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

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has visited an Amazon River island at the center of a territorial dispute with Colombia ...

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

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

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte visited Santa Rosa Island amid tensions with Colombia over territorial claims. President ...

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

Tensions between Colombia and Peru have risen following a series of incidents in the disputed area of Santa Rosa de Loreto, ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has stirred up a decades-old border controversy with Peru by accusing it of fully annexing ...

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

The Amazon River slinks through the northern jungles of Peru, rushing past the remotest corners of the earth alongside uncontacted tribes and rare wild animals. It continues up to Colombia's ...

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

Demister Riz Zambrano, age 25, is the leader of an evangelical community on the Amazon in Peru. Because of his religious beliefs, he is opposed to the COVID vaccination.