A trend of Ecuadorian criminal leaders turning up in neighboring Colombia underscores the country's role as both a refuge and ...

The Nasa’s fight against Gran Tierra Energy reveals the links between extraction and armed conflict, and the limitations of the government’s reforms.

Mongabay Latam hopes to reach new audiences by taking its award-winning investigation to the theatre, using 'stand-up ...

President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown.

In Colombia, drug gangs are waging a new kind of war — by air. Armed with cheap drones, they're targeting rivals in a ...

Hundreds of Indigenous youth have gathered in Colombia's conflict-hit reserve of Las Delicias, in Cauca, for a biannual ...

According to the Colombian Ombudsman's Office, 409 children and teenagers were recruited by armed groups in 2024.

No armed group claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks that shook the departments of Cauca and Valle del Cauca, but authorities suspect that Estado Mayor Central (EMC), a "dissident" armed ...

With a force of about 5,800 combatants, the ELN is one of the biggest armed groups still active in Colombia. It has taken part in failed peace negotiations with Colombia's last five governments.

People attend a meeting with a Colombian government commission to ask for help due to the escalation of violence by illegal armed groups in the area, in Condoto, Colombia February 22, 2025.

For decades, armed groups have fought over control of ultra-lucrative coca plantations that dot the Colombia-Venezuela border region and which fuel the world's cocaine habit.