The Colombian military said it killed at least 22 leftist guerrillas Sunday in an offensive involving aerial bombardment and ground troops near the border with Ecuador. Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera claimed the government had “dealt a serious...

The group of Colombian reporters detained earlier this weekend by Venezuelan authorities arrived Sunday in Colombia after being deported by the neighboring country, where they had been conducting reporting activities on the alleged presence of an ELN...

More than 70 Colombian miners are feared dead after they were trapped by an explosion that ripped through a coal mine in what could become one of the Andean country’s worst mining disasters. At least 18 bodies were pulled from the wreckage after...

The former defense minister who emerged from weekend voting as the front-runner in next month’s presidential runoff election said Monday he hopes to restore good relations with Venezuela and Ecuador if he wins. Juan Manuel Santos, who directed...

Coffee production in Colombia increased in April by 88 percent over the same month in 2009, testifying to the recovery of a sector that has been in decline for 20 months. A communique from the Fedecafe growers association said Monday that coffee...

The army foiled a bomb attack Sunday on Orlando Beltran, a legislative candidate and former hostage of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in the southwestern Colombian city of Neiva and arrested a member of that guerrilla group,...

Armed men kidnapped the governor of the south Colombian department of Caqueta on Monday evening. Authorities think rebel group FARC is behind the most high-profile kidnapping in seven years. According to several local media, a group of ten heavily...

The government of Colombia, stung by scandal over government links to right-wing militias and an imperiled trade deal with Washington, faces charges from leading U.S.-based academics that it is distorting information purportedly seized from Marxist...

Standing side by side in a show of solidarity, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and Ecuador President Rafael Correa stood firm in their support of one another after days of accusations lobbed back and forth between the two countries and Colombia. The...