Situated on the border with Venezuela, Cucuta is now a temporary home to 27,000 of the people displaced in the current spate of violence. In response to the conflict, the General Santander Stadium ...

People displaced by violence in towns across the Catatumbo region line up to register for shelter at a stadium in Cúcuta, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. Fernando Vergara/AP ...

Over the past week, Catatumbo — named after the river that snakes through it — has been ripped by the most intense outbreak of violence in a decade.

More than 32,000 people have fled to towns in northeast Colombia as they attempt to escape a sharp rise in fighting between militant factions, according to the country’s Ombudsman Iris Marín.

The largest numbers went to Cúcuta (20,300 people) and to Ocaña (12,097 people), a city in Catatumbo.. While most fled for fear of being targeted or caught in the crossfire, many had been ...

More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian ...

Cristian Herrera, in Cucuta in February 2025, describes the dangers of being a reporter in Colombia's Catatumbo region: Journalists "can't talk about the armed conflict. ...

Deadly Colombian narcos war flares up as military and guerrilla dissidents clash. The clash unfolded in a coca-growing region where a turf war has killed dozens of people this year ...

People displaced by violence in towns across the Catatumbo region take shelter at a soccer stadium in Cúcuta, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025.