Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, also known as Jorge Briceno or “Mono Jojoy,” the top military commander of the Marxist revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, was killed by Colombian troops on Wednesday, reported Azerbaijan...

Lorenzo the parrot was taken into police custody in Colombia after he was found warning members of a drug cartel that they were in danger of being caught. The bird was present when police conducted an undercover raid in Barranquilla early on Wednesday.

Fourteen police officers were killed when their patrol vehicle was blown up by a rebel mine on a road in southern Caqueta department, local police said Thursday. “At first we got reports of five police killed in a mine field, but only when we...

Colombia’s Galeras volcano erupted early Wednesday, but authorities say the situation is under control, though they are continuing to ask local villagers to evacuate the area as soon as possible. “Falling ash in several villages on the northwestern...

He got married on an elephant. He dispatched mimes into the streets to shame drivers into respecting pedestrians. He took a televised shower to demonstrate how citizens could conserve water. There is no telling what Antanas Mockus might do should he...

Two Colombian police were killed and five others wounded Thursday in an ambush by leftist FARC rebels in the southwestern province of Cauca, authorities said.

The woman had been pronounced dead hours earlier at a hospital in Cali, in western Colombia, after she suffered multiple organ failure due to complications related to multiple sclerosis.

The chief of Colombia’s secret police says a mob assaulted three of its agents as they tried to arrest a suspect with alleged guerrilla ties. DAS intelligence agency director Felipe Munoz says Ivan Danilo Alarcon, wanted for rebellion and drug...

The slumping global economy is having a stimulus effect on Costa Rica’s famous sex-tourism industry, as a growing number of unemployed women — from Colombia to the Dominican Republic — flock to San José to seek a living in the...

Bolivian President Evo Morales said that he and Brazil’s government are unhappy with Colombia withholding details regarding the military bases agreement with the United States. Morales claimed that UNASUR member countries have still not been...