claims to have identified the remains of their revered founder, Camilo Torres.
President Juan Manuel Santos meets at the White House with Barack Obama to mark 15 years since the initiation of the Plan Colombia—and discuss a "post-conflict" aid package.
Authorities in Bolivia announced the arrest of Felipe Molina AKA "El Killer"—long wanted in the 1980 "disappearance" and probable assassination of socialist leader Marcelo Quiroga.
Water shortages and wildfires are reported across Colombia, while Bolivia's second largest lake has completely evaporated amid this year's devastating El Niño phenomenon.
Two former Colombian army colonels received long prison terms for extrajudicial executions of peasants and workers falsely reported as guerilla battlefield deaths.
As the war between the Colombian state and the FARC guerillas winds down, conflict is escalating with right-wing paramilitaries in the north, leaving hundreds displaced.
Ecuador's National Assembly approved a Law on Rural Lands and Ancestral Territories—hailed as a new agrarian reform but spurned by indigenous dissidents as insufficient.
Ecuador will pay $1 billion to US oil giant Occidental following a settlement in a case over cancellation of a massive contract in the Amazon basin.
Colombian prosecutors say they will seek to charge some 1,500 civilians with conflict-related crimes allegedly committed by guerilla groups like the FARC as part of any peace deal.
