The United States’ Department of State designated Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization EGC as a foreign terrorist organization. According to the State Department, the Ejercito Gaitanista de Colombia (EGC) is called “Clan del...

Colombia’s longest-living guerrilla group ELN killed at least five people in 60 attacks that were carried out as part of its 72-hour offensive to shut down or disrupt the economy. Among those killed are two policemen from the city of Cali and t...

The far-right Democratic Center party elected senator Paloma Valencia as their candidate in Colombia’2026 presidential election. Valencia beat her colleagues, Maria Fernanda Cabal and Paola Holguin, in two separate polls that the party surveyed...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro remains defiant despite escalating threats from his US counterpart Donald Trump The two presidents have been at each other’s throats for months now over alleged US plans to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Madu...

At least 17 people were killed and another 20 were injured when the bus they traveled in drove off a cliff in northern Colombia, local media reported Sunday. The tragedy occurred early Sunday morning in the mountains near Segovia, a municipality in t...

For a literary festival, silence can be more revealing than speech. The decision by three writers to withdraw from the 2026 Hay Festival in Cartagena over the presence of María Corina Machado, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the most pr...

Christmas in Colombia does not arrive quietly. It announces itself early, with the scent of cinnamon and panela simmering in kitchens, the crackle of fireworks in neighborhood streets, and the steady murmur of voices gathering night after night for t...

Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, triggered yet another diplomatic rupture in South America on Sunday after denouncing Chile’s president-elect, José Antonio Kast, as a “Nazi,” rejecting the legitimacy of Chile’s democratic choice and sh...

The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast appears designed to further squeeze the economy of President Nicolás Maduro’s government. The Dec. 10, 2025 operation — in which American forces descended from helicopters onto the vesse...

Two centuries after its founding in the turbulent aftermath of the Wars of Independence, the National Museum of Colombia is marking its bicentenary with one of the most ambitious exhibitions in its history. Inspirar, conmover y convocar: el Museo de ...