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The massacres in Southeast Antioquia appear related to a confrontation between gangs associated with the Urabeños, which is also known as the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC), and the Medellin-based Oficina de Envigado. Both are looking to control local drug markets.

A lot has changed in the country’s underworld since the fall of one of the world’s most legendary criminals.

Peace negotiations between Colombia’s government and the ELN have reached their most precarious moment since they began last year.

The new generation of Colombian drug lords, dubbed "The Invisibles," realize that their best protection is not a private army — but anonymity.

The report details 439 instances of “corporate complicity” in human rights violations committed by paramilitary groups between 1970 and 2015.

The Mexicans face new and very different challenges, which offer both risks and opportunities.

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated two high-ranking members of the violent Colombian drug trafficking organization Los Urabeños as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs) pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics...

Colombia may be the newest route for migrants traveling illegally to the United States from third countries, according to a new documentary by the Discovery Channel and Caracol Television. The country serves as a transit point for many who undertake this perilous journey,...