Colombian President Gustavo Petro has suspended a rebel leader’s extradition to the United States, arguing that his presence i ...

The Everlasting Storm in Venezuela creates the world’s most intense lightning show. With over 1 million strikes yearly, it ...

Earth has some seriously wild natural phenomena that most people never get to see up close. Take the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, where lightning storms rage almost every night, flashing across ...

The country’s long-running conflict continues to impact life in many rural areas, which also face threats from illegal mining and other extractive industries.

Another unique feature of Lake Maracaibo is "Catatumbo Lighting", an atmospheric phenomenon characterised by almost continuous lightning that occurs where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake.

Colombia and Venezuela share a 2,219-kilometer border, about 375 kilometers of which are in the Catatumbo region, a poor, mountainous area with a limited presence of state authorities, where armed ...

According to science, the ice disk forms because the river's current and vortex under the ice cause the ice sheet to spin, forming a circle. Similar phenomenon has appeared on a river in Estonia in ...

I have dialogued with the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, to block the illegal crossings, especially in the Catatumbo River, and to take action with flights on both sides, we have the ...

More specifically, the activity occurs where Lake Maracaibo meets the mouth of the Catatumbo River. To understand this phenomenon, examining how lightning works is important.

Struggling after the collapse of Venezuela’s oil industry and under the weight of U.S. sanctions, the Maduro regime has become increasingly dependent on the drug trade.