The Nasa’s fight against Gran Tierra Energy reveals the links between extraction and armed conflict, and the limitations of the government’s reforms.

The U.S. has long targeted the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but the Trump administration has stepped up those efforts.

Mongabay Latam hopes to reach new audiences by taking its award-winning investigation to the theatre, using 'stand-up ...

President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown.

In Colombia, drug gangs are waging a new kind of war — by air. Armed with cheap drones, they're targeting rivals in a ...

Hundreds of Indigenous youth have gathered in Colombia’s conflict-hit reserve of Las Delicias, in Cauca, for a biannual ...

In a region where natural resources are often exploited for illegal mining, deforestation and logging, confronting that ...

The Colombian state has a long history of fighting ideological guerrilla movements seeking to unseat the government in Bogotá. But today’s armed groups have no interest in combating the state. Instead ...

Colombia is facing its most critical situation since the 2016 peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group, according to a new report by the International ...

With a force of about 5,800 combatants, the ELN is one of the biggest armed groups still active in Colombia. It has taken part in failed peace negotiations with Colombia's last five governments.

For decades, armed groups have fought over control of ultra-lucrative coca plantations that dot the Colombia-Venezuela border region and which fuel the world's cocaine habit.

Over 80 people have died and tens of thousands have been displaced in escalating violence between armed groups as the border city of Cucuta scrambled Wednesday to cope with thousands of civilians ...