Police patrol in Tibu, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, following guerrilla attacks that have killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Catatumbo region.
There's a place on Earth where lightning flashes almost every night—until, one day, it stopped. What causes the Catatumbo ...
In this article I invite you to the subregion of “Catatumbo”, from the amazement and fatigue in the face of the conflict that does not cease but also to the hope and commitment for a necessary but so ...
Take the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, where lightning storms rage almost every night, flashing across the sky up to 260 times an hour—it's like nature’s own disco. Then there are the singing ...
The screenshot, with precise coordinates, shows what Petro claims is where the ELN launches attacks within the rural municipality of Tibú and along the Catatumbo River. The top-secret image was given ...
Ball Lightning Ball lightning is one of the most enigmatic weather phenomena known to man. It occurs globally, particularly during thunderstorms, and has puzzled scientists for centuries. Imagine a ...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared a state of emergency in Catatumbo region Friday in response to escalating violence between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and “dissident” factions of the ...
President Gustavo Petro has declared a "state of internal unrest" in Colombia's north-eastern Catatumbo region to address a surge in deadly violence between rival armed groups. This measure, last ...
Colombian Army commander Luis Cardozo walks past what the military says are members of holdouts from the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who surrendered to the Army after ...
Instead, guerillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Greater Central State (ECM) touched off a brutal war last week in Catatumbo, forcing thousands of local residents to flee to ...
The conflict in the rural Catatumbo region, where the Colombian state has struggled for decades to gain a foothold, has left at least 80 people dead and 40,000 others displaced over the past 10 ...
Since January 16, the guerrilla group ELN and offshoots of the former militant organization FARC have been clashing in the rural Catatumbo region in northeast Columbia, near the border with Venezuela.