English

More about this topic

Colombia

Colombia honours decimated football team a year after plane crash

Panama

Panama on track for record illegal drug haul

Panama is on track to hit a record level of illegal drug seizures after authorities confiscated some 2 tonnes of cocaine near the country's border with Colombia.

Colombia

Colombia seizes $360 million-worth of cocaine in largest ever drugs haul

Police discovered 12 tonnes of the drug buried under banana plantations near to known smuggling routes.

Colombia

Juan Pablo Escobar opens up about the "ugly truth" about his father in exclusive interview

TV series like Narcos "glorify" the figure of Pablo Escobar says the drug lord's son

ADVERTISEMENT

World

'The worst violence imaginable': 'Cocaine king' Pablo Escobar's son opens up about his father

Thousands lost their lives on Escobar's route to the top of the Colombian criminal underworld. Euronews asks the infamous narcoterrorist's son what it was like to grow up with the world's richest drug lord

Colombia

Colombian officials double estimate of FARC holdouts resisting disarmament

Some 800 FARC fighters remain fully-armed and with illegal mining and cocaine production to support them, pose a threat to the peace deal, while criminals occupy areas vacated by former rebels.

Colombia

Colombia's ELN rebels to begin ceasefire

The commander of Colombia's Marxist ELN rebels has ordered his fighters to lay down their arms this weekend.

World News

Pope Francis suffers minor injury in Colombia

Pope Francis suffered a slight facial injuries after stumbling in the popemobile on last day of visit to Colombia

Colombia

Pope Francis holds mass for Colombia reconciliation

Pope Francis continued his tour of Colombia with a mass in the central city of Villavicencio, telling the crowd that peace without reconciliation would fail.

Colombia

Pope Francis urges Colombia to stay on the path of peace

Pope Francis spent his first full day in Colombia urging President Juan Manuel Santos and other political leaders to avoid vengeance following the country's decades-long civil war.

Colombia

Pope Francis treads political minefield on Colombian visit

With Colombia divided over the FARC peace process Pope Francis walks a fine line with his message of reconciliation.

Colombia

Thousands greet Pope Francis in Colombia

Pope Francis spoke to crowds gathered in Bogota in support of the peace deal brokered after over half a century of guerilla warfare

Colombia

Pope arrives in Colombia

Pope Francis is given a warm welcome by Colombia - the first visit to the country for 31 years

Colombia

Pope Francis flies to Colombia as the nation savours prospects for a peaceful future

With the FARC's 50-year guerilla war seemingly at an end, Pope Francis visits Colombia.

Colombia

Colombia's ELN rebels admit hostage killed in April

Colombia's ELN rebel group has admitted a Russian-Armenian citizen it held hostage for six months was killed in April.

Colombia

FARC rebels look to political future

Colombia's FARC rebels are now a political party. But the country's peace process is ongoing with hundreds of former Farc rebels still awaiting trial.

Colombia

Colombia's disarmed FARC rebels form political party

Colombia

FARC unveil new political party

Colombia's FARCrebels unveil new political party but acknowledge the system may be against them in coming elections

Colombia

Colombia's FARC completes disarmament

Colombia's FARC rebels have handed in more than 8,000 weapons as part of a UN-supervised disarmament process that concluded Tuesday

Colombia

Peace is possible in Venezuela says Pence