Named after a 16th century saint, Santa Rosa has no running water or sewage system for its 3,000 residents, who build their ...

The Colombia-Peru border dispute exposes how imperialist powers and local elites exploit nationalist chauvinism to suppress ...

Named after a 16th-century saint, Santa Rosa has no running water or sewage system for its 3,000 residents, who build their ...

Gustavo Petro gave his Independence Day speech in the port of Leticia, across from a disputed enclave on the Amazon River, ...

Peru maintains it owns Santa Rosa Island based on treaties about a century old, but Colombia disputes that ownership because the island had not yet emerged from the river at the time.

Reaching the island takes a two-hour flight from Colombia’s capital, Bogota, followed by a five-minute boat ride. In contrast, the trip from Peru’s capital, Lima, involves a two-hour flight ...

Daniel Quintero, former mayor of Medellín, raised the Colombian flag in the Peruvian locality of Santa Rosa de Loreto ...

Tensions between Colombia and Peru have risen following a series of incidents in the disputed area of Santa Rosa de Loreto, ...

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

A war of words is playing out between Colombia and Peru as the countries’ presidents — both sagging in popularity at the end of their terms — battle over which nation owns a tiny island in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro stirred up a decades-old border controversy with Peru on Tuesday when he accused it of fully annexing an Amazon river island that has ...