Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a ...

Peru maintains it owns Santa Rosa Island based on treaties about a century old, but Colombia disputes that ownership because ...

Gustavo Petro gave his Independence Day speech in the port of Leticia, across from a disputed enclave on the Amazon River, ...

The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro escalated a diplomatic conflict with Peru on Thursday by accusing Lima of violating border ...

The government of Gustavo Petro moved Colombia’s Independence Day celebrations to Leticia amid a territorial dispute with ...

From century-old disputes to recent conflicts sparked by natural resource discoveries, territorial disagreements remain a ...

"Colombia does not recognize Peru's sovereignty over the so-called Santa Rosa Island and does not recognize the de facto authorities imposed in the area," President Gustavo Petro said Thursday in a ...

A bus traveling from Lima to Peru’s Amazon region has overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 ...

By Aimee Gabay More than 130 Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon were left isolated after a severe drought caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving families with little food ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, geography, religious beliefs and logistics make getting COVID-19 vaccines extremely difficult. But health care workers have not given up.