Colombia’s peso fell the most in three months after President Juan Manuel Santos challenged the central bank to take steps to ease a rally that drove the local currency to a two-year high. Santos told reporters today after meeting with policy makers...

After the posturing and hysterics, an emergency meeting and competing press briefings, South American leaders were unable to resolve a crisis that began when the Colombian government accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of aiding and abetting...

A criminal court judge was slain Thursday in the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin while waiting for a taxi, police said. The suspected shooter of Judge Diego Fernando Escobar Munera fled the scene on a city bus, but was captured minutes later by...

At least four people were killed and 33 others wounded when a car packed with explosives blew up outside city hall in the Colombian port of Buenaventura, officials said, blaming the attack on leftist FARC rebels. The bomb exploded around 9:25 a.m. in...

Outlandish tales of shady drug bosses and glamorous women assassins are the staple of Colombian primetime television. But the latest “narco-soaps” about the country’s drug gangs have sparked a debate about just how much of that dark...

A gubernatorial candidate in the Colombian province of Guaviare was wounded and several people with him, reportedly including two police officers, were killed Sunday when FARC guerrillas ambushed his party as it was making a campaign trip, police...

From Nariño to Bogota to Magdalena, armed death squads are once again imposing a brutal brand of justice with worrying tolerance from the authorities. Alvaro Uribe probably has no direct links to paramilitary groups, but his presidency has not...

Colombia’s National Planning Council claimed Tuesday that the fight against drugs is lost and the current government’s ‘Democratic Security’ policy in large part is responsible for the systematic increase in human rights...