NEW YORK -- The Organization of American States on Friday released a report laying out a future in which more countries in the Western Hemisphere lega...

If we could keep these resolutions, 2013 would be a banner year for U.S.-Latin American relations.

A drug policy based on health, harm reduction, cost effectiveness and human rights is no longer an impossible dream; it is something that is almost within our reach.

Peace negotiations began this week between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (known as FARC), a guerrilla group that has waged a half-century long offensive against the government.

BOGOTA — Doctors say Wednesday's cancer operation on Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has gone off successfully. Dr. Adolfo Llinas is the m...

BOGOTA, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos checked into a hospital on Wednesday to undergo surgery for non-aggressive prostate...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday evening that a man he described as Colombia's last big-time drug lord had bee...

Would it be possible to achieve peace in Colombia? History says no, but 78% of the Colombian people say yes to the efforts of their President, according to polls by the National Consulting Center conducted right after the announcement.

BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Tuesday a preliminary accord with Colombia's main leftist rebel group to launch pea...

In an astonishing act of civil disobedience, local residents of Toribio, a small town in southwest Colombia, demanded that government forces fighting the rebel FARC go home -- and destroyed their fortifications to underscore the point.

BOGOTA, Colombia — A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 39 people in Bogota's ...

CARTAGENA, Colombia — Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away...

The foundations of the U.S.-led war on drugs -- eradication of production, interdiction of traffic, and criminalization of consumption -- have not succeeded and never will. When there is established demand for a consumer product, there will be a supply.

After an International Consortium of Investigative Journalists exposé about paramilitaries involvement in the coltan trade, Colombia is moving to curb illegal mining of the highly sought after mineral.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's main rebel group executed four of its longest-held captives during combat Saturday between guerrillas and soldiers sear...

BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday called on fighters of Latin America's only major rebel force to accept the killing o...

Armed forces are accused of murdering 2,547 civilians and presenting them as combat kills; there are now 27,000 forced disappearances in Colombia

Walid Makled, Venezuela's Pablo Escobar had reached the pinnacle of wealth and power. It was short lived.