CALOTO, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous Nasa children are gently splashed with water using a leafy branch — a ritual meant to protect them and symbolically “open the path” — before setting off with wooden ...

MONTERIA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for victims of the country ...

CORINTO, Colombia, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A machete slung across his chest, sugarcane worker Aldemar Moreno guards the entrance to the farm where he has been employed for 23 years, ready to defend it ...

GRANADA, Colombia (AP) — At first, Sandra Gonzalez didn’t think much of the guerrillas burying objects on the dirt road outside her isolated, cinder-block farmhouse as they prepared to leave town 12 ...

Land rights and special protections for Indigenous communities are entrenched in Colombia’s post-conflict transitional justice measures like the Truth Commission, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, ...

Journalist and filmmaker Rodrigo Vazquez-Salessi reports on the ground from rural Colombia, where displaced families have returned to reclaim their land and to take on the oil companies that are ...

BOGOTA, Colombia Colombia's armed forces blew up 6,800 stockpiled land mines Sunday as President Alvaro Uribe, Queen Noor of Jordan and dozens of mine blast victims watched. The queen, U.S. Ambassador ...

A child rests inside a temporary shelter assigned by the Bogota mayor’s office in Colombia on Oct. 20, after Indigenous groups spent months negotiating with the government to return to their homelands ...