Colombian lawyer and presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, has thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for endorsing his campaign.
Pro-Trump lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella has taken the lead in Colombia’s presidential race after the first round of elections over the weekend.
Tough-on-crime outsider Abelardo de la Espriella took the lead in Colombia’s presidential race in the first round of voting Sunday night, setting up a runoff with Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro who questioned the results of the election.
The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Ministers and officials are gathered in Colombia for a high-level conference aimed at accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels, with financing emerging as a key challenge.
Authorities in Colombia say that an explosive device on a bus has killed 13 people in the country's southwest region as violence there escalates.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has hosted two events in Barcelona to rally progressive leaders from around the world who fear for a rules-based world order.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is starting a two-day visit to Spain where he and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez will meet with other leaders, mostly of mid-to-small-sized countries, who are concerned with the fate of the democratic order and the rise of the populist far right.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press.
President Gustavo Petro’s political party has emerged victorious in Colombia’s congressional election, but will have to build coalitions with other parties to advance its agenda.
President Donald Trump has signed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown hours after the House passed the bill in a bipartisan vote.
President Donald Trump met on Tuesday with Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the White House for two hours.
Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador's war on gangs.
The Swiss town of Davos hosts the annual meeting of elites from business, government and culture this week.
President Donald Trump has abruptly changed his tone about his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro.
After apparent months of planning, the U.S. strike that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro unfolded swiftly over the weekend, with American forces converging on Caracas to arrest Maduro and his wife.
Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has declared himself “innocent” and a “decent man” as he is pleading not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges.
The U.S. capture and ouster of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro marked a stunning culmination of the Trump administration’s efforts to assert dominance in Latin America.
The Trump administration has designated another Latin American drug cartel as a foreign terrorist group, increasing financial pressure on its members and opening the door to potential military action against them.
Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump.
The family of a Colombian man has filed a formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has ordered security forces to stop sharing intelligence with the United States until it stops striking suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean.
European, Latin American, and Caribbean nations have started a two-day summit in Colombia to strengthen ties.
World leaders gathering the in Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the U.N.‘s annual climate summit warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Israel, the U.S. and the other mediators of the Gaza ceasefire deal are sharing information to disrupt any threats and that allowed them to identify a possible impending attack last weekend.
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family, and a government member over drug trade allegations.
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has proposed that Qatar could mediate to end the U.S. military presence in international waters near Venezuela.
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has indicated there are "signs" that a recent U.S. military boat attack off Venezuela involved Colombian citizens.
The United States is accusing Colombia’s president of undermining progress to lasting peace and urged its government to make combating violence and drug trafficking by “narco-terrorist groups” a priority.
Colombia's foreign minister has renounced her U.S. visa to protest the U.S. State Department's decision to revoke Colombian President Gustavo Petro's visa.
Every year, tons of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs flow around the world.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and officials involved in recent deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has criticized the U.S. after it added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war.
The Trump administration has added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in nearly three decades.
The father of Miguel Uribe, the Colombian presidential candidate fatally shot at a political rally earlier this year, has launched a campaign for Colombia's presidency.
A car bomb and an attack on a police helicopter in Colombia have killed at least 17 people, including police officers.
The remote Amazon island of Santa Rosa is at the center of a territorial dispute between Peru and Colombia.
Colombians have bid farewell to senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died this week more than two months after being shot during a political rally.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno has emerged as an interlocutor for conservatives in Latin America seeking to connect with the Trump administration.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has signed a controversial labor reform into law, delivering a significant increase in worker protections.
Colombia’s Senate has approved a labor bill that is expected to grant workers more overtime pay while making it harder for companies to hire employees on short-term contracts.
Colombian authorities have charged a 15-year-old with attempted murder for the assasination attempt on Miguel Uribe, the conservative presidential candidate who was shot in the head this weekend and is now in critical condition.
Colombian conservative presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe is in critical condition after being shot in the head during an assassination attempt over the weekend.
Bogota's mayor says Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, a conservative presidential hopeful, is in serious condition following surgery for a gunshot wound at a political rally a day earlier.
The conservative Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay has been shot and seriously injured at a campaign rally in the capital, Bogota.
Colombia’s wind energy plans in La Guajira are faltering as major companies exit and projects remain stalled.
The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction.
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died.
Volley after volley of new tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into trade wars abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.
A day after China and the U.S. agreed to a 90-day truce in their tariffs stalemate, China is moving to strengthen its alliances as a counterweight to President Donald Trump's trade war.
Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has left the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City where he had sought refuge more than a year ago after the courts upheld a prison sentence against him for money laundering and headed to Colombia where he has received political asylum.
Colombia's capital has South America’s only supervised room for drug use, aimed at reducing harm and preventing overdoses and now a topic of the International Conference on Harm Reduction, which has been taking place since Sunday in Bogota.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has visited Colombia as part of a tour of three Latin American nations to discuss deportation, immigration and crime.
Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a global trade war — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying farmers while they switch to legal crops.
If any husbands or boyfriends mess up Valentine’s Day this week, it’s not because of a shortage of flowers.
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has denied charges of bribery and witness tampering as he made his opening statement in the first criminal trial of a former president in the country’s history.
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian assistance in Colombia, conservation efforts in Brazil and coca eradication in Peru — South American countries that have been a priority for the support.
Colombian president Gustavo Petro has ordered the state-run oil company Ecopetrol to cancel a joint venture with U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum that was expected to produce around 90,000 barrels of oil per day.
The Trump administration has enlisted the U.S. military to quickly scale up its deportation capacity, which usually relies on charter flights.
With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for the rainforest.
Colombian migrants deported from the United States are returning home on Colombian military flights following a diplomatic dispute between the two countries over the flights.
President Donald Trump has signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of edicts to carry out promises of mass deportations and border security.
Donald Trump in his return to the White House has already previewed his second term foreign policy approach: Talk loudly and wield a big stick.
Visa appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia have been canceled following a dispute between President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro over deportation flights that nearly turned into a costly trade war between both countries.
The White House is claiming victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S., hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime U.S. partner.
Five decades of war among leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, drug lords and the government in Colombia have left 450,000 people killed and more than 124,000 disappeared.
Colombia’s government is offering a roughly $700,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of four leaders of a rebel group behind the deadly violence affecting a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela.
Colombia’s president has issued a decree giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela that has been wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups.
The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence that has left at least 80 people dead and displaced thousands in Colombia’s Catatumbo region.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says he will declare an emergency over the guerrilla attacks in the northeast that have killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee.
A Colombian official says more than 80 people have been killed in the country’s northeast region following failed attempts by the government to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been sworn in to serve a third term despite credible evidence that his opponent won the July 2024 election.
Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González is rallying regional support for the opposition's claims that he won the July election against President Nicolás Maduro.
Doctors say Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is recovering in an intensive care unit after undergoing surgery for a brain bleed.
The U.S. government has recognized Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González as the “president-elect” of the South American country, months after President Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won the July election.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged delegates at a major biodiversity summit to follow through on pledges to help save global biodiversity and for the private sector to come on board.
The International Crisis Group is reporting that Colombia's government efforts to control deforestation in the Amazon are being hampered by the actions of left-wing dissidents who control the area.
Electoral authorities in Colombia have ruled in favor of investigating financial misconduct allegations against the 2022 campaign that got President Gustavo Petro elected.
Colombia has suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group for an attack that killed two soldiers and injured more than 20.
An attack on a military base in eastern Colombia killed two soldiers and injured at least 21, Colombia’s military says, as tensions escalate between Colombia’s government and one of the nation’s largest remaining rebel groups.
In the rugged Micay Canyon of southwestern Colombia, rebel groups have beefed up their presence over the past two years despite efforts by Colombian President Gustavo Petro to negotiate peace deals with these irregular armies under a strategy known as total peace.
The European Union's top diplomat says that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has “not provided the necessary public evidence” to prove he was the winner of July’s elections.
A senior Mexican official says that since Venezuela’s disputed presidential election nine days ago, officials from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are in constant contact with representatives of both Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo González, seeking a solution to the country’s political crisis.