The Mexican drug cartel’s recent turf war over trafficking routes has killed dozens of people and displaced tens of thousands ...

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

Gustavo Aníbal Giraldo, third in command of the armed group, is accused of being the architect of the attacks in Catatumbo, ...

Petro, himself a former leftist guerrilla, has tried for years to bring the ELN and other groups to the negotiating table. After a short-lived ceasefire and on-again-off-again talks, the latest ELN ...

The ELN has been clashing in Catatumbo with former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a guerrilla group that disbanded after signing a peace deal in 2016 with Colombia ...

BOGOTA, Feb 8, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday that the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel was the "head of the ELN" guerrilla group whose recent turf war over trafficking ...

Petro, who was a member of a guerrilla group during his youth, initiated peace talks with the ELN in 2022, after promising in his presidential campaign that he could get the rebels to demobilize ...

And now ELN rebels and a new generation of criminal ... they've been forced to flee once again - this time by Colombia's guerrilla war. For NPR News, I'm John Otis in Tibu, Colombia.

A fierce outbreak of fighting in northern Colombia between rival guerilla factions in a drug turf war, has displaced tens of thousands of people.