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Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a ...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has stirred up a decades-old border controversy with Peru by accusing it of fully annexing ...
The government of Gustavo Petro moved Colombia’s Independence Day celebrations to Leticia amid a territorial dispute with ...
The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.
Rosa Villavicencio is set to be confirmed as Colombia’s foreign minister as the Andean nation faces fraying relations with the US and neighboring Peru. Villavicencio, who had served as deputy foreign ...
From century-old disputes to recent conflicts sparked by natural resource discoveries, territorial disagreements remain a ...
Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network fueling illicit gold mining in the Amazon ...
This is the first of a series analyzing Colombia’s neighbors in the beginning of Santos’ second year. It has been many years since Peru has been one of Colombia’s mayor allies in the region. The ...
Colombia is no longer king. After nearly two decades as the top producer of coca, the main ingredient in cocaine, Colombia has passed the baton to neighboring Peru, according to United Nations ...
After Peru, Trump will travel to Colombia for meetings with President Juan Manuel Santos. Trump's topics at these meetings will include immigration, border security, and "fair and reciprocal trade ...
Just two years after it ceased to be the world’s largest producer, falling behind Peru, Colombia now grows more illegal coca than Peru and third-place Bolivia combined. In 2014, the last year ...