Standing next to her makeshift home of scrap metal, wood and plastic tarp, 47-year-old Nelly Mengual recounts how severe flooding and winds tore off her roof a few months ago, leaving her knee-deep in water in her home.

A growing number of Latin American migrants who have given up hope of reaching the United States are returning to their home countries in South America through a sea route in Panama, which poses new risks,

Venezuela's Bolivarian regime Monday reopened the borders with Colombia and Brazil it had closed ahead of Friday's inauguration of Nicolás Maduro as President for a third consecutive six-year term.

Back, a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in political science, initially approached the CFD with the idea of covering the Venezuelan displacement crisis through a photojournalistic piece and said she wanted to capture the lives of migrants through the objects they were carrying.

The world’s oldest guerrilla movement is close to gaining full control of a cocaine industry heartland in eastern Colombia through a surprise offensive that started just five weeks ago.

The balance of power in Colombia’s criminal underworld is in flux, as turbulent shakeups see major criminal players competing for control over key territories.

They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S. Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants have given up after President Donald Trump’s

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Luciane Mengual, 22, an Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community, poses with her baby at home in the Villa ...