A Tri-Border Town Built on Timber. Nestled on a bend of the Yavarí River near the Colombia and Brazil borders, Peru’s Islandia sits on an ideal corner for receiving boatloads of wood. “In Islandia ...

Coca growing in Peru’s Amazon first took hold further south of the tri-border, in the Upper Huallaga Valley, which extends for 322 kilometers along the Huallaga River in central Peru.In the early ...

Peru and Colombia are the world's largest producers of both coca leaf and cocaine, according to the United Nations. Figueroa estimated that current coca crops could have produced some 870 tons of ...

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru's northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has updated its travel advice for Peru after the Peruvian government declared a 30-day State of Emergency in the regions of Lima, the country’s ...

The British government has issued new guidance for UK tourists travelling to popular South American destinations ...

Lucía lives in Peru, in one of more than 50 indigenous communities along the Putumayo, an Amazonian river that marks the border between Peru and Colombia.

The real news behind South America's latest border fracas is Colombia's looming victory in its own narcotics-powered civil war. This is a victory Colombia's chief international antagonist, Venezuelan ...

Health officials on Colombia’s side of the Darien Gap – the region and dense jungle on the border with Panama – are increasingly dealing with migrant children’s physical and mental health issues. The ...

Foreign Ministers Laura Sarabia of Colombia and Elmer Schialer of Peru announced the full normalization of diplomatic relations Friday. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Largest-ever "narco sub" intercepted off Colombia 00:45. Peruvian anti-drug police seized 58 one-kilogram packages of cocaine Thursday bearing pictures of a Nazi flags on the outside and the name ...