One Colombian soldier is dead and another one is injured following clashes with guerrilla dissidents in a coca-growing region ...

the raw material for Colombia’s multibillion-dollar cocaine industry. Over the past week, Catatumbo — named after the river that snakes through it — has been ripped by the most intense ...

There's a place on Earth where lightning flashes almost every night—until, one day, it stopped. What causes the Catatumbo ...

After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a ...

The ELN has been clashing in Catatumbo with former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a guerrilla group that disbanded after signing a peace deal in 2016 with Colombia ...

as guerilla factions launched a violent war to control the vital cocaine-producing Catatumbo region of northern Colombia. Petro, himself a former guerilla fighter from the M-19 movement ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared a state of emergency in Catatumbo region Friday in response to escalating violence between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and “dissident” factions of the ...

Violence between armed groups in the Catatumbo region has displaced more than 32,000 people, rights groups estimate. Soldiers deploy in Tibu, Colombia, on January 20 amid an uptick in violence ...

Police patrol in Tibu, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, following guerrilla attacks that have killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Catatumbo region.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s president issued ... However, it applies only to the rural Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, where the Colombian state has struggled for decades ...

The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their barracks for fear of snipers. The sharpshooters concealed in the ...