In October 1985, guerrillas held three New Tribes missionaries based in Colombia hostage for 34 days before releasing them unharmed to delegates of a government-sponsored peace commission.

But the continuing development of Brazil’s interior has only aggravated the problem, as the advancing armies of road builders and jungle clearers encounter hitherto isolated tribes.

RIO DE JANEIRO — The lone survivor of an isolated tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, monitored and assisted from afar by the government for decades, looks healthy in a rare new video released this ...

As a candidate for the Colombian presidency in 2002, she was brave—or foolish—enough to campaign near the jungle stronghold of rebel paramilitaries. That’s when Ingrid Betancourt was taken ...

Hundreds of members of some of the world's last indigenous tribes still living cut off from the outside world have emerged from isolation to confront illegal mahogany loggers in Peru's ...

Four Indigenous children who disappeared 40 days ago after surviving a small plane crash in the Amazon jungle were found alive Friday, Colombian authorities announced, ending an intense search ...

An isolated Amazon tribe with no known contact with the outside world has been spotted by a drone flying over the Brazilian jungle, according to the country’s National Indian Foundation.