They were shackled and sent to Kinshasa by the Trump administration. Now they face a dangerous choice: Go back to Latin America or stay in Africa.

The unusual ruling came after the judge found that the Trump administration had most likely violated the law by deporting the 55-year-old woman to the African country despite its refusal to take her.

The Russian military’s progress has slowed to a crawl and Vladimir Putin appears to be under increasing pressure.

Dire conditions in Venezuela prompted an exodus. In the wake of the attack that ousted its top leader, the question is whether things have changed enough to make a return appealing.

Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild hippos, the offspring of the drug lord’s pets, dividing a town where hippos are the main draw.

Colombia is facing pushback over its plan to cull wild hippos, which are descendants of the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s personal pets. The hippos, which are native to Africa, have threatened local wildlife and human populations.

President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was shot in his bedroom in July 2021, but the convictions for conspiracy have not revealed who ordered his assassination.

In Cartagena, Colombia, historic buildings, including a monastery and a nightclub, were transformed into a Four Seasons.

The police are investigating the incident after a driver of a monster truck appeared to lose control of the vehicle after performing a stunt at an outdoor rally in Popayán on Sunday, killing three people and injuring 40 others.

The driver of the truck appeared to lose control of the vehicle after performing a stunt at an outdoor rally in Popayán.

Colombia was planning to slaughter 80 hippopotamuses after a small herd imported in the 1980s by the drug lord grew out of control. An Indian tycoon has offered them a new home instead.

And he’s basically fine with it.

The Trump administration was not invited to the gathering in Santa Marta, Colombia. A White House spokeswoman called the green transition “destructive.”

Three reporters followed supply chains to reveal that the U.S. Mint buys gold that comes from foreign pawn shops and drug dealers, then claims it is from the United States.

As prices for the precious metal soar, the industry’s guardrails have broken down.

We ended up in a Colombian mine controlled by a drug cartel.

We explore a Times investigation into the gold market.

Officers denied that an illegal, large-scale gold operation was underway within earshot of their posts. But we had seen it with our own eyes.

The U.S. Mint is legally required to sell only legal, domestic gold. Instead, it is the last link in a chain that launders foreign gold for an insatiable market. Our reporter Justin Scheck traced one such supply chain: from an illegal mine in Colombia all the way to the Mint’s facilities in West Point, N.Y.

Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.