Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has visited an Amazon River island at the center of a territorial dispute with Colombia.

Named after a 16th-century saint, Santa Rosa has no running water or sewage system for its 3,000 residents, who build their ...

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

Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a ...

The Colombia-Peru border dispute exposes how imperialist powers and local elites exploit nationalist chauvinism to suppress ...

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.

Gustavo Petro gave his Independence Day speech in the port of Leticia, across from a disputed enclave on the Amazon River, ...

Daniel Quintero, former mayor of Medellín, raised the Colombian flag in the Peruvian locality of Santa Rosa de Loreto ...

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

The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.

Boluarte, Peru’s first female president, has faced investigations into protest deaths and alleged illicit enrichment.