Senator Efrain Cepeda, the Senate Chief of Colombia’s Conservative Party, has been accused of ties to the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC. In his testimony before the warcrime tribunal JEP, former senator Alvaro Ashton alleged that Ce...

President Gustavo Petro denounced Ukraine’s racist treatment of mercenaries from Colombia. In a post on social media platform X, Petro warned that Colombian mercenaries are being treated as an “inferior race” and “cannon fodde...

President Gustavo Petro clashed with the United States government over the possible killing of Colombian citizens in airstrikes on alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that indications showed that Co...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro welcomed a ceasefire between the government of Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas. Petro celebrated the news on social media platform X, claiming that it was the Global South, including Colombia, tha...

A Medellin court ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office to launch investigations into former president Alvaro Uribe and his brother for the murder of two prominent human rights lawyers. The Third Criminal Court of Medellin ordered the investig...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday, recognizing her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the […]

The White House said it would “welcome” a public retraction from Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he accused the U.S. military of killing Colombian citizens during a recent naval strike […]

The 21st century has witnessed many days of infamy, but among the most horrific was October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a coordinated assault on southern Israel. More than 1,200 […]

For centuries, the funerary masks of Colombia’s Eastern Andes have guarded their secrets. Crafted from resin, clay, wax, maize, and adorned with delicate beads, these masks were fitted so precisely […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro expelled Israel’s diplomats after two Colombians were detained on a Gaza-bound flotilla. The Gaza crisis is fueling protests and vandalism in Bogotá, and critics warn Petro may be fueling unrest to cement his b...