Colombia

A hippopotamus descended from animals illegally brought to Colombia by the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has died in a collision with an SUV on a highway near Escobar’s hacienda, environmental authorities said Wednesday.

A Colombian man once referred to as the country’s most notorious drug lord since Pablo Escobar has pleaded guilty to cocaine smuggling charges in the U.S.

The Colombian navy rescued a man from Dominica who says he survived 24 days adrift in the Caribbean on a sailboat by eating ketchup, garlic powder and seasoning cubes.

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro announced his intention to fully open the border crossings with Colombia starting Jan. 1.

Hason Hernandez knew he wanted his 15th birthday to be the last one he had a big party for, so he wanted to go out with a bang. The Southern California asked his mom if he could have a quinceañera, the time-honored coming-of-age celebration for girls in Latin American cultures. Hernandez’s mom loved the idea. He’s part of a growing...

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country.

The Mexican men’s soccer team continues its “MexTour Sendoff Series” at Levi’s Stadium against Colombia on Tuesday. Here’s what to know about the game.

The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela on Friday announced that the years-long closure of their countries’ shared border to cargo transport will end Sept. 26. Air service between their capitals will also resume.

Cocaine production in Colombia remained near record levels in 2021, according to estimates released by the White House, raising the stakes for bilateral cooperation between the United States and Colombia’s next administration.

A fire at a prison in southwestern Colombia has killed at least 51 people and injured a dozen more, prison authorities reported Tuesday.

At least four people were killed and hundreds injured when part of the wooden stands collapsed during a bullfight in Colombia.

An 18-month-old baby was among those killed when part of the wooden stands collapsed during a bullfight in central Colombia Sunday, sending spectators plunging to the ground

Former rebel Gustavo Petro has narrowly won a runoff election in Colombia over a political outsider millionaire, ushering in a new era of politics by becoming the country’s first leftist president.

A new video released by the National Navy of Colombia shows various artifacts of gold coins and other treasures around the shipwreck of the historic San José galleon that sunk more than 300 years ago.

Newly released images from Colombia’s Navy reveals that the wreckage of the San Jose, a 62-gun, three-masted Spanish galleon that sunk to the bottom of the Caribbean over three hundred years ago, is laden with gold and other artifacts.

A leftist former rebel and a populist businessman have taken the top two spots among the six candidates in Colombia’s presidential election and are heading to a runoff showdown in June, delivering a blow to the country’s political class.

Paraguay’s prosecutor of organized crime and drug trafficking cases was slain Tuesday by gunmen on a Colombian beach as he honeymooned with his new wife, who said the attackers came on a jet ski or small boat.

For decades renowned Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez kept the public from knowing about an intimate aspect of his life: He had a daughter with a Mexican writer, with whom he had an extramarital affair in the early 1990s

Thinking of leaving the U.S.? From Mexico to Costa Rica to Italy, seven expats share how they earn an income and what life is like outside of America.

A once-standout U.S. narcotics agent who used his badge to build a lavish lifestyle of luxury cars and Tiffany jewelry has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for conspiring to launder money with a Colombian cartel