US officials have accused Andres Lopez Elorza of using his surgical skills to turn dogs into drug mules for Colombian cartels. He has been a fugitive since 2005, after an investigation uncovered the inhumane scheme.

The Panamanian border with Colombia is the demarcation between North and South America. The boundaries between the continents of Earth are generally a matter of geographical convention. Several sli…

Indigenous communities that depend on Colombia's Amazon rainforest for their survival will have more say over their ancestral lands, as Colombia adds 8 million hectares to its protected areas in an effort to stem forest loss. The new measures announced by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday aim to create a buffer zone for the country's southern Amazon region. Farmers are pushing deeper into forests, cutting down more trees to clear land for cattle-grazing and agriculture.

The tree is breathing new life in Colombia's northeastern Guajira region. Known to be widely adaptable, the guaimaro is drought-resistant but manmade activities like deforestation have decimated the bountiful tree, whose leaves and fruit have for centuries sustained animals and humans alike.

Ángela Díaz stood on a rock ledge above a creek called Caño Piedras and pointed out an unassuming olive-colored plant growing below. Macarenia clavigera, she said, is the key to the future of this remote region in central Colombia. When the rains come in May, the rivers will rise and the plant will turn a brilliant red. “This plant has the peculiar quality of turning distinct colors,” she said. “You can see it from May to November.”

Thousands of Venezuelans have rushed to border crossings with Colombia after Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced a tightening of controls. Only those who have registered for a special border card or can produce a passport will be able to cross. They fear it will become more difficult for them to enter Colombia once the measures are fully implemented.

Bogota residents burned garbage on Tuesday after the local trash collecting system broke down over a dispute between the mayor and the 3,200 trash collectors. Garbage in the Alamos neighborhood…

Jhonier de Avila darted far to his left, fielded the ground ball and hurled it across the diamond so hard that it popped the first baseman's mitt. The shortstop picked up another one cleanly, this time with his backhand, and he whipped it to first in one motion. "Manos de seda! Mano de seda!" his teammates howled from the dugout. "Suavecitas, suavecitas. Vamos, vamos, Niño, vamos!"

Colombia has shipped around 50 tonnes (55 tons) of ham to Venezuela after protests broke out over shortages of the traditional holiday staple, an official said Saturday. The first two trucks of ham arrived in Venezuela on Friday night, a source from Colombia’s national tax and customs office told AFP.

Colombia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning president has thanked Canadians for their support of his country's peace process. Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the peace prize last year for his efforts to end Colombia's half century of civil conflict. He says Canada along with other nations were instrumental in maintaining the momentum behind peace talks.

The brother of the late Pablo Escobar has sent a chilling message to Netflix after a ‘Narcos‘ location scout was shot dead – urging them to ‘hire hitmen’ as security. Earlier this month, the 37-year-old Carlos Muñoz Portal was scouting locations for season four of the popular Netflix series, before his bullet-riddled body and car were found in a remote area near the borders of Hidalgo state, a hugely violent area of the country.

Three men from Colombia speak to BBC World Service about life as a polyamorous throuple, after having their romantic union officially recognised.

The case of Colombian scientist Diego Gomez — on trial for copyright violation for sharing a research paper — is likely to reach a head later this month.

‍‍At least 254 people have been killed and hundreds are injured or missing after mudslides destroyed homes in southern Colombia, Reuters has reported, citing an army statement. The violent weather has left 400 other people injured, with 200 missing, said the statement. There have been no reports of Chinese casualties, confirmed the Chinese Embassy in Colombia.

Landslides have killed at least 112 people in south-west Colombia and left many more injured, says President Juan Manuel Santos. Hours of heavy rains overnight caused rivers to burst their banks, flooding homes with mud in Putumayo province. An unknown number of people are missing. One army officer said the main local hospital was struggling to cope.

Hundreds are also injured in the province of Putumayo after heavy rain causes mudslides.

Colombia's plan to turn coca-leaf farmers into coffee growers has a fatal flaw: the market.

According to Colombian police officials, the number of people kidnapped in their nation has fallen by 92% since 2000. The country used to be considered one of the most popular zones for kidnapping in the world, with an estimated 30,000 people captured since 1970. Thanks to the recent peace deal between the rebels of The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People’s Army and the government, thus ending their 52 year war, only about 188 people were kidnapped in 2016, showing historic new progress.

Police in Colombia say the number of people kidnapped has fallen 92% since 2000. The head of the counter-kidnapping police force, Fernando Murillo, said 188 people had been abducted in 2016. Colombia was for years the world's kidnapping hotspot with human rights groups estimating that almost 33,000 people have been seized since 1970. A peace deal with Colombia's main rebel group and improved security have led to the "historic shift", police said.

Even in a country often numbed by outbreaks of violence and heinous crime, the brutal death of a seven-year-old indigenous girl has horrified Colombia. Yuliana Andrea Samboní was playing with a cousin outside her family’s breeze-block home on the morning of 4 December in a poor neighbourhood of Bogotá when a man in a grey SUV snatched her from the street and sped away. Her body was found 10 hours later, raped, tortured and strangled, in the machine room of a hot tub at a nearby luxury penthouse.