The Latest Breaking News from Gustavo Petro

President Joe Biden is set to host Colombian President Gustavo Petro for talks at the White House later Thursday

President Joe Biden will discuss Venezuela in wide-ranging talks with Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday, including U.S. willingness to further ease sanctions on the OPEC nation only in return for concrete steps toward free elections there, a senior administration official said.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has removed the national police director who had talked about using exorcisms to catch fugitives

Cross-border trade between Colombia and Venezuela has slowly opened up after the countries reengaged following years of bad relations.

Assailants carried out the attack on a military unit that was securing a pipeline. The violence undermines the efforts of Gustavo Petro to bring peace to the country.

Nine Colombian soldiers were killed in an attack by guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) near the country's border with Venezuela on Wednesday, throwing peace negotiations between the rebel group and the government into question.

Colombia risks losing U.S. support in its fight against drug trafficking because of rising coca output and a bill that could allow criminal gangs to surrender and be possibly pardoned, the Andean country's attorney general told Reuters in an interview.

Former Colombian President Ivan Duque warned on Friday that his successor’s decision to share intelligence information with Venezuela leaves his country vulnerable to espionage from Nicolas Maduro’s socialist regime, and could damage the longstanding cooperation between U.S. and Colombian agencies.

Colombia's government is set to send a pension reform bill to Congress on Wednesday that would widen coverage and strengthen the state pensions administrator, although analysts fear it could pose a risk to capital markets and public finances.