In a vehicle with his two bodyguards, Cristian Herrera talks about the dangers he faces covering Colombia’s Catatumbo region as he heads to his latest assignment. An independent reporter, Herrera has ...

Armed groups have taken the conflict to the skies by making greater use of cheap, widely available drone technology.

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In a message posted on X Monday night, Colombia’s Human Rights Ombudswoman Iris Marín said that the displaced people come from Tibu and El Tarra, two municipalities where fighting between rebel groups ...

Drones hover low over coca fields in Catatumbo, a remote region in northeastern Colombia along the border with Venezuela, tracing invisible lines of control across the land. They are joined by rumours ...

Sixteen months after the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla group signed an agreement in Bogotá ending a half century of fighting, the promise of peace is a far cry from reality in ...

Jorge Torres, a.k.a. “Pablo Catatumbo,” is a senator of the FARC, the former guerrilla group that demobilized and disarmed in 2017. Catatumbo was born in 1953 in Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, ...