Latin America Daily Briefing

High-level discussions at the Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, in in Colombia begin today. Organizers said they were hoping the plans developed this week would be brought into the next COP climate summit in Turkey in November. (

At least 20 people were killed by an explosive device that impacted several vehicles, including a bus, traveling along the Panamerican Highway in Colombia’s Cauca region on Saturday. Government officials said it was a terrorist attack carried out by FARC dissident groups.

Cauca governor Octavio Guzmán described the bombing as the area’s “most brutal and ruthless attack...

The world’s first Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference, co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, starts today in Santa Marta, Colombia. It is a breakaway conference from the annual COP climate summit, a response to ongoing failures to reach a global agreement to phase out fossil fuels.

Last year in Brazil, frustrated at the lack of progress at COP30, where...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro will meet with Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas tomorrow, for key talks on border security and trade. It will be their first meeting, months after the U.S. military ousted former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January.

Colombia is lobbying to become a buyer of Venezuelan gas and last month sought an exempti...

A Salvadoran court began a collective trial of 486 alleged gang members, Monday. It is one of the biggest mass trials under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence through controversial emergency powers — which has been ongoing for four years.

The accused include members of the national MS-13 leadership known as the Ranfla Nacional, whom the govern...