On the Guajira Peninsula, at the northernmost tip of South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks.

MIAMI - Tropical Storm Julia formed off the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia. As of 11 a.m., the center of the system was about 110 miles west of the northern tip of the Guajira Peninsula. The storm was ...

The strategic Colombian peninsula of La Guajira, a sought after departure point for drugs heading across the Caribbean, may be up for grabs once more with the arrest of the gang leader who controlled ...

La Guajira, the oft-forgotten, arid northeast corner of Colombia is one of Colombia’s most contentious and provides a window into the complexity of the current battles underway between organized ...

Some communities in La Guajira say they have not seen any rain in two years Nine people have been injured in clashes between police and residents of Colombia's northern La Guajira province demanding ...

Locals often have to walk a long way to fetch water in La Guajira Water is as vital as it is scarce in the Alta Guajira region of north-eastern Colombia. It has been three years since its 200,000 ...

Synonymous in Colombia with extreme poverty and abandonment, the peninsula of La Guajira faces drought and coal dust pollution from one the world’s biggest coal mines. One of the main gateways for ...

One of the three 49-meter blades under construction at the Guajira-1 wind farm at the end of October 2021 Looking like huge, beached white whales in an arid landscape, the wind turbine’s blades lie on ...

The Cerrejon mine train carrying coal ore to the Puerto Bolivar terminal in front of the Guajira 1 wind farm at Cap de la Vela, Guajira region, Colombia, January 6, 2024. VICTOR RAISON The El Cerrejon ...