Colombia

U.S. relations with Iran continued to unravel as South Africa went to the polls.

In Colombia, refugees are changing how cities work.

On the Podcast: A human rights activist describes life under Maduro.

For years, Colombians fleeing violence left for Venezuela. Now mass migration flows the other way.

A voluntary coca crop substitution initiative in Colombia is failing. It is still the country’s best option to address its cocaine production problem.

Some of Foreign Policy’s favorite reads of the year.

Victims of sexual violence and forced abortion during Colombia’s long years of conflict have yet to see justice.

Washington must help Bogotá shoulder the burden of refugees.

A temporary Taliban truce, despite the opportunity it presents, doesn’t mean peace is about to break out anytime soon.

Mainstream establishment parties across the continent have been replaced by populists offering easy and empty answers.

Some Colombians fear that their country could go the way of Venezuela.

Sunday’s election is widely seen as a referendum on the historic peace accord with the FARC.

As an era of peace approaches, both countries should take practical steps to strengthen the relationship.

Barack Obama did too little to curb the militant group, especially in Latin America. Donald Trump should do more.

The United States should help its Latin American ally become a member of the OECD.

Coffee as the conduit for memories of a military career

Eradication and interdiction are not foreign impositions, but essential pillars of any counternarcotics strategy, augmenting and working in concert with prevention and treatment-oriented policies.  

Can Pence keep Colombia from becoming another Venezuela?

With coca production rising, Venezuela melting down next door, and a Trump administration ambivalent about a peace deal with the FARC, the embattled Colombian president has a lot on his plate.

Donald Trump must help Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos keep the peace.