People displaced by violence in towns across the Catatumbo region line up to register for shelter at a stadium in Cúcuta, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. Fernando Vergara/AP ...

Situated on the border with Venezuela, Cucuta is now a temporary home to 27,000 of the people displaced in the current spate of violence. In response to the conflict, the General Santander Stadium ...

More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian ...

Over the past week, Catatumbo — named after the river that snakes through it — has been ripped by the most intense outbreak of violence in a decade.

More than 32,000 people have fled to towns in northeast Colombia as they attempt to escape a sharp rise in fighting between militant factions, according to the country’s Ombudsman Iris Marín.

Cristian Herrera, in Cucuta in February 2025, describes the dangers of being a reporter in Colombia's Catatumbo region: Journalists "can't talk about the armed conflict. ...

The Relámpago del Catatumbo (Catatumbo lightning) is a nearly ceaseless lightning storm in Venezuela.Key FactsThe Relámpago del Catatumbo occurs at the mouth of the Catatumbo river where it ...

Located over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, it's named for the Catatumbo River, which meets the lake around where the storms form. It's even become a bit of a tourist attraction.

People displaced by violence in towns across the Catatumbo region take shelter at a soccer stadium in Cúcuta, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025.