Colombia's interior minister has resigned as a political crisis shakes the government of President Gustavo Petro, following his decision to appoint a controversial politician as chief of staff.

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

Ecuador will choose its next president in a runoff election in April between conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist ...

Some of the hundreds of Colombians deported in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency said they had only seen the United ...

Opposing them too openly can prove fatal: In 2023, the right-wing politician Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by Ecuador’s largest domestic organized crime ring, Los Lobos, after calling for a ...

In Colombia and Haiti, U.S. money has provided tools for farming and fishing and given incentives for people to stay in those ...

Residents of Colombia's troubled Catatumbo region, near the eastern border with Venezuela, are weighing whether to return home after attacks by a rebel group displaced at least 50,000 people over ...

Ecuadorian voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new president for the second time in 18 months amid an ...

In a first-of-its-kind, six-hour live broadcast ministerial meeting in the South American country, Colombian President ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro asked members of his Cabinet to resign on Sunday. The demand came after he criticized the Cabinet for its underwhelming performance for five straight hours on ...

A series of attacks against civilians has forced Colombia's government to break off peace talks with one of Colombia’s ...

Polls opened Sunday across Ecuador in a presidential election amid a rise in cartel turf wars and soaring murder rates. The ...