He arrived at this town on the edge of guerrilla territory with his entourage. They included a producer, a sound man, two scantily clad dancers and a harried servant, who carried his cowboy hat, his snakeskin boots, his tequila and, of course, his...

A status update nobody wants to see: Three Colombian teenagers have been killed after their names appeared, along with 97 others, on a multipart “hit list” posted on Facebook, according to multiple international reports. Even more...

At least 32 people were injured over the weekend when the platform they were standing on collapsed during a bullfighting festival in El Bagre, a town in the northwestern Colombian province of Antioquia, officials said. No one was seriously injured in...

One inmate was killed and 19 others were wounded in clashes Monday at a prison in the southwestern Colombian city of Cali, but authorities have regained control of the facility, officials said. Groups of inmates in a cell block at the prison in...

Colombia’s military says air and ground assaults on two rebel camps have killed 18 insurgents and captured 13. An attack by guerrillas a few hours earlier killed a soldier and a teenage girl elsewhere in the country. The Defense Ministry says the...

A former leftist guerrilla clinched victory in Uruguay’s presidential run-off election on Sunday, but he did it by moving hard to the center and purposely distancing himself from Venezuela’s radical leftist President Hugo Chávez. José...

In a private ceremony, the American ambassador, William Brownfield, and three Colombian ministers signed an agreement on Friday to expand Washington’s military presence.

Human rights groups accused the administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday of endangering the lives of activists by suggesting they are linked to leftist rebels. Directors of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, Refugees...