Colombia

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Mainstream establishment parties across the continent have been replaced by populists offering easy and empty answers.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

In the middle of a wave of scandals and just ahead of Trump’s big foreign trip, Juan Manuel Santos brings a wish list to the White House.

A conversation with Juan Carlos Pinzoń, the Colombian ambassador to the United States.

Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar. Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ was released. But what else happened this past year that calls for celebrating?

From Mitt Romney to Marine Le Pen, Italian politics to a Colombian peace deal, here's what happened in the world this weekend.

The opposition may want peace deal negotiations to continue, but Colombia's government has other ideas.

Here's the rundown of what happened this past weekend and what to look for this week while you sip your Monday morning coffee.

The FARC has no legitimate claim to its blood money stashed abroad.

FP staffers talk about their reporting on the ground in South Sudan and Colombia and how war crimes, revolution, women, and Washington all played a role in those countries’ faltering peace processes.