BOGOTA, June 21, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Colombian President Gustavo Petro called off plans for a controversial referendum on his ...

A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

More than 50 Colombian soldiers were being held captive Sunday by residents of a guerrilla-controlled region in the southwest of the country, the army said.

Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first-ever leftist president, took office in 2022 with the goal of extricating his country from the US-led "war on drugs" blamed for double-victimization of rural ...

Under President Gustavo Petro, Colombia has made unprecedented progress in agrarian reform, distributing 570,000 hectares of ...

The President's first round of tariffs in 2017 was costly to OK farmers, and now he's back to do it again. Can members of ...

Mr Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first ... Some farmers may “try to deceive” by taking the money while continuing to grow coca, Argelia government secretary Pablo Daza told AFP.

"No armed group that lives off (coca) is going to want a farmer to stop growing coca and switch to coffee," he said. - 'Naive' - Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first-ever leftist president, took office in ...

In 2024, six Latin American countries were in the top 10 nations with the highest loss of tropical primary forest, according ...

One of Venezuela’s most valuable overseas assets is set to lose a license that allows it to operate in Colombia, amid a US attack on the finances of the Nicolas Maduro regime.