Leaders from South America's Amazon nations have gathered in Colombia to agree on a joint plan to protect the rainforest.

The assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay is rattling Colombia, which is already politically polarized and on edge ahead of next year's presidential election. The post The Specter of Political Violence Once Again Haunts Colombia appeared first on World Politics Review.

Bogota's superior court has overturned a judge's order that former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe be held on house arrest while he appeals convictions for bribery of a public official and abuse of process,

Security forces and forensic team members work next to debris following the explosion of a cargo vehicle near an Aerospace Force base, in one of two attacks attributed to FARC dissident groups, that caused multiple casualties, according to authorities, in Cali, Colombia August 21, 2025. REUTERS/Oswaldo Paez

The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City, or some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth. It’s much higher,” Trump said.

A Colombian appeals court ruled Tuesday that the country's former president, Álvaro Uribe, must be released from house arrest while he challenges his conviction for bribery and witness tampering.

When Ms. Acosta rode Bogotá’s public buses, she said she avoided speaking so people wouldn’t hear her accent. She said people would use a disrespectful term for Venezuelans in Colombia and ...

The death of Miguel Uribe, two months after the attack against him, marks a return to the worst period of political violence in Colombia.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, told Colombian leaders they must make a choice: Either be an ally of the United States or be an ally of China. They can't do both, he said.