Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a ...

Peru maintains it owns Santa Rosa Island based on treaties about a century old, but Colombia disputes that ownership because ...

The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.

The government of Gustavo Petro moved Colombia’s Independence Day celebrations to Leticia amid a territorial dispute with ...

Hopes among foreign energy companies that Colombia's coast could serve as a key source of oil and gas for the future are ...

Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network fueling illicit gold mining in the Amazon ...

From century-old disputes to recent conflicts sparked by natural resource discoveries, territorial disagreements remain a ...

Eight people were killed and two others wounded when a group of gunmen opened fire on a crowd outside a nightclub in a town ...

In 2017, as part of an international treaty, Mexico started phasing down mercury production and eliminating its use in gold ...

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was sentenced by a judge on Friday to 12 years of house arrest for abuse of process ...

Coussins herself embraced such contestation by campaigning for changes like “student representation on the Senate,” and being particularly active in the “women’s movement”. She arrived in Cambridge at ...

Tougher regulatory framework have quickly undermined hopes that Colombia's Caribbean coast could be an energy hub for the ...