Residents point to bullet holes and boarded windows and say the situation now feels “just like Venezuela.” Migrants who fled violence say gangs followed them into American cities. With landlords gone ...

But outside the big cities, the government has given up control of swaths of the country. Colombian guerrillas operate along the entire 2,219km border with Venezuela’s western neighbour and run ...

"The only thing I ask for is quiet," the heavily armed and masked Colombian troop commander whispers. "They have drones, it's dangerous," he says, before waving us forward as we began a night mission ...