The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new ...
Social movements and community organizations demand peace as violence breaks out in the northeastern region of Colombia.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Thursday that he has been in contact with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to implement an action plan to prevent armed groups from crossing the border, ...
The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their barracks for fear of snipers.
Some families also fled into Venezuela, arriving by river or on motorbikes and in cars ... extortion and illegal gold mining. In Catatumbo, ELN fighters went door to door with death lists, murdering ...
for control of the cocaine business in the Andean Catatumbo region, in Northern Santander, and across the border in Táchira, Venezuela. With its fertile valleys for growing coca, mountain fastnesses, ...
"We want Peace," they wrote in block capitals on a huge white banner in the town of Teorama in Catatumbo region ... The bloodshed in the area bordering Venezuela has been blamed on the leftist ...