CALOTO, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous Nasa children are gently splashed with water using a leafy branch — a ritual meant to protect them and symbolically “open the path” — before setting off with wooden ...

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’. President Gustavo Petro said on ...

MONTERIA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for victims of the country ...

150 families displaced from their farms near Arauquita, Colombia 20 years ago have reclaimed their land from the Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The story of multinational corporations taking land ...

GRANADA, Colombia (AP) — At first, Sandra Gonzalez didn’t think much of the guerrillas burying objects on the dirt road outside her isolated, cinder-block farmhouse as they prepared to leave town 12 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia Colombia's armed forces blew up 6,800 stockpiled land mines Sunday as President Alvaro Uribe, Queen Noor of Jordan and dozens of mine blast victims watched. The queen, U.S. Ambassador ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of land claims by Afro-Colombians sitting unresolved, some for over a decade, put those communities in danger of being driven off their land by business ...