Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a powerful rebel group from the field.

Special forces deployed to province engulfed in a war between armed groups over control of cocaine province. Dozens of civilians have been killed and thousands forced to flee.

Petro, who is up for reelection in 2026, donned the presidential sash with the intention of bringing peace to Colombia at the negotiating table. His plans in ruins, and having failed to bring peace to the country as a diplomat, he may well end his turn attempting to bring peace as a general.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the ELN, the country’s largest guerilla group, of committing ‘war crimes’ and declared on social media, “The ELN shows no willingness to make peace”

Move comes in response to ELN attacks in country’s northeast, which President Gustavo Petro describes as war crimes.

Colombia's government is reactivating arrest orders for the top leadership of the nation's largest rebel group.

Colombian authorities seized 8.2 tons of cocaine at a Pacific port, one of the largest seizures ever made in the country, President Gustavo Petro announced on Wednesday.

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The U.S. State Department also said that it would stop issuing visas to Colombian travelers until deportation flights resumed. Colombia received more than 120 deportation flights last year, but those were charter flights operated by U.S. government contractors.

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Omar Ambuila's daughter posted photos of herself carrying designer handbags, taking luxury vacations to Paris and driving a $330,000 Lamborghini.

President Gustavo Petro has declared a state of emergency and deployed the army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia, in response to a wave of violence, mainly due to the control of international cocaine trafficking.