The Latest Breaking News from Gustavo Petro

More than 17,600 people are members of the four major armed groups and 23 gangs with which the Colombian government hopes to reach peace or surrender deals, two security agency reports seen by Reuters show.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has removed the national police director who had talked about using exorcisms to catch fugitives

Former Colombian President Ivan Duque warned on Friday that his successor’s decision to share intelligence information with Venezuela leaves his country vulnerable to espionage from Nicolas Maduro’s socialist regime, and could damage the longstanding cooperation between U.S. and Colombian agencies.

Colombia's government is set to send a pension reform bill to Congress on Wednesday that would widen coverage and strengthen the state pensions administrator, although analysts fear it could pose a risk to capital markets and public finances.

President Gustavo Petro confirmed the names of the four service people killed in the crash after footage appeared on social media showing the helicopter falling out of the sky in Colombia

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday said he had suspended a ceasefire with the Clan del Golfo, the country's largest criminal organization, because it had attacked police.

A buildup of methane gas has caused a series of mines in Sutatausa, a municipality in Colombia, to explode killing at least 11 workers, injuring nine and leaving 10 others trapped underground

A powerful explosion in a coal mine in central Colombia that affected four other mines linked by tunnels has killed at least 11 people and left 10 others missing

Dozens of police and oil workers taken hostage after protesters stormed a field operated by China’s Sinochem Group have been released, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said.