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Colombia's police director says the son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was directly involved in cartel business, even killings, rejecting the denials of a man whose reappearance is creating a sensation in Colombia 16 years after his father's death.
President Alvaro Uribe's government said Saturday it is dropping a demand that Colombia's main rebel group release all its police and military hostages at once, possibly opening the way for negotiations.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is still recovering from the swine flu, and now his defense minister is showing some symptoms of the illness, officials said Monday.
President Alvaro Uribe has the swine flu and officials have contacted other South American governments whose leaders attended a summit last week with the Colombian leader, authorities said Sunday.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has said almost nothing in public about his meetings with South American presidents this week in response to fears that the U.S. military could become too powerful on the continent if given long-term leases on Colombian bases.
A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former leftist rebel captors to unilaterally free two hostages is in limbo.
A mortar attack by leftist rebels in Colombia's cocaine-producing southeastern jungle killed four soldiers from an elite counter-guerrilla unit and left another one missing, military officials said Tuesday.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday that he won't stand in the way of a close ally in next year's election, despite efforts by his backers to amend the constitution to let him seek a third term.
Soldiers at a rural roadblock on Tuesday shot and killed the husband of an indigenous leader who has organized anti-government marches.
A rose-laden U.S. cargo plane headed for Miami crashed before dawn Monday near Colombia's capital, killing a father and son in their home on the ground, Colombian aviation officials said.
Could Ingrid Betancourt become Colombia's next president?
A meal was rice and beans. Bed was the ground under a patched plastic tarp. They bathed in rivers, and when they weren't chained by the neck to trees, they were forced on long marches to new hideouts under the jungle canopy.
Colombia's chief prosecutor ordered the arrest Thursday of a cashiered navy rear admiral on charges he helped drug traffickers.
A retired army general has been arrested in the disappearance of 11 people during the army's 1985 retaking of the Palace of Justice from leftist rebels, one of the darkest chapters in Colombia's modern history.
Leftist rebels tried to kill President Alvaro Uribe several times while he was running for office, including with a bomb that badly battered his armored car, according to documents the government released Monday.
A top rebel leader was killed by his own chief of security, who gave Colombian troops the leader's severed hand as proof, the defense minister said Friday.
Ingrid Betancourt was smiling ear to ear. It was 1998, and she had just emerged as the biggest vote-getter in Colombia's congressional elections.
A former presidential candidate held by leftist rebels describes in an emotional letter how she has lost her hair, appetite and hope after nearly six years constantly on the move in Colombia's jungles.
Brazilian regulators gave the go-ahead Tuesday for Spain's Telefonica SA and its Italian partners to buy a controlling stake in Telecom Italia SpA, removing a major hurdle to the $5.8 billion deal.
Brazil police have formally accused a brother of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of influence peddling after a nationwide crackdown on illegal gambling, the government news agency said Tuesday.
Indian rights groups are criticizing Pope Benedict XVI for insisting that Latin American Indians wanted to become Christian before European conquerors arrived centuries ago.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took steps Friday to let Brazil buy an inexpensive generic version of an AIDS drug made by Merck & Co. despite the U.S. drug company's patent.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to use his second term to fuel economic growth and rein in gang-related violence, while improving social programs that have helped ease the huge gap between Brazil's rich elite and its poor masses.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a wide lead over challenger Geraldo Alckmin heading into Sunday's runoff election, according to polls released Thursday.
Authorities said Sunday there were no survivors among the 155 people aboard the Brazilian jetliner that crashed deep in the Amazon jungle in the nation's worst air disaster, as rescue workers began pulling bodies out of the twisted wreckage.
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