Where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, lightning strikes up to 300 times a year for as many as 9 hours a night. "Catatumbo Lightning," also known as the Maracaibo Beacon, holds ...

The key to safely observing lightning storms is distance. By maintaining a minimum of six miles from the storm, you can ...

Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela Nestled in the northwest of Venezuela, Lake Maracaibo is a striking spectacle of nature known for ...

Located on Colombia’s border with Venezuela, the Catatumbo region has around 300,000 residents and produces 15% of Colombia’s coca crop. The FARC-EMC and the ELN have long battled for control ...

“I have been in dialogue with the holder of the presidency of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, to close the illegal (border) crossings, especially in the Catatumbo River (…) A bilateral action plan ...

The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence that has left at least 80 people dead and displaced thous ...

The death toll from attacks by a rebel group in Colombia's Catatumbo region has risen to ... in the region - which sits near the border with Venezuela - for years. The Ombudsman's Office said ...

Colombia is struggling to contain violence in the mountainous northeastern Catatumbo region ... Still, Petro's Venezuela gambit is fraught with potential pitfalls. Colombia's intelligence agencies ...

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a Trump administration official tasked with ...

Credit: AP/Mario Caicedo Located on Colombia’s border with Venezuela, the Catatumbo region has around 300,000 residents and produces 15% of Colombia’s coca crop. The FARC-EMC holdout group and ...

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela are heading home to the US, President Donald Trump announced Friday, after his envoy met with the country’s President Nicolás Maduro. The ...

The clashes in Catatumbo, in the north, on the border with Venezuela, come amid growing tensions between Mr. Petro and Mr. Maduro, who continues to provide safe haven to members of the ELN.