Colombia, with U.S. help ... to risk a dangerous trek through the Darién Gap, a jungle linking South and Central America, creating a humanitarian and political crisis for President Biden.

This criminal foothold in Cúcuta served as a springboard for Tren de Aragua to extend its tentacles into other areas of Colombia and beyond, following migrants as they traveled down through South ...

Reporter Manuel Rueda is in Cucuta on the Colombian ... opening mean for this region of South America? RUEDA: So Gustavo Petro, the new president of Colombia, is trying to improve relations ...

More than 32,000 people have fled to towns in northeast Colombia as they attempt to escape a sharp rise in fighting between militant factions, according to the country’s ombudsman. Iris Marín ...

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 ...

Colombia has long been the largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance in South America. Recent USAID money has supported emergency humanitarian aid to more than 2.8 million Venezuelans who fled ...

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 ...