Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Tuesday that he would call a national referendum so that voters can weigh in on his ...

Drug-running guerrillas have repelled military efforts to retake a slice of southwest Colombia -- a virtual microstate where ...

which he says are necessary to fight deep inequality and lower poverty. "Let the people decide," Petro, Colombia's first leftist president, told reporters. The long-stalled reform to the health ...

Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S. The migrants fled conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in ...

The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison, in exchange for unpaid community ...

Life in Micay Canyon is dangerous and expensive, and poverty is pervasive -- despite ... For researcher Juana Cabezas of the NGO Indepaz, "Colombia has not returned to the old days" of a decades ...

Crime, violence and poverty are often depicted in films about Latin America. But Latin American Film Festival of Dallas ...

Every day, the country hits a new low. The sad incident involving the hijacking of the Jaffar Express and subsequent actions, including a cleanup operation is the latest in a long list of lows! And, ...

Pope Paul VI With his trip to Colombia in 1968 ... he went to the municipality of Mosquera where he met with the poor and celebrated a Mass for the workers, entrepreneurs and university students ...