In Colombia, riot police used tear gas and truncheons Wednesday to force more than 600 Indigenous families from their homes on privately owned land in the southern Amazonas region. The area is one of ...

Scientists found a red animal with a “powerful sting” in the Amazon rainforest and discovered a new species. Photo shows a representative area. Photo from Conscious Design via Unsplash Buried in the ...

The purpose of the trip was to conduct qualitative research on how mineral deposits have been researched, quantified and commodified in Colombia. Between 2012 and 2013, the National Mining Agency (NMA ...

EL PLATEADO/SAN JUAN DE MICAY, Colombia (Reuters) -The dilapidated, tin-roofed schoolhouse sits perched amid fields of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, in the small southwestern Colombian town of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela that has been racked in recent days by a deadly ...

Police in Brazil have strong evidence that an alleged drug trafficker ordered the murders of a British journalist and an Indigenous activist in the Amazon last June, a police chief said on Monday.