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 ...

Gustavo Petro gave his Independence Day speech in the port of Leticia, across from a disputed enclave on the Amazon River, ...

The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.

From century-old disputes to recent conflicts sparked by natural resource discoveries, territorial disagreements remain a ...

Hopes among foreign energy companies that Colombia's coast could serve as a key source of oil and gas for the future are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...