On this page, you’ll find the latest updates on Colombia and the current security situation as of March 2025. WOLA closely ...

Petro, who was part of a rebel group in his youth, has been staging peace talks with nine separate rebel groups and drug ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has repeatedly claimed that Mexican cartels are responsible for the recent escalation of violence in the country's internal armed conflict. The head of State ...

Colombia's oil industry is facing new scandals involving environmental misdeeds, unreported oil spills, and human rights ...

The demobilization of an ELN faction is a symbolic rather than substantive step forward for Colombia’s Total Peace policy.

Colombia has experienced an upsurge in political and criminal violence over the past few months. In late February, the National Liberation Army (ELN) leftist guerrilla insurgent group carried out four ...

Alessandro Coatti had been travelling in South America when he vanished from Santa Marta, with police later finding his ...

A flood of cocaine from Colombia and Peru through Ecuadoran ports has created a plethora of mafias with striking names and ...

The global suspension of USAID funding is shuttering peace and anti-gang programs in Colombia's most impoverished places, endangering implementation of the country's 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...