In a fiery exchange, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has drawn a controversial parallel between Trump's actions and those of the Nazi leader of WW2 Germany

President Gustavo Petro is locked in a war of words with President Trump over Colombia’s major role in the global drug trade. The issue is complicated.

(Mandel NGAN/AFP/AFP) Donald Trump's decision to freeze millions in aid to Colombia and brand its president a drug trafficker has smashed long-standing ties and could yet shake up the country's 2026 presidential race. With the US president's threat of ...

Largely obscured by more dramatic conflicts in Europe, Africa and Asia, one of history’s bloodiest struggles goes silently on in Colombia. In the eight-year-old strife between the Colombian army and anti-government guerrillas, the death toll, according ...

Colombia has long battled a reputation associated with images of narcoterrorism and Pablo Escobar, but it has actually been in lockstep with the U.S. in fighting the war on drugs since the late 1990s. Now, though, the Trump administration has begun ...

BOGOTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Colombia's President Gustavo Petro averted an economic disaster at the 11th hour after diplomats from his government and the U.S. reached a deal on deportation flights, but the Colombian business community on Monday called for ...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos owes his job to a fruitful partnership. From 2006-09, he served as Defense Minister for then-President Alvaro Uribe, one of Colombia‘s most popular modern leaders. Together they directed a military surge that drove ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's government is reactivating arrest orders for the top leadership of the nation's largest rebel group following attacks on civilians as part of a deadly turf war with dissident guerrillas from another armed group for control ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro warns Latin American nations must unite to avoid exploitation after threats from Donald Trump, including possible military action in Colombia. The remarks follow U.S.

The U.S. placed Colombia on its list of countries failing to meet international drug enforcement obligations. Coca cultivation has tripled in Colombia over the past decade, reaching a record 253,000 hectares in 2023. Washington issued a sanctions waiver ...

President Trump threatened Colombia with possible action to stop drug flows, describing Venezuela’s neighbor as “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he's not going to be doing it very long.