Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Friday that the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel was the “head of the ELN” guerilla group whose recent turf war over trafficking routes has killed dozens ...

However, this war against the state took its toll on the Medellín Cartel. Escobar’s key ally, Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, alias “El Mexicano,” was shot and killed by the Colombian police in mid-December ...

Polls opened Sunday across Ecuador in a presidential election amid a rise in cartel turf wars and soaring murder rates. The ...

Ecuador's dueling presidential hopefuls made a last-ditch pitch to late-deciding voters Thursday, wrapping a bitter campaign ...

Some 14 million Ecuadorans will go to the polls Sunday to decide who will lead their violence-wracked Andean nation through ...

“The ELN has chosen the path of war, and that’s what they will get ... their methods to those of Pablo Escobar, the infamous cartel leader who bombed government buildings and murdered ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro ... “The ELN has chosen the path of war, and that’s what they will get,” Petro wrote in a message on X, in which he accused the rebels ...

Colombian president Gustavo Petro warned on Monday that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a wave of ...

Some 14 million Ecuadorans will go out to vote Sunday to decide who will lead their violence-wracked Andean nation through its worst crisis in half a century. Sixteen candidates are vying to become ...

TIBú (COLOMBIA ... years of war. The ELN had also clashed with the Clan del Golfo, a right-wing paramilitary force turned trafficking gang which is the country's largest cocaine cartel.