The kidnapping of a military general by FARC rebels operating in Colombia’s Pacific state of Choco — which led to the suspension of peace talks with the government — has shone a spotlight on the ...

Inhabitants of Colombia’s western Choco province have been on strike for days to demand improvement of their unbearable living conditions. Here is why. For decades, if not centuries, the province has ...

CONDOTO, Colombia (Reuters) - More than a hundred residents of Colombia's northwestern municipality of Condoto gathered over the weekend to plead with government officials for help amid fighting ...

Thousands of miles and an ocean away from home, Maryury Mosquera Palacios brimmed with passion as she described what it means to be a guardian of the Atrato River in Colombia's Chocó bioregion. "The ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. From a distance, it looked like a game of baseball, but the reality is that the fighters were training because war could be just around the corner ...

Warnings that Colombia’s bilateral ceasefire with the ELN guerrilla group could crumble because of violence in a criminal hotbed could be exaggerated, but the peace negotiations between Colombia’s ...

Landslides in Colombia’s northwestern area of Chocó have killed at least 37 people, authorities from the Prosecutor’s Office told CNN en Español on Saturday. The latest report did not say how many had ...

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a climate change mechanism proposed by the U.N., has been widely lauded for its potential to simultaneously deliver a variety of benefits ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. Joel Palacios says he used to have it all — a well-paying government job that let him travel across Colombia, the respect of everyone ...

Andrea Tovar, the representative of the Pacific Choco province, won the 2015 Miss Colombia beauty pageant on Monday. Tovar is an Industrial Design student and lives in the capital Bogota. The new Miss ...

A UNHCR mission just returned from the north-west of Colombia reports a very worrying deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Chocó region. This part of Colombia is located along the ...