Bogotá hosts international human rights congress amid surging Latin American crime

FIDH president Alice Mogwe inaugurating the 42nd congress. Image courtesy of FIDH. This week, more than 400 rights defenders from over 100...

US slaps financial sanctions on Colombia’s Petro over drug dispute

President Gustavo Petro. Image credit: @infopresidencia via X. Riohacha, Colombia – The White House today announced financial sanctions on...

Clash with election authorities threatens Petro’s Historic Pact coalition

Historic Pact ballot. Image credit: @PactoCol via X. Bogotá, Colombia – Daniel Quintero, a candidate for the ruling Pacto Histórico...

Colombians killed in latest U.S. boat bombing: President Gustavo Petro 

Split image of President Gustavo Petro and aeial view of US strike on drug boat. Image credit: @InfoPresidencia and @SecWar via X. Bogotá,...

UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson rejected from Colombia as ‘threat to national security’

Tommy Robinson at Speakers' Corner. Image credit: Shayan Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn via Wikimedia Commons. Prominent British far-right...

Tibú takes off: Airstrip revival lifts hopes amid Colombia’s conflict

Children play on Tibú's airstrip. Image credit: Alfie Pannell. Bogotá, Colombia – The inaugural flight of a new commercial route from Cúcuta...

New corruption charges against Petro’s ex-Finance Minister and Chief of Staff

Corruption charges against Colombia’s ex-Finance Minister, Ricardo Bonilla, and former head of the Presidential Administrative Department (DAPRE),...

From García Márquez to Juan Valdez: Colombia’s pavilion at the 2025 World Expo 

Osaka, Japan –  Every five years, governments around the world invest time, labor and money into putting on an exhibition representing their...

Colombian President Petro launches last-ditch effort to pass flagship reforms

President Gustavo Petro. Image credit: @infopresidencia via X. President Gustavo Petro announced on Tuesday, June 3, that he will move forward...

How Colombia is responding to a deadly Yellow Fever outbreak

A left lateral view of a female, Aedes aegypti mosquito. Image credit: U.S. Center for Disease Control. Colombian authorities are trying to...