Named after a 16th century saint, Santa Rosa has no running water or sewage system for its 3,000 residents, who build their ...

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

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

Boluarte, Peru’s first female president, has faced investigations into protest deaths and alleged illicit enrichment.

The Colombia-Peru border dispute exposes how imperialist powers and local elites exploit nationalist chauvinism to suppress ...

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

Santa Rosa is a small island in the middle of the Amazon River. It has just one paved road, no running water and a health ...

P Kumaran will visit Colombia and Peru from August 21 to 26, 2025 to review various elements of growing bilateral relations. A MEA release said that during the visit, Secretary (East) is slated to ...

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Peru maintains it owns Santa Rosa Island based on treaties about a century old, but Colombia disputes that ownership because the island had not yet emerged from the river at the time.

As a diplomatic row between Peru and Colombia heats up, this group of shamans are performing a peace ritual in the hope of ...

In a post on X, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal, wrote, "Caring for each other as Global South partners - India dispatches 32 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Peru.