The kidnapping of a military general by FARC rebels operating in Colombia’s Pacific state of Choco — which led to the suspension of peace talks with the government — has shone a spotlight on the ...

CONDOTO, Colombia (Reuters) - More than a hundred residents of Colombia's northwestern municipality of Condoto gathered over the weekend to plead with government officials for help amid fighting ...

Inhabitants of Colombia’s western Choco province have been on strike for days to demand improvement of their unbearable living conditions. Here is why. For decades, if not centuries, the province has ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. From a distance, it looked like a game of baseball, but the reality is that the fighters were training because war could be just around the corner ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Landslides in Colombia’s northwestern area of Chocó have killed at least 37 people, authorities from the Prosecutor’s Office told CNN en Español on Saturday. The latest report did not say how many had ...

Choco, the remote jungle region where the FARC guerrillas captured a prominent Colombian general, is resource-rich, cash-poor and one of the areas hardest hit by 50 years of conflict. The densely ...

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a climate change mechanism proposed by the U.N., has been widely lauded for its potential to simultaneously deliver a variety of benefits ...

Andrea Tovar, the representative of the Pacific Choco province, won the 2015 Miss Colombia beauty pageant on Monday. Tovar is an Industrial Design student and lives in the capital Bogota. The new Miss ...