Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has stirred up a decades-old border controversy with Peru by accusing it of fully annexing ...

The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.

The government of Gustavo Petro moved Colombia’s Independence Day celebrations to Leticia amid a territorial dispute with ...

Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network fueling illicit gold mining in the Amazon ...

Digitalization has accelerated a move toward real-time payments for Latin American banks, along with a host of new capabilities.

From century-old disputes to recent conflicts sparked by natural resource discoveries, territorial disagreements remain a ...

While Disney’s Freakier Friday lost the global box office battle to Weapons, the belated sequel’s numbers should do just fine ...

Evangelical Christianity is spreading fast across the Amazon. The spiritual battle is reshaping the world’s biggest rainforest ...

Xavion Johnson secured the first medal for The Bahamas at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games in Asunción, Paraguay, winning a ...

In 2017, as part of an international treaty, Mexico started phasing down mercury production and eliminating its use in gold ...

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was sentenced by a judge on Friday to 12 years of house arrest for abuse of process ...