Colombia

The government has provided 28 new houses to families in Mocoa left homeless by the 2017 disaster. 

The team, who were working to obtain accounts of the situation along the Ecuador-Colombia border, vanished last week. 

Temple University professor and Colombian geographer Victor Gutiérrez is using a NASA-funded satellite imaging grant to pave the way for the future of biodiversity in his home country.

The paths that led their families to Colombia are diverse but they all had a common starting point in 1492.

A new NASA-funded project led by Temple University's Victor Gutierrez-Velez could shape the country's environmental policy for years to come. 

Backpacks, cars, panties, and tank tops are all getting the “bulletproof” treatment.

Manizales, Colombia"s "city of open doors," has brought the curtain down on the 62nd edition of its traditional, Spanish-inspired fair, a festival held annually in January.

For the 41st time, Gallup International has released their Global End of Year Survey, polling 55 countries on the topics of hope, happiness, and economic optimism. Three countries in Latin America made the Top Ten, but one country in the region scored in the bottom tier.

Just as Picasso portrayed the horror of the Spanish Civil War in his famous "Guernica" mural, artist Jorge Juan Aristizabal does so for the Colombian conflict in works that begin with a pencil sketch that he later fleshes out with different colors and, ultimately, to which he adds clippings from daily newspapers and album sheets.

The mission set out to reach the remote village of Tandil, where six people were killed and 20 others wounded last Thursday while protesting against the government's push to eradicate coca, the raw material of cocaine.

The Catholic pontiff concluded his four-day visit to Colombia by giving an open Mass in which he encouraged Colombian population to be involved in the peace process to help the country recover from its decades-long armed conflict with the FARC and other guerrilla groups. He also addressed the heavy polarization among Colombian society.

Girls of African descent will host Pope Francis next Sunday when he visits a poor Cartagena neighborhood that is the home of Talitha Qum, a program that seeks by means of religious faith to save little girls from the surrounding dangers of violence, prostitution and drugs.

Colombia is considered to be the country with the second most landmines in the world, following Afghanistan.

 As part of an effort to curb prison violence, the leftist government has imposed a militarized administration in roughly half of Venezuela's penal institutions. US Vice President Mike Pence said Monday in Cartagena, Colombia, that Venezuela is a failed state that threatens the security and prosperity of the entire hemisphere.