Hiram Remón, renowned for his encyclopedic knowledge of the vocal traditions of Latin America, passed at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY Saturday June 14 of natural causes. His death was confirmed by ...

1999: Horror writer Stephen King is hit by a van in Lovell, Maine. He suffers numerous injuries including a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp lacerations and a broken ...

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Colombia's ambassador to China first arrived in Beijing six decades ago and trained under Mao Zedong's revolutionary forces, before returning home to join a communist guerrilla group.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro blocked the extradition of a dissident ELN guerrilla chief to the United States. Consequently, Gabriel Yepes, a.k.a. “H.H.” can continue leading the peace process ...

Pope Francis, history’s first pope from the global south and a maverick who often delighted the world, died April 21 after fighting pulmonary disease for the last few months. Shortly before 10 a.m. in ...

Pope Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, the first man in 600 years to resign the pontificate, creating an unprecedented scenario of two popes living side-by-side in the Vatican — as Benedict himself ...

Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement, who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the ...

Colombia has experienced an upsurge in political and criminal violence over the past few months. In late February, the National Liberation Army (ELN) leftist guerrilla insurgent group carried out ...

Colombia was traditionally considered a top ally to Washington, D.C., in Latin America, and according to a Reuters report, the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement was responsible for a substantial ...

What happened. Fighting between two guerrilla groups in Colombia's northern region of Catatumbo has left 80 people dead and forced 18,000 to flee their homes, officials said Monday. It was some of ...