Colombia’s government has applied to join a China-based development bank. It's another sign of Latin America’s drift away from the U.S. as the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts, trade barriers a

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has formalized his country’s entry into China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or New Silk Road, a sprawling geoeconomic development project that already includes over 140 countries.

Colombia formally agreed on Wednesday to join China's vast Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, as Beijing draws Latin America closer in a bid to counter the United States.

China and Colombia have signed a joint cooperation plan on the Belt and Road Initiative, state media said on Wednesday after their leaders met in Beijing.

The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction.