CUCÚTA — Back in 2016, many Colombians were outraged when the writer Iván Gallo called the city of Cúcuta, on the Venezuelan border, a “dump.” Nine years on, I’m still trying to prove ...

An officer tapes off a police station that was attacked in a separate incident in Cucuta, Colombia on Thursday (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights ...

highlighting the high rates of femicide in Latin America. Maria Jose Estupinan, a university student in Colombia’s northeastern city of Cucuta, close to the Venezuela border, was killed on May ...