President-elect Gustavo Petro is eager to fully open the Colombia-Venezuela border and jump start diplomatic relations with Nicolás Maduro and host of "pink tide" governments.

President Iván Duque has ended the country's COVID-19 Health Emergency leaving pandemic management in the hands of the incoming administration of Gustavo Petro.

Global markets are reacting to the election victory of Gustavo Petro and first leftist government in Colombia.

Colombian voters had their say Sunday with the definitive run-off between leftist politician Gustavo Petro and conservative Rodolfo Hernández. Petro President 2022-2026.

Colombians on both sides of the political divide are voting out of fear. Political parties have been replaced by personality cults. Candidates are no longer statesmen, but rather, influencers.

Colombia's 2022 presidential election will have heightened measures given fears of violence and potential vandalism in Bogotá. Candidates Hernández and Petro to meet in a final debate.

Colombians have endured one of the dirtiest election campaigns in recent history, and will decide on June 19 whether the country makes lurch to the left with Petro or maintains stability with Rodolfo Hernández.

After six decades of fighting, it is estimated that almost 20% of Colombia's population is a direct victim of the internal conflict, including almost nine million internally displaced people.

Sir Roger Casement exposed the injustices of the rubber trade in the Amazon before meeting an untimely end.

Isabel Henao is the leading lady of Colombian fashion, known for her sleek elegant designs, embroidered bridalwear and exquisite fabric selections.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA is hosting a groundbreaking exhibition of works showcasing the diversity and materiality of ancient Colombian cultures.

Two largest shipwrecks have been spotted on the ocean floor by the Colombian Navy and close to the where the legendary San José galleon is located.

Canada, UK, US, Australia and New Zealand have already put restrictions on the Chinese technology giant Huawei citing security concerns for 5G mobile users.

Colombia is set to redraw its political landscape with an election result that will reverberate across the hemisphere, and week after the US hosts its nineth Americas Summit.

The Stockholm Conference was a turning point in how countries thought about the natural world and the resources that all nations share.

Cali Cartel boss Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela has died, age 83, as an inmate of the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina. "The Chess player" was serving a 30-year prison sentence.

The surge in popularity of the arch-conservative candidate Rodolfo Hernández has stunned Gustavo Petro. The leftist candidate now trails Hernández in a recent poll.

A first case of Acute hepatitis of unknown origin has been confirmed by Colombia's National Institute of Health, and among hundreds of new cases identified by health authorities worldwide.

Cuba eliminará el uso obligatorio de la mascarilla desde este martes, una medida que ha estado vigente durante más de dos años para enfrentar la pandemia de la COVID-19.

Petro first round victory was assured on Sunday, yet his main rival is no longer right-winger "Fico" Gutiérrez, but the arch conservative real estate mogul Rodolfo Hernández.

With less than 48-hours before 39 million Colombians head to the polls, the country is bracing for historic shift to the left should progressive candidate Gustavo Petro win the 2022 election.

From Cold War-era insurgents to narco-warriors, Colombia's many illegal armed groups continue to be proxies in battlefields void of ideologies. Both extreme Left and Right exaggerate foreign support.

Some 80,000 members of Colombia’s Armed Forces and National Police are in charge of protecting citizens from security risks during the presidential election on Sunday, May 29.

One of Colombia's "most wanted" criminals, alias "Gentil Duarte", and founding member of the Second Marquetalia, was killed during raid in Venezuela.

Colombia is inching to an abyss of politically uncertainty after serious allegations by leftist candidate Gustavo Petro that the May 29 elections will be "suspended".