SANTA ROSA, Peru (AP) — A remote island on the Amazon river — now the subject of a territorial dispute between Peru and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

Tensions between Colombia and Peru have risen following a series of incidents in the disputed area of Santa Rosa de Loreto, ...

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

The government of Gustavo Petro moved Colombia’s Independence Day celebrations to Leticia amid a territorial dispute with ...