The notorious "Popeye," personal hitman for late kingpin Pablo Escobar, was freed from prison—but is is receiving official protection from the Colombian government.
Colombia's top brass held their first meeting with FARC leaders at peace talks in Havana—as Panamanian authorities claimed interception of a massive FARC cocaine shipment.
The slaying of a teacher and community leader at an indigenous village marks the sixth murder of a teacher in Colombia this year, according to the education workers' union.
Latin American governments continued their diplomatic protests against Israel's operations in Gaza, but now the protests aren't just from left and center-left leaders.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) claims coca cultivation has been brought to historic lows in Colombia and Bolivia, while Peru has regained the title of top producer.
Workers from the Sepecol security firm blocked the rail line leading to the mammoth Cerrejón coal mine in northeastern Colombia for seven days over a contract dispute.
In the ongoing peace talks in Havana, Colombia's government and the FARC rebels agreed to a truth commission to addresses the deaths of thousands in five decades of conflict.
Colombia's government and the FARC guerillas announced an agreement, entitled "Solution to the Problem of Illicit Drugs," in which they pledge to work together agianst the narco trade.
Two leftist parties in Colombia, the Patriotic March and Patriotic Union, are supporting the re-election bid of President Juan Manuel Santos, citing his dialogue with the FARC rebels.
Colombian crude production sank to a 20-month low of 935,000 barrels per day as guerilla attacks and protests by impacted indigenous communities curbed output.
A new report counts 412 hydro-electric dams to be built across the Amazon basin and its headwaters, portending the “end of free-flowing rivers” and potential “ecosystem collapse.”
An unknown number of miners—perhaps as many as 40—were buried alive as an illegal gold mine collapsed at El Palmar, in Colombia's southern region of Cauca.
