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

A Shaman blows into a conch shell during a ritual asking for protection from contamination, one day before Earth World Day, on San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru, April 21, 2023 ...

Peru maintains it owns Santa Rosa Island based on treaties about a century old, but Colombia disputes that ownership because ...

Video. Shamans in Peru have staged a traditional ritual in Lima to urge peace with Colombia amid a growing row over the ownership of Santa Rosa Island in the Amazon.

A group of Shamans from Peru on Monday performed a ritual to plead for good relations between Colombia and Peru, after a ...

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 ...

Criminals target foreigners through dating apps or at bars before drugging and robbing their victims, the announcement said.

Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay died Monday morning, Aug. 11, just over two months after being shot by a hitman, his wife, ...

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

Uruguay will vote this week on a "dignified death" bill that would legalize active euthanasia for adults with incurable ...

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