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...

Guerrilla group ELN ordered a 72-hour lockdown in some of Colombia’s largest cities and regions under their control in protest against the “threats of an imperialist intervention in our country” by US President Donald Trump. The loc...

The Economy Commission of Colombia’s Senate struck down a law that sought finance the government’s 2026 budget with a tax reform targeting the elite of the country’s elite. The tax reform sought to close a $4.2 billion (COP16.3 tril...

With congressional elections drawing near, Colombia’s main parties have picked their candidate lists and campaign leaders. The parties’ and their candidates are supported by a collection of political machineries, activists and political baron...

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 ...

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio declared Thursday that the Government of President Gustavo Petro is “not in agreement” with the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado – a position th...