The Latest Breaking News from Colombia

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high deforestation rates in the Amazon

Colombia's leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro named long-time politician and peace envoy Alvaro Leyva as the first member of his future cabinet on Saturday, ahead of Petro's August inauguration.

Under a new President, Colombia has an opportunity for stable growth after years of drug wars

Editorial: The emergence of a progressive politics in a country traditionally in the grip of the right should be welcomed

By Javier Hasse and Nicolás José Rodríguez.

Ultimate Sports, Inc. (OTCPK:USPS) entered into negotiations to acquire Sannabis S.A.S., a Colombian cannabis company. Sannabis, and affiliated companies, hold all four cannabis licenses: seed use, THC-cultivation, non-THC (hemp)-cultivation, and fabrication/export. Ultimate Sports, Inc. will acquire Sannabis S.A.S.

A Brazilian former prison gang is threatening to turn its neighbour into a narcostate and its deadly tentacles extend much further

Colombia’s president-elect Gustavo Petro is wasting no time in fulfilling his promise of normalizing relations between his country and the socialist regime in Caracas, discussing with Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro the reopening of the border between the two nations three days after winning the election.

Latin America's new "pink tide" is gaining pace after Colombia elected its first leftist leader Gustavo Petro, with Brazil expected to follow suit in elections in October, an echo of a regional political shift in the early 2000s.