Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced a plan Monday to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Wreckage after the explosion of a car bomb covers a toll area in Cucuta, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — One Colombian soldier was killed and another injured Thursday in clashes with guerrilla dissidents in a coca-growing region where their turf war with a rebel group has ...

In January, President Gustavo Petro cancelled peace talks with the ELN after an estimated 80 people were killed in rebel attacks in the northeastern Catatumbo region. Colombia’s military is now ...

Deep within Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo basin, where the Catatumbo River meets the lake, intense thunderstorms light up the sky as often as 260 nights a year. To understand how something as ...

Over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, a never-ending lightning storm lights up the sky. Warm, humid air from the lake collides ...

It is crossed by numerous rivers, streams and streams that give it a great water supply and the Catatumbo River that gives it its name, which runs throughout the subregion, from its source in the ...

Some families in Catatumbo have sought refuge in the forest ... something remarkable started happening at the River Tarra, a muddy strip dividing Colombia and Venezuela. For years, Venezuelans ...

Take the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, where lightning storms rage almost every night, flashing across the sky up to 260 times an hour—it's like nature’s own disco. Then there are the singing ...