Early on in their accaimed TV series adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Netflix and Bogota-based producer Dynamo ("Narcos") set out to find Macondo. First, writers,

Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived in Haiti's southeastern city of Jacmel on Wednesday afternoon in a rare visit by a foreign head of state to the Caribbean nation, as Haiti endures an extended conflict with armed gangs.

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ Cogut Visiting Professor Camilo Umaña will give a talk on “Humanizing prisons. Practical lessons from Colombia’s policy making.”

Many people in Latin America and the Caribbean live in poverty. Wealth often stays with a few powerful families. Big companies take natural resources but

A growing consequence of President Gustavo Petro’s push to wean Colombia off fossil fuels is unfolding at a sprawling natural gas import complex on the nation’s coast.It’s there, along the Caribbean Sea near Cartagena,

Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and starts young. Data from UNICEF shows nearly two in three children aged 1–14 years in Latin America and the Caribbean face violent discipline at home.

In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of

The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence in Colombia’s Catatumbo region that has left at least 80 people dead and displaced thousands.

In many parts of the region, big companies take over lands for mining or farming. This forces farmers and indigenous people to leave their homes. These

With support from UTA Libraries, Yanina Blanco’s exhibits on the history of Cartagena, Colombia, are now accessible worldwide

Colombian president Gustavo Petro warned on Monday that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the