Evidence released by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed ties between Colombia’s former President Andres Pastrana and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a partial release of the so-called Epstein Files, the DOJ released a...

Colombia’s government will declare an economic emergency in response to the Senate’s refusal to approve the finance bill that sought to secure the revenue needed for the 2026 budget. The Senate decision left a $4.2 billion (COP16.3 billio...

Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP sentenced retired colonel Publio Hernan Mejia to 20 years in prison for his responsibility in 72 homicides committed by his forces to inflate their unit’s apparent effectiveness. The retired colonel was ...

The president of Colombia’s Constitutional Court has been forced to retract false claims that his extramarital child was the result of sexual abuse. Constitutional Court Magistrate Jorge Enrique Ibañez made the sexual abuse and other false claims ...

Guerrilla group ELN allegedly killed at least six soldiers and injured another 28 in a drone and mortar attack on a military base in northern Colombia. The attack took place in Aguachica, a municipality in the Cesar province that is considered of maj...

Why such a massive U.S. military deployment off the coast of Venezuela, supposedly to combat the “Cartel of the Suns” and stop drug trafficking from Venezuela to the United States? After more than four months, the results amount to little more th...

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...