Colombia

In the decades since Pablo Escobar’s death, the city of Medellin has transformed into a global tourism hot-spot and is now Colombia’s Sin City.

Colombia’s most sought after drug lord has been captured.

More than 200 people died after a river burst its banks, sending a deluge of mud and debris coursing through a town of 40,000 people.

Brazil has begun three days of national mourning after a charter plane carrying one of its top football teams crashed into the Colombian mountains, killing 75 people on board and leaving six survivors.

Pregnant women are advised to avoid countries that have seen outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which doctors are linking to unusually high numbers of babies born with brain defects.

Despite a peace deal in a war that has already cost over 200,000 lives, drug violence continues in Colombia. Grieving families now hope forensics can give answers as they search for lost loved ones.

As peace appears to be in sight, Channel 4 News goes in search of what could prove the largest mass grave in Colombia, a country where 220,00 people have been killed over the last half century.

A teenage mother and her young son are found alive and virtually unscathed five days after the plane they were travelling in crashed in a jungle area of Colombia.

A cameraman for a Colombian TV crew is flung into the air while filming a fire at a fireworks factory in Granada.

A man is found in the Pacific Ocean off Columbia days after his boat capsizes in bad weather. Solano Salazar stayed afloat using a piece of flotsam until rescuers arrived, Reuters reports.

Dressed to impress? Or dressed for pure stress? Colombia’s female cycling team have defended their new “see-through” uniform.

The barrios of Medellin are controlled by criminals and are full of prostitutes, with virgins commanding the highest prices. Guillermo Galdos meets one woman who fears for her daughter’s future.

Days before England began their defence of the World Cup in Mexico, their captain was arrested in Colombia on suspicion of stealing a bracelet. ITN’s Gerald Seymour spoke to him after his release.

The family of a British teenager who has died, reportedly after taking a drug in a tribal ritual in Colombia, say they are “exceptionally sad” at the loss of their “polite, popular” son.

A Colombian friend once told me with no hint of irony, that any love affair with Latin America required some kind of relationship with Gabo, writes Thom Walker.