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.

The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their barracks for fear of snipers.

Colombia's record-high cocaine production is fueling instability, corruption, and violence, threatening the nation's economy and oil industry.

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

The cocaine was hidden in boxes of fruit. It traveled in commercial planes from Colombia and into the United States after a stop in Central America.

The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated, as intense fighting between two Colombian guerrilla groups erupted in the Catatumbo region, a key cocaine production hub and criminal hotspot along the Venezuelan border.

More than 32,000 people have fled the northern Colombian region of Catatumbo where two rival rebel groups are engaged in a bloody battle. At least 80 people have been killed over recent days amid the surge in fighting between rebels from the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

The unusually deadly violence delivers a devastating blow to the “total peace” program of the country’s first leftist president, Gustavo Petro.

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.

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Tens of thousands of refugees are fleeing one of Colombia’s biggest cocaine-producing regions to escape the most intense outbreak of violence since a 2016 peace deal.Most Read from BloombergHow Sanctu