There's something about Colombia that gets under your skin. It's not just a destination you visit and forget about. It's a ...

Five years ago the hillside slum of Comuna 13 was the most brutal urban battleground in Latin America, a bloody microcosm of Colombia's drug-fueled civil war. Left-wing guerrillas, right-wing ...

Above the entrance to our hotel waved a flag that read: Santa Marta Corazón del Mundo 500 Años. I asked the security guard about it. “This year we’re celebrating the city’s 500th anniversary,” he said ...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — A decade ago, the Bosa slum was the black hole of Bogota. Its darkest corner was Laurel Park, a grassless, trash-strewn lot with open sewage and gun-toting gangs bent on muggings ...