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

The Colombian president sought to reach agreements with all of the country’s armed groups, but now finds himself dealing with ...

Petro, who is up for reelection in 2026, donned the presidential sash with the intention of bringing peace to Colombia at the negotiating table. His plans in ruins, and having failed to bring peace to ...

The clashes between rival guerrilla groups have left 80 dead as Colombia braces for cutbacks in U.S. foreign aid under President Trump.

Gustavo Petro, has pushed for “total peace.” His goal is to demobilize all rebels and drug trafficking gangs, but even as a ...

Colombia has endured a decades-long ... When the left-wing Petro took office in 2022, he promised “total peace” in the country and tried to push for ceasefires with armed groups.

Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—The war over cocaine between ... signaling a likely end to President Gustavo Petro’s plans to sign peace accords with drug-trafficking organizations. The violence, in which ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia – More than 80 ... apart is a real but also symbolic blow to total peace,” Dickinson said. “It was this one thing that Petro thought maybe he could do, and now they ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia on Friday suspended for second time in less than a year peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group of the violence that has ...